African roots of jazz / Samuel A. Floyd Jr. -- European roots of jazz / William H. Youngren -- Ragtime then and now / Max Morath -- The early origins of jazz /Jeff Taylor -- New York roots : Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists / Thomas L. Riis -- The blues in jazz / Bob Porter -- Bessie Smith / Chris Albertson -- King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet : menage a trois, New Orleans style / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Louis Armstrong / Dan Morgenstern -- Bix Beiderbecke / Digby Fairweather -- Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker -- Hot music in the 1920s : the "Jazz Age," appearances and realities / Richard M. Sudhalter -- Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s / Henry Martin -- Coleman Hawkins / Kenny Berger -- Lester Young / Loren Schoenberg -- Streamlining jazz : Major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s / John McDonough -- Jazz singing : between blues and bebop / Joel E. Siegel -- Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Billie Holiday / Patricia Willard -- Jazz and the American song / Gene Lees -- Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / James T. Maher and Jeffrey Sultanof -- Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / Max Harrison -- The advent of bebop / Scott DeVeaux -- The New Orleans revival / Richard Hadlock --
(cont.) Charlie Parker / James Patrick -- Cool jazz and west coast jazz / Ted Gioia -- Jazz and classical music : to the third stream and beyond / Terry Teachout -- Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s / Dick Katz -- Hard bop / Gene Seymour -- Miles Davis / Bob Belden -- Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II / Doug Ramsey -- Theolonious Monk and Charles Mingus / Brian Priestley -- John Coltrane / Lewis Porter -- The avant-garde, 1949-1967 / Lawrence Kart -- Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s / Bob Blumenthal -- Jazz singing since the 1940s / Will Friedwald -- Jazz since 1968 / Peter Keepnews -- Fusion / Bill Milkowski -- Jazz repertory / Jeffrey Sultanof -- Latin jazz / Gene Santoro -- Jazz in Europe : the real world music-- or the full circle / Mike Zwerin -- Jazz and Brazilian music / Stephanie L. Stein Crease -- Jazz in Africa : the ins and outs / Howard Mandel -- Jazz in Japan / Kiyoshi Koyama -- Jazz in Canada and Australia / Terry Martin -- The clarinet in jazz / Michael Ullman -- The saxophone in jazz / Don Heckman -- The trumpet in jazz / Randy Sandke -- The trombone in jazz / Gunther Schuller -- The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz : batteries not included / Neil Tesser -- Miscellaneous instruments in jazz / Christopher Washburne --
(cont.) The bass in jazz / Bill Crow -- Jazz drumming / Burt Korall -- Jazz and dance / Robert P. Crease -- Jazz and film and television / Chuck Berg -- Jazz clubs / Vincent Pelote -- Jazz and American literature / Gerald Early -- Jazz criticism / Ron Welburn -- Jazz education / Charles Beale -- Recorded jazz / Dan Morgenstern -- Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity / David Demsey.
