{"product_id":"9781590179468","title":"Really the Blues","description":"Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in  reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved  from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars,  bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing  records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix  Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. \u003ci\u003eReally the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, the  jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with  the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe, is the story of an unusual and  unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across  racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an  individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a  jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180253233392,"sku":"9781590179468","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590179468_p0.jpg?v=1763806015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590179468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}