Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones

by Paul Devlin, Phil Schaap, Albert Murray, et al.

Book Overview

Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Association 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816673012
• ISBN13: 9780816673018
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"