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Really the Blues
Really the Blues
Author: Bernard Wolfe, Mezz Mezzrow
"Really The Blues" is the story of a white kid who fell in love with black culture, learning to blow clarinet in the reform schools, brothels and honky-tonks of his youth. Drawn by the revelation of the blues, he followed the music along the jazz avenues of Chicago, New Orleans, and New York, and into the heart of America's soul. Told in the jiv...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780806512051
ISBN-10: 0806512059
Publication Date: 12/1/2001
Pages: 424
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Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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This is an absolutely wonderful book! There's music and poetry and rhythm in ever sentence. Reading it gets you so wound up and excited and passionate about everything in life. It's pretty hard to get a hold of a copy but once you do you'll never want to get rid of it!
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