Word: mezzrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midweek, the U.S. jazzbos - Satchmo, Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow gets in some licks for his new book, Really the Blues. Critics: Guitarist Eddie Condon and Esquire's Leonard Feather...
...having blown the breath of life into that walloping organization, The Hot Club of France, and was instrumental in forming the French recording company called Swing. On his whirlwind visit to this country circa 1938, he did the spade work on Victor's re-issuing program, organized those lusty Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet sessions on Bluebird, and godfathered one of Basie's best waxings, the Panassie Stomp...
Biggest news of the moment is a gathering of the clan scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room from 4 to 7 o'clock. Charley Vinal's Rhythm Kings will be there and "Mezz" Mezzrow is planing in from New York where be is currently featured with Art Hodes at Ryan's on 52nd Street. Those who attend the Bates game in the stadium are cordially invited to drop over after the last whistle and hear Harvard's first big-time live jam session since last September...
Uptown local to 52nd Street, where Billy Holiday and Red Norvo are featured at the Downbeat, the Onyx has Lips Page and Stuff Smith, and the Eddie Heyward band alternates with Slam Stewart and Johnny Guarnieni at the Three Deuces, and of course Art Hodes with Mezzrow and Danny "Sister Kate" Alvin at Jimmy Ryan's ... Art says the Jazz Record is new in the black and continues to be the best magazine in the field ... We agree ... Ran into George Lugg and Vic Dickerson who is still with Eddie Heyward...