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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Basics of Jazz | |
| What is Jazz? | |
| Appreciating Jazz Improvisation | |
| Premodern JAZZ | |
| Origins of Jazz | |
| Early Jazz: Combo Jazz Prior to the Middle | |
| Swing: The Early 1930s to the Late 1940s | |
| Duke Ellington | |
| The Count BASIE BAND... MORE | |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1940s to the Early 1960s | |
| Bop: The Early 1940s to the Early 1950s | |
| Cool Jazz | |
| Hard Bop | |
| Miles Davis, his Groups & Sidemen | |
| John Coltrane | |
| Modern Jazz: The Early 1960s to the Present | |
| 1960s and 1970s Avant-Garde and "Free" Jazz | |
| Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett | |
| Jazz-Rock Fusion | |
| 1980 to the Present | |
| Other Voices | |
| Appendices | |
| Brief Outline of Jazz Styles | |
| Elements of Music | |
| Strategies for Buying Recorded Music | |
| A Small Basic Collection of Jazz Videos | |
| Glossary | |
| Supplementary Reading | |
| Sources for Solo Transcriptions | |
| For Musicians | |
| Index | |
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