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| Introduction | |
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| Musical Orientation: Elements and Instruments | |
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| Ghana field recording, Akuapim performance | |
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| Jazz Form and Improvisation | |
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| The Roots of Jazz | |
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| Georgia Sea Island Singers, "The Buzzard Lope" | |
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| "Soon One Morning" | |
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| "Reckless Blues" | |
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| "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | |
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| "Down Home Rag" | |
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| New Orleans | |
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| Original Dixieland Jazz Band, "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" | |
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| "Dead Man Blues" | |
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| "Doctor Jazz" | |
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| "Snake Rag" | |
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| Red Onion Jazz Babies / Sidney Bechet, "Cake Walking Babies (from Home)" | |
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| New York in the 1920s | |
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| "Changes" | |
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| "Copenhagen" | |
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| "You've Got to Be Modernistic" | |
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| "Black and Tan Fantasy" | |
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| Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists | |
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| "Hotter Than That" | |
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| "Weather Bird" | |
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| "Singin' the Blues" | |
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| Mound City Blue Blowers / Coleman Hawkins, "One Hour" | |
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| Swing Bands | |
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| "Blue Lou" | |
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| "Dinah" | |
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| "Star Dust" | |
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| "Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" | |
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| Count Basie and Duke Ellington | |
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| "It's All Right, Baby" | |
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| "Walkin' and Swingin" | |
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| "One O'clock Jump" | |
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| "Mood Indigo" | |
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| "Conga Brava" | |
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| "Blood Count" | |
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| A World of Soloists | |
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| "Body and Soul" | |
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| "Oh! Lady Be Good" | |
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| "I'm Coming, Virginia" | |
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| "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" | |
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| "Blue Sides" | |
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| Rhythm in Transition | |
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| "Christopher Columbus" | |
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| "Over the Rainbow" | |
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| "Swing to Bop" ("Topsy") | |
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| Modern Jazz: Bebop | |
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| "Ko Ko" | |
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| "Embraceable You" | |
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| "Now's the Time" | |
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| "Tempus Fugue-It" | |
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| "Long Tall Dexter" | |
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| The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop | |
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| "Moon Dreams" | |
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| "All the Things You Are" | |
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| "The Preacher" | |
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| "A Night in Tunisia" | |
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| "Autumn Nocturne" | |
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| "Twisted Blues" | |
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| Jazz Composition in the 1950s | |
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| "Thelonious" | |
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| "Rhythm-a-ning" | |
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| "Boogie Stop Shuffle" | |
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| "King Porter Stomp" | |
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| "Concerto for Billy the Kid" | |
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| Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane | |
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| "So What" | |
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| "Giant Steps" | |
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| "Acknowledgement" | |
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| "E.S.E" | |
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| The Avant-Garde | |
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| "Lonely Woman" | |
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| "Bulbs" | |
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| "Part 3" | |
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| "Ghosts" | |
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| "El Matador" | |
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| Fusion I: R&B, Singers, and Latin Jazz | |
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| "The Organ Grinders Swing" | |
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| "The Birth of the Blues" | |
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| "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" | |
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| "Manteca" | |
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| "Watermelon Man" | |
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| "Samba Dees Days" | |
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| Fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond | |
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| Weather Report, "Teen Town" | |
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| "Long as You Know You're Living Yours" | |
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| "Chank" | |
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| "Tutu" | |
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| Historicism: Jazz on Jazz | |
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| "Piece Three" | |
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| "Processional" | |
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| "Now's the Time" | |
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| Jazz Today | |
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| "You've Got to Be Modernistic" | |
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| "Planet Rock" | |
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| Selected Musicians on Primary Jazz Instruments | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Collecting Jazz Recordings | |
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| Jazz on Film | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |