"I finished writing down some of my notes in his charts as I was walking out of the room. As I was turning the corner someone ran into me in a hurry knocking me down. I fell flat onto my back dropping his chart as all the air momentarily left my body. After the initial shock I caught my breath and coherency only to be left in another state of shock. I wasn't sure if it was because I ran into Janet Jackson, or because my hearing aid fell out and broke......"

A tale of Jackie Cévon, an ambitious Jazz musician who rises in the undisputed suffrage of the Harlem Renaissance-aiming to take over the Harlem clubs in New York City, and changing the perception on Jazz while transgressing to be the world's greatest Jazz musician of all time.

🏆 Hit #1 Amazon Bestseller THE HARLEM PLUG Written By Harlem Holiday "To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." -Malcolm X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem. In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). After negotiating a deal with the Medellín Cartel, Fritz becomes New York's Cocaine Consignment King. The lucrative deal unlocks a lavish lifestyle with more money than Fritz's family and Harlem could've imagined. Now, distributing kilos of cocaine on a kingpin level to many well-known Harlem heavyweights, Fritz employs hundreds throughout the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring states. Fritz further extends his generosity in ways few from the community had ever seen. Fritz reigns supreme for over a decade in the drug game, making millions under the radar of the NYPD and he never got busted. Some look at Fritz as the Keyser Soze of the 80s. The most enigmatic drug dealer of that time. HARLEM HOLIDAY brings her readers the inside scoop after almost three-decades of silence, speculation, and secrecy. This biography is the inside story of Fritz never before told; the tale of how a lowly street hustler rises to orchestrate a one-man-syndicate. It's an account of events, as told by Fritz's family and closest friends, and details gathered from newspaper and magazine articles, court transcripts, and social media. Fritz's truth, joy, and despair are fully disclosed, while circumstances surrounding his death still remain a mystery.

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