{"product_id":"really-the-blues-9781590179451","title":"Really the Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eHailed as an \"American counter-culture classic, \u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e this \"funny\" and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eReally the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e--the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe--is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, \"the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590179451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180639027381,"sku":"9781590179451","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a496887e-2870-4e07-b2e9-80df40428b1d.jpg?v=1697517332","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/really-the-blues-9781590179451","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}