Rifftide - The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones

Softcover
172 pgs.
University of Minnesota Press, Publ.
Illustrated

Drawn from fourteen tapes recorded over eight years beginning in 1977, "Rifftide" is an impressionistic series of riffs and tales by Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray, a cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, revealing a man at the forefront of a new form of music and a country amid incredible turmoil and opportunity.