Word: mezze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the band includes Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet), Jack Bland (guitar), George Lugg (trombone), and of course Hodes at the keys. It is interesting to note that all are veteran Chicagoans of the old school (Mezzrow, who was the original ringleader of that crowd, is now pressing 44 but still plays that highly controversial clarinet as agilely as he did 20 years...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...