From the Book - 2nd rev. ed.
Introduction: a matter of fundamentals
King Oliver: father figure
Jelly Roll Morton: three-minute form
Sidney Bechet: first and last
Louis Armstrong: style beyond style
Bix Beiderbecke: the white man's burden
Coleman Hawkins: some comments on a phoenix
Billie Holiday: actress without an act
Art Tatum: not for the left hand alone
Duke Ellington: form beyond form
Count Basie and Lester Young: style beyond swing
Charlie Parker: the burden of innovation
Thelonious Monk: Modern jazz in search of maturity
John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet: modern conservative
Sonny Rollins: spontaneous orchestration
Horace Silver: the meaning of craftsmanship
Miles Davis: a man walking
Sarah Vaughan: the meaning of self-discovery
Bill Evans: a need to know
Charlie Mingus: the pivotal instrument
John Coltrane: a man in the middle
Ornette Coleman: innovation from the source
Eric Dolphy: step by step
World Saxophone Quartet: four in one
The meaning of a music : an art for the century.
