Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz
Journalists Association
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The things that I have, I'll give to you. This is my legacy with
you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. "So begins the autobiography
of Jonathan David Samuel Jones--or as the world better knows him,
Papa Jo Jones. Playing with Count Basie and his orchestra when they
exploded out of Kansas City in 1936 and took the world by storm,
Jones went on to inspire generations of jazz drummers, but until
now few have had access to his own remarkable story.
"Rifftide" presents Jones's inimitable life and opinions, as
originally told by Jones to the prominent jazz historian and
novelist Albert Murray and now transcribed, arranged, and
introduced by Paul Devlin. Drawn from fourteen tapes recorded over
eight years beginning in 1977, "Rifftide" is an impressionistic
series of riffs and tales by Jones: his life as a musician on the
road in segregated America, his outstanding solo career following
his years with the Basie band, and his interactions with iconic
artists and cultural figures of the time, including Ralph Ellison,
James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Satchell Paige.
A true American original and jazz luminary, Papa Jo Jones
bedazzled and intrigued many with his outrageous, volatile
personality and his innovative drumming--and nowhere does his
fierce intellect and humor shine more marvelously than in his
life's telling. With a fascinating introduction and annotations by
Paul Devlin and an afterword by Phil Schaap, jazz historian and
longtime friend of Jones, "Rifftide" reveals a man at the forefront
of both a whole new form of music and a country in the midst of
incredible turmoil and opportunity. As Jones himself puts it:
"Listen man, I've had a hell of a time . . .
"
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