Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction: The Musical Life of Papa Jo Jones -- Rifftide -- I Have Had a Varied Life -- Can't Nobody Tell Me One Inch about Show Business -- The Count Basie Institution -- They Said the Negro Would Never Be Free -- My Thirst after Knowledge Will Never Cease -- People I've Rubbed Elbows With -- I Often Wondered Why I Was Such a Strange Fella -- Afterword: The Persistence of Papa Jo Jones -- Editor's Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.