As the story unfolds we learn a lot about all three. He learned how to play the clarinet and immersed himself in the jazz world of the 1920s, a world that, for him, revolved around three big Ms – musicians, mobsters and marijuana. A wild child from the beginning, he landed in reform school at the age of 15 where he discovered and became completely enamored of black culture in general and New Orleans jazz in particular. Mezzrow, a white Jewish kid, was born in 1899. So says Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow in the opening chapter of his strange but fascinating autobiography, Really the Blues. “Poppa, have you got any idea how a man took to jazz in the early days? Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars, digging the riffs the wheels were knocking out when he rode the rods – and then all of a sudden picked up a horn and began to tell the whole story in music? I’m going to explain that.” It’s “Lost in the Stacks” week, and Bud is back with another post:
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Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough’s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. 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Whitaker also wrote the very first Doctor Who novelisation – Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks. Yowzer! That’s just brilliant! They just looked amazing! You just thought wow! They can get anywhere!’ ‘In Evil of the Daleks you got to see a Dalek in a Victorian house. This classic 7-parter has been praised by current Executive Producer and Lead Writer Steven Moffat who revealed it was one of his favourite stories. He also wrote The Wheel in Space (which introduced companion Zoe) and the Daleks’ final story of the 60s, The Evil of the Daleks. His later scripts included the Second Doctor’s first adventure, The Power of the Daleks, a crucially important story where for the first time ever, viewers were confronted by a Doctor who was someone other than the familiar William Hartnell. He wrote the third adventure, The Edge of Destruction and later penned The Rescue, the first adventure to introduce a new companion since the show’s debut episode. 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