Friday, September 23, 2011

Now's the Time: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones


Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones is a book that merits a video trailer. Jones was, as the embedded video suggests, "a complex man." The new title on the University of Minnesota Press about the longtime drummer for Count Basie has an appropriately complicated backstory.

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  1. I'll be reading it. I met Jo one time at the MMF. He was pretty cranky.

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