the jazz corner

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[Hermanthegerman]

Mezzrow became known as much for his cannabis advocacy as his music.[2] In his time, he was so well known in the jazz community for selling marijuana that Mezz became slang for marijuana, a reference used in the Stuff Smith song, "If You're a Viper".[10] He was also known as the Muggles King, the word muggles being slang for marijuana at that time; the title of the 1928 Louis Armstrong recording "Muggles" refers to this. Armstrong was one of his biggest customers.[11] A letter from 1932, written by Armstrong, demonstrates this relationship; while in England, Armstrong detailed in this letter about where and how Mezzrow should send marijuana.[12]

In 1940, he was arrested in possession of sixty joints while trying to enter a jazz club at the 1939 New York World's Fair, with intent to distribute. When he was sent to jail, he insisted to the guards that he was black and was transferred to the segregated prison's black section. In Really the Blues, he wrote:

Just as we were having our pictures taken for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery the deputy and I nailed him and began to talk fast. 'Mr. Slattery,' I said, 'I'm colored, even if I don't look it, and I don't think I'd get along in the white blocks, and besides, there might be some friends of mine in Block Six and they'd keep me out of trouble'. Mr. Slattery jumped back, astounded, and studied my features real hard. He seemed a little relieved when he saw my nappy head. 'I guess we can arrange that,' he said. 'Well, well, so you're Mezzrow. I read about you in the papers long ago and I've been wondering when you'd get here. We need a good leader for our band and I think you're just the man for the job'. He slipped me a card with 'Block Six' written on it. I felt like I'd got a reprieve.

 

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[Lehmi]

 

[da kine]

BILL EVANS - What more to say? A genius. But heroin (Schitzophrenia) did him in. A bad combination...

 

[Rgd]

Johnny Hartman sings Lush Life​

 

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[Cloneman]

 

[Chi13]

 

[Cloneman]

I saw WR a couple of times, incredible

 

[Lehmi]

I saw WR a couple of times, incredible

Still this band knows how to inspire highly motivated talents, musically fresh, the guitarist with unusual finger technique.

 

[Cloneman]

Up forward positive tune this is

 

[Mitsuharu]