About this title: This is the story of a white boy who fell in love with black culture, learning the clarinet in the clubs frequented by Al Capone, accompanying Bessie Smith in her heyday - a white Jew exploring the world of jazz. It is a searching autobiography, written in the 1940s but with the directness and power of today's most streetwise language. The book tells of Mezz Mezzrow's tough experiences in reform school, his paranoia when he realizes he's been dating a big hoodlum's girl, and the nights spent on the bandstand and the days spent living outside America's conservative norms.
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Description: Garden City: Doubleday / Anchor, 1972. 348 pages. 1st Anchor edition. Mass Market paperback. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Good+. Solid book with edgewear, cover creases, and damp staining on the outside of the fore-edge. No names or markings. ISBN: 0385083246 A classic of Jazz and Beat literature, uncommon edition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Books
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. Unused, unmarked--a great one to collect. It's the one in the Amazon scan for this 1st pb edition. Free, automatic1st class upgrade for books under 14 ounces. Free Priority upgrade to all domestic orders over $20.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Edition: First edition, Thus
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Flamingo, London
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006546917ISBN:0006546919
Description: Very Good. 0006546919. Book has edge wear and very light toning to pages. 20 cm. Flamingo modern classic. This book has b/w illustrated cover with white title. Biography; Alibris.0017172; 404 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006546917ISBN:0006546919
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Payback Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780862419592ISBN:086241959X
Description: Acceptable. Bumping to edges. Internally Clean A usable copy. Please note that this book will show signs of wear and will have been extensively read but all pages will be in tact with it's binding secure unless stated. read more
Edition: New Revised Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell, NY
Date Published: 1946
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 1946 edition mass market paperback. 384 pp. Candid story of a clarinet player who spiked beer for Al Capone, smoked opium with the Purple Gang, peddled reefer in Harlem, married across the color line and headed a jazz record company. Cover has corner creases, page edges darkening. Read once; o/w VG. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SOUVENIR PRESS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780285638457ISBN:0285638459
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 416 pages. An unforgettable account of street life, the blues, roadhouses and clubs, and the rites of reefer culture. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. Jazz Book Club edition. Sturdy binding. Unmarked text. Heavily worn dust jacket with heavily soiled spine and edge wear, including two 1" tears (one repaired with clear tape). Pages lightly tanned. Lightly soiled page edges. ____________ Hardcover/dust jacket, Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Secker & Warburg, 1959, 388 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Jazz Book Club
Date Published: 1959
Description: Collectible; Very Good in Good jacket. VG-/VG-1959 JAZZ BOOK CLUB HARDBACK #16 WITH ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DJ. SUBLIME BLUES MEMOIR BY MEZZ MEZZROW, IN THIS LOVELY JAZZ BOOK CLUB EDITION WITH REINGANUM JACKET DESIGN. A LITTLE CORNER RUBBING TO OUTER EDGES OF DJ, PAGES A LITTLE DISCOLORED AT EDGES, INNERS AND BINDING VG. EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF JAZZ BOOK CLUB HARDBACKS AVAILABLE. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. Hardback in price-clipped dust jacket. Random House: 1946 Very good condition with only slightest wear, etc. No underlining, NOT EX-LIBRARY! ! ! read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1946
Description: Dust Jacket Included. Random House 1946 stated 1st ed. A bright, Fine copy in the uncommon dustjacket, which is VG-with a tiny bit of chipping to spine extremities. A very attractive item. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Flamingo, London
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006546917ISBN:0006546919
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. viii, 404p.; 20 cm. Flamingo modern classic.. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1946. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Citadel Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780806512051ISBN:0806512059
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Edgewear, no marks inside, binding tight. Cover is clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 424 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. Flamingo, 1993, 1st printing, 404 pages, a very nice trade paperback, tight and bright no owner's mark or underlining. read more
"A hugely enjoyable exercise in shameless self promotion. Lots of the claims Mezzrow makes for himself, he'd struggle to verify but its none the less entertaining for that.I can see why Waits (who I'm also a big fan of) likes it so much, I think its also the source of his lyric "Jim Crow's directing traffic with them cemetery blues""
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