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Milton Mesirow, much better known as Mezz Mezzrow (9 November, 1899 - 5 August, 1972) was an American Jewish jazz clarinetist from Chicago, Illinois.He financed a recording session with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet session and recorded a number of times with Bechet. He briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong. He was so well known in the jazz community for selling marijuana that "Mezz" became slang for marijuana.
He praised and admired the African-American style. Mezzrow married a black woman and lived in Harlem. He called himself a "voluntary Negro". When he served a prison sentence for dealing marijuana, he insisted to the guards that he was a negro and was transferred to the negro section.
He is best known for his autobiography, Really the Blues, published in 1946.
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