Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Dick Griffin's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin talks about his parents and his childhood neighborhood
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin recalls working on a beer truck as a junior high student
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin talks about the origin of his last name
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin talks about his birth and his childhood dog
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin talks about his maternal family history, pt.1
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about his maternal family history, pt.2
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin describes his mother, Ruby Mae Griffith O'Banner, pt.1
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Dick Griffin describes his mother, Ruby Mae Griffith O'Banner, pt.2
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin talks about his half siblings
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin talks about his stepfather's death
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin remembers learning that his stepfather was not his biological father and getting free lunch in school
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin talks about his religious upbringing
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin remembers listening to a neighbor play the guitar and learning to play piano
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin talks about learning to play the trombone in seventh grade
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin remembers being selected to open for Sam Cooke at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about the State Fair in Jackson, Mississippi, with performers like Peg Leg Bates, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and HistoryMaker B.B. King
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin remembers working as a clerk and butcher for "Mr. Dad," who owned a cafe and grocery store in his neighborhood
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Dick Griffin talks about his mother's value for education and learning to run a store from "Mr. Dad"
Tape: 2 Story: 11 - Dick Griffin recalls why his family moved from the Under-The-Hill neighborhood
Tape: 2 Story: 12 - Dick Griffin talks about his experience at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi
Tape: 2 Story: 13 - Dick Griffin talks about how water moccasins drove his neighbors out from Under-The-Hill
Tape: 2 Story: 14 - Dick Griffin talks about his route through white neighborhoods as a student at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi
Tape: 2 Story: 15 - Dick Griffin talks about playing trombone and piano in high school, and his band, the Blue Notes
Tape: 2 Story: 16 - Dick Griffin talks about his encounters with racial discrimination as a teenager
Tape: 2 Story: 17 - Dick Griffin remembers being sent from Jitney Jungle to work in a shoe shine parlor
Tape: 2 Story: 18 - Dick Griffin talks about his vocal group, the Sputniks, and his musical elementary school classmate Freddie Waits
Tape: 2 Story: 19 - Dick Griffin talks about training his ear for music
Tape: 2 Story: 20 - Dick Griffin remembers not receiving a scholarship to attend college
Tape: 2 Story: 21 - Dick Griffin talks about his decision to attend Utica Junior College in Utica, Mississippi and his mentor there, Louis Lee
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin recalls meeting Sun Ra in Chicago, Illinois and becoming serious about the trombone
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin talks about the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi and his work on voter registration
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin remembers the assassination of Medgar Evers in 1968
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin talks about Sun Ra's band in New York City
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin describes Sun Ra
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin describes his musical development under Sun Ra
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin remembers the musicians he met in New York including Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and more
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about the development of his arrangement techniques
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin remembers meeting Charles Mingus at the Five Spot
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin recounts the time he was almost fired by Charles Mingus
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin talks about his friendship with Charles Mingus
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin talks about earning the respect of Charles Mingus and lying to Charles Mingus
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin describes the musical genius of Charles Mingus
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin talks about Charles Mingus' family background and Mingus' temper
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin remembers working in the Apollo Theater and playing in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin talks about moving to New York, and a missed opportunity to play for John Coltrane
Tape: 4 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin recalls his initial interest in multiphonics and the development of his technique
Tape: 4 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin talks about his marriage and his son
Tape: 4 Story: 10 - Dick Griffin talks about his early musical career in New York City, New York
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin talks about how Rahsaan Roland Kirk challenged him as a musician
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin lists the musical acts he saw while playing in the house band at the Apollo Theater
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin shares his memories of working with Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin talks about Rahsaan Roland Kirk's name change, intelligence, and blindness
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin compares the management of Sun Ra, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Charles Mingus
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin talks about the release of his first album, 'The Eighth Wonder' in 1974 with Strata-East Records
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin talks about the leadership of Strata-East Records and the company's difficulty fulfilling large orders
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about the band he assembled for his first album, 'Eighth Wonder' and his composition process
Tape: 5 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin talks about his composition, 'World Vibration Suite,' jazz v. classical trombone, and playing with the Symphony of the New World
Tape: 5 Story: 10 - Dick Griffin talks about his string quartets commissioned by Max Roach, which premiered at the 2011 Vision Festival
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin talks about his early affinity for art and his renewed interest in art as an adult
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin describes how the death of Freddie Waits inspired him to take his painting seriously
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin talks about his early art career and teaching career
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin talks about the launch of his career as an artist after receiving a master class from HistoryMaker Edward Clark
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin recalls his art training and reentry into the art world after a yearlong hiatus
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin talks about playing for musical greats like Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Frank Foster, and Lena Horne
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin talks about working on a beer truck as a teenager and his relationship with Thelonious Monk
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about musicians at the Village Vanguard
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - Dick Griffin talks about his good friend and mentor, Donald Byrd
Tape: 7 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin talks about his artwork
Tape: 7 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin describes the importance of creating boundaries between music and art
Tape: 7 Story: 3 - Dick Griffin talks about seizing life's opportunities
Tape: 7 Story: 4 - Dick Griffin talks about the economic factors behind demographic shifts in jazz
Tape: 7 Story: 5 - Dick Griffin talks about creativity and innovation in gospel, blues, jazz, and hip-hop music
Tape: 7 Story: 6 - Dick Griffin talks about jazz musicians in academia
Tape: 7 Story: 7 - Dick Griffin reflects upon his legacy
Tape: 7 Story: 8 - Dick Griffin talks about how he would like to be remembered and his values
Tape: 8 Story: 1 - Dick Griffin plays his trombone
Tape: 8 Story: 2 - Dick Griffin narrates his photographs