I. SOME DEFINITIONS
What is Jazz? Take One: Musician's Definitions: Conversations
With Myself
What is Jazz? Take Two: Critics' and Fans' Definitions: Birth
of the Cool
What is Jazz? Take Three: Social Criticism: I Get Along Without
You Very Well
Jazz Lingo: Jivin' with Jack the Bellboy
II. THE JAZZ LIFE
The Jazz Life, Some General Observations
Blues: Kind of Blue
Drinking: Straight, No Chaser
Drugs: Jack, I'm Mellow
Musicians and Sex: Dancing In the Dark
Attire: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Jazz Fans: A Love Supreme
Selling Out: Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another
Critics: Dance of the Infidels
Making a Living: Easy Living
On the Road: A Night In Tunisia
The Club Scene: Birdland
Health & Aging: Autumn Leaves
The Music Business: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Swinging: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Intellectualism: Brilliant Corners
Eccentricity: Twisted
Women In Jazz: Have You Met Miss Jones
Race: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue
Politics: Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me
Religion & Spirituality: Better Git It In Your Soul
Records, Collectors, Remasters & Reissues: Nights at the
Turntable
Fame: I Should Care
Mistakes: Everything Happens to Me
Gangsters: Heavy Weather
Life Lessons: In A Mellotone
III. MUSICIANS SPEAKING FREELY
Musicians on Musicians: Something to Remember You By
Famous Meetings: I Want to Talk About You
Influences: I've Got You Under My Skin
Ego: I'm Nothin' Without Me
Self-Criticism: Here's That Rainy Day
Insults & Feuds: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal
You
Lawrence Welk: Grandpa's Spells
IV. STYLES, PEOPLE, and PLACES
Big Bands & Swing: Stompin' At the Savoy
Bebop: Salt Peanuts
Free Jazz: Freedom Jazz Dance
Fusion and Rock: On the Corner
Vocalists: Sing Sing Sing
The Latin Thing: La Fiesta
Jazz Poetry: Wouldn't That Be Kerouac?
Composers and Arrangers: I Could Write A Book
Drummers: The Main Man
At the Piano: The Pearls
N'awlins: Drop Me Off In New Orleans
New York: Scrapple from the Apple
Jazz Around the World: Le Jazz Hot
V. SOME OF THE GREATS
Louis Armstrong: West End Blues
Benny Goodman: Don't Be That Way
Lester Young: Lester Leaps In
Bird: Ornithology
Monk: Misterioso
Buddy Rich: Big Band Machine
Trane: Ascension
Ornette Coleman: Dancing In Your Head
Miles Davis: Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
VI. FINAL THOUGHTS
The Future of Jazz: The Shape of Jazz to Come
Coda
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