Paul Devlin

Non-Rifftide Appearances In 2012

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Jazz at Lincoln Center, January 21, 2012
Panelist on “Paris Blues Revisited” panel (along with Diedra Harris-Kelly, Robert O’Meally, and Edie Shaw Marcus)
Delivered paper “The Paris Briarpatch of Romare Bearden and Albert Murray.”

D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, January 26, 2012
“The Visual Dimension of Albert Murray’s Aesthetics,” gallery talk/seminar. Co-presented with Greg Thomas. In honor of the exhibition “Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray”.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, June 19, 2012
“Music in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison.” Conversation with Loren Schoenberg.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. August 25, 2012
“The Wit and Wisdom of Papa Jo Jones”. Lecture/Multi-media presentation.

University of Alabama at Birmingham, September 26, 2012
“What Was Jazz Autobiography?: History, Genre, Theory.” English Alumni Lecture.

Rifftide Appearances in 2012

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Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY February 3rd, 2012
Interviewed by Bob Waldman as part of music book interview series

St. John’s University, Queens, NY, February 9th, 2012
Paul Devlin and Phil Schaap interviewed by John Lowney as part of “Bookmarks” Interview Series

Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, AL, April 21, 2012
Presentation on Rifftide

Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray, edited, transcribed and annotated by Paul Devlin, afterword by Phil Schaap

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Reading Hemingway Through Wittgenstein / Reading Wittgenstein Through Hemingway (E-book)

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Review in New York Times

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With a pronounced irascible streak to match his heterodox approach to drumming, Papa Jo Jones (1911-85) was an ideal candidate to star in the kind of book that delights jazz fans: the straight-talking, defiantly espousing firsthand record. Anyone interested in authenticity of voice is going to be on the verge of fist-pumping the air throughout, or else exclaiming, “You tell it like it is, baby,” as if partaking in a call-and-response with the book.

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Review in Jazz Times

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Arguably Papa Jo Jones is the most influential of all jazz drummers; he set the stylistic and virtuosic template for all drummers after him. The drum set was developed in 1909 with the invention of the bass drum pedal but effectively Jo Jones was the first to fully understand how to play that mechanism as well as the hi-hat. He was the first real artist on the modern drum set. His personality was larger than life and a performer to the upmost level. Is there more to the man than the many remaining recordings of Jo Jones?

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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem: Jo Jones at 100

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http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/archive.php?id=880

Papa Jo Jones, the pioneer of jazz drumming in the 20th century, would have been 100 this year. Join us for an afternoon of conversation as well as audio and video clips of Papa Jo in his element of free play and improvisation.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Listening Party

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November 17, 2011

Video: http://deeper.io/jalc-edu/Default.aspx?mg=4eb8da07-a7f6-44df-a9e4-557b014c38a7

Interview with Josh Jackson on WBGO

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WBGO’s Josh Jackson talks to Paul Devlin, editor of Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones (University of Minnesota Press).

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Review in The Root by Joshua Weaver

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A no-holds-barred biography of the late jazz drummer Papa Jo Jones — Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones — is rife with stories of musical ingenuity amid the racial strife of the swing era and beyond. Rifftide also presents the jazz musician’s innermost thoughts.

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