Episode 8: Charles Farrell’s (Low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob

from Lit NYC · host Harry Siegel

Jazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too.

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