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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Prologue: Jazz Me Blues | p. 1 |
The Makers | |
Miles Davis in the Fever of Spring, 1961 1998 | p. 40 |
Bird Land: Charlie Parker, Clint Eastwood, and America 1989 | p. 66 |
Papa Dip: Crescent City Conquistador and Sacrificial Hero Louis Armstrong 1985 | p. 77 |
Not So Dizzy 1989 | p. 83 |
At the Five Spot Thelonious Monk 1977 | p. 86 |
Ahmad Jamal 1989 | p. 95 |
Himself When He Was Real: The Art of Charles Mingus 1994 | p. 100 |
Blues for the Space Age Ornette Coleman 2002 | p. 108 |
Titan of the Blues John Coltrane 1987 | p. 111 |
Andrew Hill's Alternative Avant-Garde 1984 | p. 116 |
Rooster Ben: King of Romance Ben Webster 1986 | p. 120 |
The Last of the Great Bandleaders Sun Ra 1982 | p. 125 |
Don't Ask the Critics: Ask Wallace Roney's Peers 2000 | p. 129 |
Duke Ellington: Transcontinental Swing 1998 | p. 133 |
Thoughts | |
Martin's Tempo 1992 | p. 154 |
The Late, Late Blues: Jazz Modernism 2004 | p. 157 |
Blues to Be Constitutional 1995 | p. 166 |
Body and Soul, 1983 | p. 180 |
Battle Royal | |
JazzTimes Columns: Introduction | p. 206 |
Jazz Tradition Is Not Innovation January 2002 | p. 209 |
The Negro Aesthetic of Jazz October 2002 | p. 211 |
Coltrane Derailed September 2002 | p. 213 |
Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Art Form September 1986 | p. 216 |
Jazz's Own Sweet Time November 2002 | p. 230 |
Putting the White Man in Charge April 2003 | p. 232 |
Piano Prodigy May 2003 | p. 235 |
Detours Ahead | |
On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis 1986 | p. 240 |
The Way It Was, The Way It Is | |
Come Sunday Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson 2004 | p. 258 |
The Presence Is Always the Point 2000 | p. 271 |
Live at the Village Vanguard Wynton Marsalis 1999 | p. 285 |
Epilogue | p. 297 |
Index | p. 341 |
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