Sex and the Jazz Musician - The Hollywood Years and Beyond

Sex and the Jazz Musician - The Hollywood Years and Beyond is an intriguing glimpse into the life and times of "the world's greatest unemployed jazz clarinetist," the 80-year old Mort Weiss. Inspired by Mort's column on the popular website All About Jazz, The Mort Report, Sex and the Jazz Musician features 22 candid, poignant and ribald articles (of the 23 that are featured on the site), which are interspersed with brief pieces that provide context for Weiss' unique and creative narratives. Those tales take readers back in time to Mort's initial exposure to jazz, through his encounters with the famous (Elvis Presley, Steve Allen, Jimi Hendrix) and the infamous, detailing the highs and lows of his more than 60 years in and around the music business. As of December 2015, Mort's pieces on All About Jazz have received nearly 204,000 views.