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| Foreword | |
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| Vamping (Early Jazz Poems) | |
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| Jazzonia | |
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| Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret | |
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| The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.) | |
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| Trumpet Player | |
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| Jazz Fantasia | |
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| Poem | |
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| The Jazz of This Hotel | |
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| "god pity me whom (god distinctly has)" | |
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| Ol' Bunk's Band | |
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| Cabaret | |
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| Bringing Jazz | |
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| Homage to Literature | |
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| Jazz Band | |
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| We Real Cool | |
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| Swinging (Jazz Origins, New Orleans & Ellingtonia) | |
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| Touching the Past | |
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| The Buddy Bolden Cylinder | |
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| In Praise of Buddy Bolden | |
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| Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?) | |
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| Louis Armstrong | |
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| "Jelly wrote" | |
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| The Fantastic Names of Jazz | |
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| For Sidney Bechet | |
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| Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) | |
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| "Sure," said Benny Goodman | |
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| Rose Solitude | |
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| Lush Life | |
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| Billy Strayhorn Writes "Lush Life" | |
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| Four Bongos: Take a Train | |
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| The Syncopated Cakewalk | |
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| Mood Indigo | |
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| Bop (Bird & Beyond) | |
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| War Memoir | |
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| Walking Parker Home | |
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| Crootey Songo | |
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| Eleven from Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth | |
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| Charles Parker, 1920-1955 | |
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| May 12 | |
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| Yardbird's Skull (for Charlie Parker) | |
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| Chasing the Bird | |
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| Charlie Parker Birthday Celebration, Tompkins Square Park | |
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| Charlie Parker: Almost Like Being in Love | |
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| Parker's Mood | |
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| Victrola | |
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| Filling the Gap | |
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| Horn Section | |
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| Jazz | |
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| Jazz Is My Religion | |
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| Lester Young | |
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| String of Pearls | |
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| Pres Spoke in a Language | |
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| Prez in Paris, 1959 | |
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| Personal Poem | |
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| For Miles | |
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| Blue in Green | |
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| The Blues of This Day | |
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| Melody Forensic | |
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| Almost Blue | |
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| Art Pepper | |
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| Snake-Back Solo | |
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| Body and Soul II | |
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| Listening to Sonny Rollins at the Five Spot | |
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| February in Sydney | |
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| Sheets of Sound (Coltrane & Co.) | |
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| John Coltrane | |
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| Dear John, Dear Coltrane | |
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| Here Where Coltrane Is | |
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| Reuben, Reuben | |
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| Coltrane, Syeeda's Song Flute | |
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| After the War; When Coltrane Only Wanted to Play Dance Tunes | |
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| Alabama, c. 1963: A Ballad by John Coltrane | |
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| William Carlos Williams | |
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| Photo of John Coltrane, 1963 | |
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| Fall Down | |
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| For Eric Dolphy | |
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| Don't Cry, Scream | |
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| Am/Trak | |
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| Trane | |
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| Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41 | |
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| Soloing | |
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| "John Coltrane Arrived with an Egyptian Lady" | |
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| Rhythm Section | |
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| Jazz | |
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| Mingus at the Showplace | |
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| Bud Powell, Paris, 1959 | |
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| One O'Clock Jump | |
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| For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | |
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| Shaking Hands with Mongo | |
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| Copacetic Mingus | |
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| Elegy for Thelonious | |
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| Crepuscule with Nellie | |
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| Snow | |
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| Thelonious Sphere Monk | |
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| Listening Images | |
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| Ruby My Dear | |
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| Free Jazz | |
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| Dark to Themselves | |
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| Leaving Saturn | |
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| C.T.'s Variation | |
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| from Written to Music | |
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| Music for Homemade Instruments | |
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| Gyre's Galax | |
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| Epistrophe | |
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| Muting (for Billie Holiday) | |
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| Song for Billie Holiday | |
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| Strange Fruit | |
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| God Bless the Child | |
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| Stardust | |
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| The Secret Life of Musical Instruments | |
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| Lady Sings the Blues | |
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| Poem in Which I Make the Mistake of Comparing Billie Holiday to a Cosmic Washerwoman | |
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| For Our lady | |
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| What I'm Wild For | |
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| The Day Lady Died | |
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| Canary | |
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| The Journey | |
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| List of Authors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |