Milton Mesirow (November 9, 1899 – August 5, 1972), better known as Mezz Mezzrow, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois...

marijuana. Mighty Mezz An expertly rolled reefer. Named after Milton Mezz Mezzrow, the saxophonist who played with Louis Armstrong. Mezzrow was a close friend...

improvising, and rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register. Mezz Mezzrow recounted in his autobiography driving 53 miles to Hudson Lake, Indiana...

one and the three. Thus these sessions became known as "jam sessions." Mezz Mezzrow also gives this more detailed and self-referential description, based...

Wilson or Jelly Roll Morton. He also recorded for the Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet (Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, Fitz Weston, Pops Foster and Marshall). The Rough...

jazz singer, famous for his 1940s recordings with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow. He was born in Wallace, Louisiana, United States, and worked at Whitney...

as 1946, in Really the Blues, the autobiography of jazz saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow. The word appears in advertising spots for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th...

Benford, Jacques Butler, Benny Carter, Frank Goudie, Coleman Hawkins, Mezz Mezzrow, Bobby Nichols, Joe Turner, and Ray Ventura. Michel Laplace, "André Ekyan"...

from a script by Cecil Brown about 1930s jazz musician and drug dealer Mezz Mezzrow. Kaufman also stated around this time that he was working on an adaptation...

Marsala (1907–1978) Stan McDonald (born 1935) Hal McKusick (1924–2012) Mezz Mezzrow (1899–1972) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Marcus Miller (born 1959)...

to American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow. The band compiled expressions from Mezzrow's autobiography Really the Blues, which contains...

introduced Parisians to the music of Claude Luter, Boris Vian, Sydney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, and Henri Salvador. Most of the clubs closed by the early 1960s, as...

Buck Clayton, Wild Bill Davison, Wingy Manone, Joe Marsala, Art Hodes, Mezz Mezzrow, and George Zack. He recorded sparsely as a bandleader; his best-known...

France in 1932. He produced recording sessions in New York featuring Mezz Mezzrow and Tommy Ladnier from November 1938 to January 1939. During World War...

musicians such as Benny Goodman, Al Cohn, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Mezz Mezzrow, Barney Kessel, Doc Pomus, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry...

saxophonist Frank Teschemacher, guitarist Eddie Condon, clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, pianist Joe Sullivan, drummer Gene Krupa, and bassist and tubist Jim...

Teschemacher, Gene Krupa, Art Hodes, Bobby Hackett, Max Kaminsky and Mezz Mezzrow. Walking home from the last night of a job at the Pied Piper (where he...

in 1938. In New York, he played with Sidney Bechet, Joe Marsala, and Mezz Mezzrow. Later, Hodes founded his own band in the 1940s and it would be associated...

Orleans jazz and bebop, led by Sydney Bechet and trumpeter Boris Vian; Mezz Mezzrow, André Rewellotty, guitarist Henri Salvador, and singer Juliette Gréco...

term meaning down and out, or poor and exhausted. The jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow combined it with other words, like 'dead beat' ..." Ann Charters, The...

Taylor Manzie: Manzie Johnson Mash: Art Blakey Mex: Paul Gonsalves Mezz: Mezz Mezzrow Mick: Mick Mulligan Mickey: Mickey McMahan Midge: Midge Williams Miff:...

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jazz record he had heard in the mid-1930s by a group led by Chicago's Mezz Mezzrow, Shouting in that Amen Corner. In a Golf Digest article in April 2008...

Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn Miller, Eddie Condon, and Fats Waller. In 1931, Teagarden’s early...

Clarinet trio Clarinet-violin-piano Clarinet-viola-piano Clarinet-cello-piano Clarinetists Benny Goodman Category:Clarinetists by nationality Mezz Mezzrow...

magazine. In 1946 he collaborated with the jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow in writing Mezzrow's autobiography, Really the Blues. The book was a popular success...

1929–40 692 Willie "The Lion" Smith 1938–40 693 Benny Goodman 1928–31 694 Mezz Mezzrow 1936–39 695 Clarence Williams 1924–26 696 Sammy Price 1929–41 697 Fletcher...

Charles Messier – French astronomer, publisher of Messier's catalogue Mezz Mezzrow – American Jazz clarinettist and saxophone player Teresa Milanollo –...

with Jelly Roll Morton, Baby Dodds, James P. Johnson, Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, and Red Allen. He also toured and recorded with his wife, singer Blue...

Eddie Condon's just a few blocks away. Resident musicians from the 1940s Mezz Mezzrow (1943) James P. Johnson (1943) Art Hodes (1945–1949) J. C. Higginbotham...