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Tables of Contents for Riffs & Choruses
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xiii
Heads
1
2
Introduction
3
8
Riff 1
11
2
Chorus I The Delirium Tremens of Syncopation: Jazz and definition (origin, terms, early reception)
13
42
Compendium: Jazz - formal definitions (1913-99)
18
4
`Introductory: Jazz' (1968)
22
1
Avril Dankworth
`Come on, Jazz!' (1987)
23
1
Robert Hendrickson
`The Jazz Age' (1983)
24
1
Eileen Southern
`A negro explains ``Jazz''' (1919)
25
1
James Reese Europe
`Jazz - the word' (1968)
26
1
Alan P. Merriam
Fradley H. Garner
`I created jazz in 1902' (1938)
27
3
Ferdinand `Jelly Roll' Morton
``The origins'' and ``The beginnings'' (1968)
30
2
Gunther Schuller
`The appeal of the primitive jazz' (1917)
32
3
Anonymous
`Delving into the genealogy of jazz' (1919)
35
2
Anonymous
`These cacophonic combinations' (1926)
37
1
Henry O. Osgood
`Does jazz put the sin in syncopation?' (1921)
38
2
Anne Shaw Faulkner
`Plus de jazz' (1921)
40
2
Clive Bell
`Bechet and jazz visit Europe, 1919' (1919)
42
2
Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet
`A concert of jazz' (1924)
44
2
Olin Downes
`Negro jazz' (1929)
46
4
Roger Pryor Dodge
`Baptized by jazz' (1927)
50
1
Svend Gade
`I discovered jazz in America' (1947)
51
2
Jean-Paul Sartre
`Jazz' (1984)
53
2
Sybil Kein
Riff 2
55
2
Chorus II Nothin' Over There But Critics: Jazz and history (criticism, canon, historiography)
57
46
`Jazz history-making' (1993)
61
1
David Meltzer
`Jazz criticism: Its development and ideologies' (1991)
62
6
John Gennari
`Introduction: A matter of fundamentals' (1970)
68
3
Martin Williams
``Hot jazz'' vs. ``Fine art'' (1946)
71
4
Winthrop Sargeant
`The essence' (1956)
75
4
Andre Hodeir
`Constructing the jazz tradition: Jazz historiography' (1991)
79
6
Scott DeVeaux
`Writing the other history' (1995)
85
2
Krin Gabbard
`The jazz canon as monological canon' (1991)
87
4
Gary Tomlinson
`Jazz and the white critic' (1963)
91
5
Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]
`Preface, Stormy Weather' (1984)
96
3
Linda Dahl
`Introduction, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya' (1955)
99
2
Nat Shapiro
Nat Hentoff
`I don't see nothin' over there but critics' (1971)
101
2
Charles Mingus
Riff 3
103
2
Chorus III `The Sound of Surprise': Jazz and style (convention, repertoire, improvisation)
105
42
`The styles of jazz' (1959)
109
1
Joachim Berendt
`Tradition, influence and innovation' (1991)
110
6
Geoff Dyer
`Aspects of the jam session' (1958)
116
4
Bruce Lippincott
`The ensemble and the soloist' (1996)
120
4
Ingrid Monson
`Three paragraphs' (1978)
124
2
Hayden Carruth
`Seein' Red' (1961)
126
2
Ross Russell
`The battle of the tenor kings' (1954)
128
1
Mary Lou Williams
`That's what it's all about' (1979)
129
1
Art Pepper
Laurie Pepper
`John Coltrane is practicing' (1975)
130
3
J.C. Thomas
`Kansas City jazz style' (1988)
133
4
Nathan W. Pearson
`Moldy figs vs. moderns!' (1947)
137
2
Barry Ulanov
`The fall of Flatbush Smith' (1947)
139
2
Martin Gardner
`Jazz turns neoclassical' (1985)
141
3
Gary Giddins
`How long has this been going on?' (1989)
144
3
Martin Williams
Riff 4
147
2
Chorus IV A People's Music: Jazz and culture (context, audience, social practice)
149
42
`Jazz as social history' (1979)
153
1
Charles Nanry
`The American jazz audience' (1986)
154
4
Harold Horowitz
`Understanding swing' (1994)
158
6
David W. Stowe
`The significance of the jazz controversy for twenties America' (1989)
164
6
Kathy J. Ogren
`Acceptance of jazz in the twenties' (1962)
170
7
Neil Leonard
`Jazz: Resistance to the diffusion of a culture-pattern' (1947)
177
1
Morroe Berger
`The jazz community' (1960)
178
2
Alan P. Merriam
Raymond W. Mack
`Where's the music going and why?' (1987)
180
3
Amiri Baraka
`Jazz and American culture' (1989)
183
2
Lawrence W. Levine
`Epilogue: Jazz as American history' (1997)
185
6
Burton W. Peretti
Riff 5
191
2
Chorus V So Black and Blue: Jazz and race (colour, identity, otherness)
193
42
`Miss Brown to you (1915-1959)' (2000)
197
1
Sascha Feinstein
`Battling the black music ideology' (1998)
198
5
Charley Gerard
`Masters in collaboration' (1987)
203
5
Amiri Baraka
`Black, white, and blue' (1993)
208
4
James Lincoln Collier
`Jazz black and white' (1994)
212
3
Gene Lees
`The jazzman as critic: the blindfold test (``Riddle of the races'')' (1960)
215
1
Leonard Feather
`Archie Shepp: The way ahead' (1968)
216
4
Nat Hentoff
Interviews with Charles Tolliver, Freddie Hubbard, Hazel Scott and Betty Carter (1970-2)
220
3
Arthur Taylor
`Bop' (1961)
223
2
Langston Hughes
`Travelin' light' (1956)
225
2
Billie Holiday
`Out of the gallion' (1946)
227
3
Mezz Mezzrow
`Here where Coltrane is' (1977)
230
1
Michael Harper
`Epilogue, Stomping the Blues' (1976)
231
1
Albert Murray
`The final set for this afternoon' (1971)
232
2
Charles Mingus
`Minstrelsy' (1961)
234
1
Ross Russell
Riff 6
235
2
Chorus VI Young Man with a Horn': Jazz and myth (narrative, romance, fabulation)
237
36
`Touching the past' (1987)
241
1
Robert Sargent
`New Orleans: Callin' our chillun home' (1939)
242
2
Frederick Ramsey, Jr.
Charles Edward Smith
`The Buddy Bolden cylinder' (1991)
244
1
William Matthews
`Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)' (1986)
245
1
Dana Gioia
`Young man with a horn' (1936)
245
3
Otis Ferguson
`from Young Man With a Horn' (1938)
248
2
Dorothy Baker
`Lester leaps in' (1982)
250
1
Al Young
`Lester Paris 59' (1959)
251
3
Francois Postif
`He wanted to look down on Broadway' (1990)
254
2
Frank Buchmann-Moller
`Dying in a hotel room' (1991)
256
3
Geoff Dyer
`Listening to Lester Young' (1978)
259
1
William Matthews
`At Billy Berg's' (1973)
260
3
Ross Russell
`A tribute to Bird' (1987)
263
1
Amiri Baraka
```Bird Lives'': Charles Parker' (1977)
264
2
Michael Harper
`The death of Bird' (1962)
266
2
Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter
`Destination K.C.' (1960)
268
2
Tony Scott
`The horn still blows' (1958)
270
3
John Clellon Holmes
Riff 7
273
2
Chorus VII Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Jazz and the jazz life (orality, autobiography, mediation)
275
40
`Jazz autobiography: Theory, practice, politics' (1995)
279
5
Christopher Harlos
`Getting there is half the fun' (1963)
284
2
Whitey Mitchell
`The hazardous road' (1971)
286
3
Dicky Wells
`Music everywhere' (1954)
289
3
Mary Lou Williams
`Claude Thornhill: The square on the lawn' (1983)
292
7
Mike Zwerin
`The poorest 7-piece orchestra on Earth' (1947)
299
3
Eddie Condon
`Them first kicks are a killer' (1946)
302
2
Mezz Mezzrow
`Street parades' (1950)
304
1
Ferdinand `Jelly Roll' Morton
`Watts burning' (1974)
305
2
Hampton Hawes
`Beboppers...the cult' (1979)
307
3
Dizzy Gillespie
`Heroin' (1979)
310
3
Art Pepper
Laurie Pepper
`Storyville' (1955)
313
2
Louis Armstrong
Riff 8
315
2
Chorus VIII Reetie Vouties with a Little Hot Sauce: Jazz and language (vernacular, argot, hipness)
317
44
`Introduction, Jazz Talk' (1975)
321
3
Robert S. Gold
`The jazzman's verbal usage' (1986)
324
8
Neil Leonard
`A portrait of the hipster' (1948)
332
3
Anatole Broyard
`Cool' (1959)
335
1
Robert G. Reisner
`Be cool' (1963)
336
1
Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]
`Just one big orooni' (1957)
337
1
Jack Kerouac
`Vipers, tea, and jazz' (1946)
338
1
Anonymous
`Story in Harlem slang' (1942)
339
8
Zora Neale Hurston
`Crazy Red Riding Hood' (1954)
347
2
Steve Allen
`In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee' (1949)
349
1
Mary Lou Williams
Milton Orent
`Sometime during eternity' (1958)
350
1
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
`The New Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary: Language of Jive' (1944)
351
5
Cab Calloway
`Advanced reading in jive - Sam D. Home's soliloquy' (1944)
356
2
Dan Burley
`Parker's mood' (1953)
358
1
King Pleasure [Clarence Beeks]
`Make/n my music' (1973)
359
2
Angela Jackson
Riff 9
361
2
Chorus XI Spontaneous Bop Prosody: Jazz and literature (word, text, performance)
363
42
`Improvising and mythmaking in Eudora Welty's ``Powerhouse''' (1995)
368
4
Leland H. Chambers
`Solo on the drums' (1947)
372
4
Ann Petry
`McDougal' (1961)
376
2
Frank London Brown
`Chicken Hawk's dream' (1966)
378
2
Al Young
`The king of jazz' (1977)
380
3
Donald Barthelme
`Imagining music' (1990)
383
4
Whitney Balliett
`A jazzman's heaven' (1956)
387
3
Jack Baird
`Jazz of the Beat Generation' (1955)
390
2
`Jean-Louis' [Jack Kerouac]
`Married blues' (1966)
392
1
Kenneth Rexroth
`Lonesome boy blues' (1957)
392
1
Kenneth Patchen
`Opening the window' (1957)
393
1
Kenneth Patchen
from `Autobiography' (1958)
394
3
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
`For Eric Dolphy' (1980)
397
1
Etheridge Knight
`Blues villanelle for Sonny Criss' (2000)
398
1
Sascha Feinstein
`Brother John' (1970)
399
1
Michael Harper
`Playing the invisible saxophone en el Combo de las Estrellas' (1981)
400
1
Harryette Mullen
`Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat' (1969)
401
4
Larry Neal
Riff 10
405
2
Chorus X All the Usual Pitfalls: Jazz and film (cliche, stereotype, ambience)
407
44
`Jazz digest' (1988)
411
5
Kenneth C. Spence
`Questions of influence in the white jazz biopic' (1996)
416
5
Krin Gabbard
`Louis Armstrong: The films' (1994)
421
4
Donald Bogle
`Round Midnight: An interview with Bertrand Tavernier' (1986)
425
6
Jean-Pierre Coursodon
`At the movies: Everycat' (1986)
431
2
Francis Davis
`Birdman of Hollywood' (1988)
433
4
Gary Giddins
`Birdland, Mon Amor' (1988)
437
4
Francis Davis
`Films' (1944)
441
1
James Agee
`On the beat in Hollywood' (1944)
442
1
Charles Emge
`Is Hollywood yielding?' (1945)
443
1
Jackie Lopez
`The Sound of Jazz' (1983)
444
2
Whitney Balliett
`Let's Get Lost: Baker as icon' (1989)
446
2
Hal Hinson
`A Great Day in Harlem' (1995)
448
3
James Berardinelli
Out-Chorus
451
2
Suggested Reading
453
10
Bibliography
463
12
Index of Names
475
11
Index of Jazz (and Jazz-related) Names
486