Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Jazz and the White Critic -- Minton's -- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets -- Recent Monk -- Three Ways to Play the Saxophone -- A Day With Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz) -- A Jazz Great: John Coltrane -- Coltrane Live at Birdland -- The Jazz Avant-Garde -- Introducing Wayne Shorter -- Introducing Dennis Charles -- New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz -- Introducing Bobby Bradford -- Present Perfect (Cecil Taylor) -- Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor) -- Apple Cores #1 -- Apple Cores #2 -- Apple Cores #3 -- Apple Cores #4 -- Apple Cores #5-The Burton Greene Affair -- Apple Cores #6 -- New Tenor Archie Shepp Talking -- Four for Trane (Archie Shepp) -- Don Cherry -- New Black Music: A Concert in Benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live -- Sonny's Time Now -- The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music) -- A Brief Discography of New Music -- Interview with Amiri Baraka by Calvin Reid (2009).