As we all know, Rachel Dolezal was by no means the first white American to take on aspects of African-Americanness in her persona — calling Elvis, is anybody home? — although she will go down in ...

Mezzrow is the name of a jazz club in Greenwich Village that I frequent when I am in New York City. The club was named after a clarinet player, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, one of the more fascinating ...

Mezz Mezzrow was the hippest of white hipster jazz musicians in 1920s Chicago and 1930s New York. He was a respected player as well as a scenester who hung with both black and white musicians. Mezzrow ...

Anyone who has been near a computer, TV or any electronic gadget is probably familiar with the strange story of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP leader in Spokane, Wash., who is being accused of faking being ...

The address was 3503 S. State St., but Mezz Mezzrow thought he was in heaven when he met Sidney Bechet at the Deluxe Café. White and in love with the music born in Black communities in Louisiana, ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Mezz Mezzrow's birthday today! Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago in 1899 and was one of that city\'s most popular clarinetists during the golden jazz age of the twenties.

Early this year I was in New York and dropped by Mezzrow, a new jazz club in Greenwich Village. It is the sister club to the very hip Smalls Jazz Club, located less than a block away. When I am in New ...

Albert Goldman’s profile of “Harlem’s white jive-talking reefer man,” Milton “The Mezz” Mesirow (1899 – 1972), appeared in the November, 1977 issue of High Times. We’re republishing it below on the ...

'The white man is a spoiled child, and when he gets the blues he goes neurotic. But the negro never had anything before and never expects anything after, so when blues get him he comes out smiling and ...

One hundred years ago, the corner of Division Street and Western Avenue in Chicago was home to a less delicate sort of hipster than hangs out there today. Among the gangsters, bootleggers and pool ...