Mezzrow was an early traditionalist: His love for jazz centered on New Orleans–derived music and swing, and stopped before bebop, then a current language. Then the curtains opened and instrumentalists or singers acted the parts of the performers mentioned, performing in the styles of the originals.” “He told how he had encountered different jazz players in different places. Mezzrow himself served as the narrator,” reported The New York Times the following day. On New Year’s Day of 1947, not long after Random House published Mezz Mezzrow’s memoir, Really the Blues, there took place at Town Hall a kind of musical-revue version of his life.
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