(1899-11-09)November 9, 1899 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died
August 5, 1972(1972-08-05) (aged 72) Paris, France[1]
Genres
Dixieland Mainstream jazz
Occupation(s)
Jazz clarinetist, saxophonist
Instrument(s)
Clarinet alto saxophone tenor saxophone
Musical artist
Milton Mesirow (November 9, 1899 – August 5, 1972),[2] better known as Mezz Mezzrow, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois.[1] He is remembered for organizing and financing recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. He recorded with Bechet as well and briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong. Mezzrow is equally known as a colorful character, as portrayed in his autobiography, Really the Blues (which takes its title from a Bechet composition), co-written with Bernard Wolfe and published in 1946.
Milton Mesirow (November 9, 1899 – August 5, 1972), better known as MezzMezzrow, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois...
marijuana. Mighty Mezz An expertly rolled reefer. Named after Milton MezzMezzrow, the saxophonist who played with Louis Armstrong. Mezzrow was a close friend...
improvising, and rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register. MezzMezzrow recounted in his autobiography driving 53 miles to Hudson Lake, Indiana...
one and the three. Thus these sessions became known as "jam sessions." MezzMezzrow 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, MezzMezzrow, Fitz Weston, Pops Foster and Marshall). The Rough...
as 1946, in Really the Blues, the autobiography of jazz saxophonist MezzMezzrow. The word appears in advertising spots for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th...
Marsala (1907–1978) Stan McDonald (born 1935) Hal McKusick (1924–2012) MezzMezzrow (1899–1972) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Marcus Miller (born 1959)...
jazz singer, famous for his 1940s recordings with Sidney Bechet and MezzMezzrow. He was born in Wallace, Louisiana, United States, and worked at Whitney...
introduced Parisians to the music of Claude Luter, Boris Vian, Sydney Bechet, MezzMezzrow, and Henri Salvador. Most of the clubs closed by the early 1960s, as...
in 1938. In New York, he played with Sidney Bechet, Joe Marsala, and MezzMezzrow. Later, Hodes founded his own band in the 1940s and it would be associated...
similar to Jerry Lee Lewis's raucous piano numbers of the 1950s. Like MezzMezzrow, Gibson consciously abandoned his ethnicity to adopt black music and...
playing with Lionel Hampton, and recorded in Paris in the mid-'50 with MezzMezzrow. Davenport played and recorded with the Count Basie jazz orchestra (1964–1966)...
term meaning down and out, or poor and exhausted. The jazz musician MezzMezzrow combined it with other words, like 'dead beat' ..." Ann Charters, The...
jazz record he had heard in the mid-1930s by a group led by Chicago's MezzMezzrow, Shouting in that Amen Corner. In a Golf Digest article in April 2008...
Taylor Manzie: Manzie Johnson Mash: Art Blakey Mex: Paul Gonsalves Mezz: MezzMezzrow Mick: Mick Mulligan Mickey: Mickey McMahan Midge: Midge Williams Miff:...
an example of an America without prejudice. In the 1940s and 1950s, MezzMezzrow, Symphony Sid, Red Rodney, and Roz Cron experimented with black identity...
He led another group of his own early in the 1950s, then played with MezzMezzrow in Europe in 1953. Fields stayed in Europe for more than a decade; he...
saxophonist. A native of Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, he worked with MezzMezzrow from 1951 to 1952 and Big Bill Broonzy in 1951. In 1954 he made Paris...
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