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| Listening Guide CD Tracks | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Roots | |
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| African-American Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Sources of Musical Diversity | |
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| The Preservation of African Traditions | |
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| European Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Instrumentation, Form, and Harmony | |
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| Roman Numerals Designate the Harmonies Relative to the Key | |
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| Written Versus Head Arrangements | |
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| Early African-American Music | |
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| The Problem of Transcribing African-American Music | |
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| Christianity, the Ring Shout, and Work Songs | |
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| Blue Notes and Syncopation | |
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| The Blues Scale | |
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| Minstrelsy | |
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| Ragtime | |
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| Scott Joplin | |
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| James Scott | |
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| Joseph Lamb | |
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| Artie Matthews | |
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| Ragtime's Relationship to Jazz | |
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| Listening Guide: "Pork And Beans" | |
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| The Blues | |
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| Pioneers of the Delta Blues | |
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| Gertrude "Ma" Rainey | |
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| W. C. Handy | |
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| Blues Form | |
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| Bessie Smith | |
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| Listening Guide: "Back Water Blues" | |
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| Characteristics of Early Jazz Singing | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Early Jazz and New Orleans Jazz | |
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| The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz | |
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| New Orleans | |
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| Why Did Jazz Arise in New Orleans? | |
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| Charles "Buddy" Bolden | |
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| Sidney Bechet | |
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| Jazz Performance Terms | |
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| Listening Guide: "Texas Moaner Blues" | |
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| Jelly Roll Morton | |
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| Jelly's Last Jam | |
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| Listening Guide: "The Chant" | |
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| The Evolution of the Jazz Band | |
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| The Advent of Jazz Recording | |
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| The First Jazz Recording | |
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| Early Jazz Instruments and Their Players | |
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| Cornet | |
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| Trombone | |
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| Clarinet | |
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| Bass/Tuba | |
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| Banjo/Guitar | |
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| Drums | |
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| Piano | |
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| The Exodus from New Orleans | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Jazz in Chicago | |
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| The Migration North | |
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| King Oliver and the Creole Jazz Band | |
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| Listening Guide: "High Society" | |
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| Louis Armstrong | |
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| Armstrong's Classic Style | |
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| Armstrong in Chicago and His Later Career | |
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| Listening Guide: "S. O. L. Blues" | |
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| Trombone Technique | |
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| The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke | |
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| Bix Beiderbecke's Solo on "Jazz Me Blues" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Jazz Me Blues" | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| New York in the 1920s | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Harlem Stride Piano | |
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| Piano Rolls | |
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| Eubie Blake | |
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| James P. Johnson | |
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| Listening Guide: "You've Got To Be Modernistic" | |
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| Fats Waller | |
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| Beginnings of the Big Bands | |
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| Fletcher Henderson | |
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| Duke Ellington's Early Career | |
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| Bubber Miley and Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton | |
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| Listening Guide: "The Mooche" | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Swing Era | |
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| Overview: A Decade of Swing | |
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| The Big Band in the Swing Era | |
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| Instrumentation, Technique, and Arrangement | |
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| Big-Band Terms | |
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| Listening Guide: "Down South Camp Meeting" | |
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| The Changing Role of the Rhythm Section | |
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| Territory Bands | |
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| The Original Blue Devils | |
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| Kansas City | |
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| Mary Lou Williams and the Clouds of Joy | |
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| Listening Guide: "Mary's Idea" | |
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| Count Basie | |
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| Listening Guide: "Shoe Shine Boy" | |
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| Jazz Performance Terms | |
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| Benny Goodman--King of Swing | |
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| Listening Guide: "Avalon" | |
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| Ellington After the Cotton Club | |
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| Building on the Band | |
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| Changes for the Better | |
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| The 1940s and Beyond | |
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| Listening Guide: "Sepia Panorama" | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Swing-Era Bands and Stylists | |
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| Influential Big Bands of the Swing Era | |
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| Cab Calloway | |
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| Jimmie Lunceford | |
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| Chick Webb | |
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| The Casa Loma Orchestra | |
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| McKinney's Cotton Pickers | |
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| Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey | |
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| Glenn Miller | |
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| Artie Shaw | |
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| Swing-Era Stylists | |
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| Benny Goodman: Lyrical Clarinet | |
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| Listening Guide: "Avalon" | |
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| Coleman Hawkins: Elevating the Saxophone | |
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| Listening Guide: "Ready For Love" | |
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| Lester Young:"Tellin' Stories" on the Saxophone | |
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| Lester Young's Use of Formulas in "Shoe Shine Boy" | |
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| Listening Guide: "Shoe Shine Boy" | |
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| Roy Eldridge: From Armstrong to Gillespie | |
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| Jack Teagarden: Trombone Styles | |
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| Earl Hines: Fluid and Linear Piano | |
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| Teddy Wilson: Elegant Ensemble Piano | |
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| Art Tatum: Piano Technique at Its Best | |
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| Jimmy Blanton: Bassist as Soloist | |
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| Jo Jones: Modernizing the Drums | |
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| Gene Krupa: Drums with Drive | |
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| Charlie Christian: Shift to Electric Guitar | |
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| Benny Carter: Composer and Arranger | |
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| "All of Me": A Benny Carter Arrangement | |
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| Billie Holiday: Tragic Singer | |
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| Listening Guide: "All Of Me" | |
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| Ella Fitzgerald: Sixty Years of Song | |
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| Summary of the Features of Swing | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Bebop Era | |
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| Revolution Versus Evolution | |
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| Characteristics of the Bebop Style | |
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| A Recomposition: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High" | |
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| The Historical Origins of Bebop | |
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| The Early Forties: Jamming at Minton's and Monroe's | |
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| The American Federation of Musicians Strike in 1942 | |
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| Big Bands in the Early 1940s | |
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| Jazz Moves to Fifty-Second Street | |
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| The Architects of Bebop | |
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| Charlie Parker | |
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| Listening Guide: "Salt Peanuts" (Excerpt) | |
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| Dizzy Gillespie | |
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| Listening Guide: "Bloomdido" | |
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| Bud Powell | |
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| Thelonious Monk | |
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| Listening Guide: "Four In One" | |
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| Other Bebop Artists | |
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| J. J. Johnson | |
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| Dexter Gordon | |
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| Bop-Style Big Bands in the Late 1940s | |
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| Woody Herman | |
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| Claude Thornhill | |
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| Swing Bands in the Bebop Era | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Fifties and New Jazz Substyles | |
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| Jazz and the New Substyles | |
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| Technological Advances in the 1950s | |
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| Cool Stylists | |
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| Miles Davis and Birth of the Cool | |
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| Listening Guide: "JERU" | |
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| Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker | |
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| The Modern Jazz Quartet | |
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| Dave Brubeck | |
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| Stan Getz | |
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| Lennie Tristano | |
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| Jazz on the West Coast | |
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| Third-Stream Music | |
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| Piano Stylists | |
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| Vocalists | |
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| Joe Williams | |
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| Vocalese: Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross | |
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| Frank Sinatra | |
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| Frank Sinatra | |
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| Hard Bop and Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | |
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| Listening Guide: "Moanin'" | |
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| Horace Silver | |
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| Charles Mingus | |
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| Listening Guide: "Hora Decubitus" | |
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| Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet | |
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| Max Roach and Modern Drumming | |
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| Listening Guide: "Powell's Prances" | |
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| Sonny Rollins | |
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| Sonny Rollins and Improvisation | |
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| Miles Davis in the 1950s | |
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| What Is Modal Jazz? | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Sixties Avant-Garde | |
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| Avant-Garde Jazz and Black Activism | |
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| Voices of Discontent | |
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| Archie Shepp | |
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| Albert Ayler | |
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| Listening Guide: "Ghosts: First Variation" | |
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| Black Activism and the Avant-Garde Today | |
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| Ornette Coleman and Free Jazz | |
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| Ornette Coleman's Chamber and Orchestral Compositions | |
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| Listening Guide: "Street Woman" | |
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| John Coltrane | |
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| Overview of Coltrane's Career | |
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| Early Years | |
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| Hard Bop with Miles Davis | |
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| Coltrane's Classic Quartet | |
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| Coltane's Modal Compositions | |
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| Listening Guide: "Acknowledgement" | |
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| Coltrane and the Avant-Garde | |
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| Cecil Taylor | |
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| Taylor's Unit Structures | |
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| Chicago: AACM, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton | |
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| Other Avant-Garde Stylists | |
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| Black Artists Group and the World Saxophone Quartet | |
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| Sun Ra | |
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| Eric Dolphy | |
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| Eric Dolphy and Booker Little | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Mainstream Jazz in the 1960s | |
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| Miles Davis in the Sixties | |
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| Listening Guide: "E.S.P." | |
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| Pianists | |
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| Bill Evans | |
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| Listening Guide: "Peri's Scope" | |
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| Herbie Hancock | |
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| Chick Corea | |
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| Keith Jarrett and ECM Records | |
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| ECM Records | |
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| Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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| Cannonball Adderley | |
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| The Blues in Funky/Soul Jazz | |
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| Jimmy Smith and Jazz Organists | |
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| Guitarists | |
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| Blue Note Records | |
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| The Hard Bop Legacy | |
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| Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard | |
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| Wayne Shorter | |
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| Joe Henderson | |
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| Other Blue Note Artists | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk Fusion | |
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| Synthesizers | |
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| The Appeal of Rock and Funk | |
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| The Fusion Music of Miles Davis | |
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| Miles Davis in the Early 1970s | |
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| Other Fusion Pioneers | |
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| CTI Records | |
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| Lifetime | |
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| Mahavishnu Orchestra | |
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| Herbie Hancock and Head Hunters | |
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| Listening Guide: "Chameleon" (Excerpt) | |
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| Herbie Hancock's Synthesizer Solo on "Chameleon" | |
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| Chick Corea and Return to Forever | |
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| Listening Guide: "Light As A Feather" | |
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| Weather Report | |
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| Listening Guide: "Birdland" | |
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| Pat Metheny | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Jazz Since the 1980s | |
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| Classicism and the Jazz Repertory Movement | |
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| Complete Jazz-Recording Reissues | |
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| Live Performance | |
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| Wynton Marsalis | |
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| Listening Guide: "Express Crossing" | |
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| The Blakey Alumni | |
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| Big Bands | |
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| The Popular Connection | |
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| Digital Technology | |
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| Smooth Jazz | |
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| Listening Guide: "Summer Nights" | |
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| Acid Jazz | |
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| The Mass Market: Radio and the Internet | |
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| Neo-Swing | |
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| The Avant-Garde, Crossover, World Music, and Jazz to Come | |
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| Jazz and Feminism | |
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| Jazz Abroad | |
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| Crossover, Postmodernism, and World Music | |
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| Listening Guide: "Salt Peanuts" | |
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| Directions for Crossover Jazz | |
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| Listening Guide: "Far West" | |
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| The Future of Jazz | |
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| Questions and Topics for Discussion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Selected Discography | |
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| Index | |
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| Audio Primer CD Tracks | |