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 of jazz drummers, but until now few have had access to his own remarkable story.
Rifftide presents Jones's...
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...
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 of jazz drummers, but until now few have had access to his own remarkable story.
Rifftide presents Jones's...
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...
Paul Devlin's Ad Astra Per Aspera is a collection of his early poems, representing a broad spectrum of the felt experiences, notions, and perspectives of his earlier years.
Paul Devlin's Ad Astra Per Aspera is a collection of his early poems, representing a broad spectrum of the felt experiences, notions, and perspectives...
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916 2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study "Stomping the Blues" (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded with Wynton Marsalis and others in 1987. "Murray Talks Music" brings together, for the first time, many of Murray s finest interviews and essays on music most never before published as well as...
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916 2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and...
