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Tables of Contents for Sitting in
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
The Guy Downstairs
1
9
A Chaconnade for Everyone Named Rebecca
10
4
Freedom and Discipline
14
3
Academicism
17
3
Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat
20
2
Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz
22
8
Joe Turner
30
2
Song about Earl Hines
32
1
With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism
33
5
A Possibly Momentary Declaration in Favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell
38
14
Paragraph
52
1
Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues
53
7
The Intentional Alligator
60
7
Personality of Genius
67
2
Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow
69
4
Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error
73
4
Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before Dawn
77
6
Three Paragraphs
83
2
The Defeated Generation
85
9
The Cowshed Blues
94
5
The Main Thing about Improvisation
99
3
The Blues Scale
102
5
Ben Webster
107
1
The Time of Falling Apart
108
3
The Blues as Poetry
111
6
In That Session
117
1
James Wright's Collected Prose
118
5
Mystery and Expressiveness
123
9
An Expatiation on the Combining of Weathers at Thirty-Seventh and Indiana Where the Southern More or Less Crosses the Dog
132
2
Instances
134
10
Letter to Maxine Sullivan
144
2
Smith
146
7
To All Human Consciousness the Clandestine Is Basal
153
6
Duncan's Dream
159
4
Coda
163
1
Meditation in the Presence of ``Ostrich Walk''
164
1
What Does ``Organic'' Mean?
165
2
Good Old Wagon
167
6
Ben Webster
173
9
Anthems
182
3
The Spun-Off Independent Dead-End Ten-Star Blast
185
10
Homage to John Lyly and Frankie Newton
195
1
What a Wonder Among the Instruments Is the Walloping Tramboone
196
2
Eleven Memoranda on the Culture of Jazz
198