Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- 1. A Polish Prelude -- 2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can't You? -- 3. The Faintest Idea -- 4. Geniuses of the Right Hand -- 5. A Port of Transit -- 6. As Melancholic as a Sunset -- 7. Which One of the Three? -- 8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me -- 9. The Virtuoso Nomad -- 10. An Island of Defaulters -- 11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather -- 12. A Wrong Modulation -- 13. The Palms -- 14. Your Tempi! -- 15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread -- 16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes -- 17. Shon May and Shon Max -- 18. Sensuous Movement -- 19. Max and the Shark -- 20. The Rebels -- 21. The New Woman -- 22. Curfew -- 23. My Sister the Negress -- 24. Spy -- 25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos -- 26. Music Everywhere -- 27. Chick Corea -- 28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber -- 29. Mazurka Erotika -- 30. The Tumba Queen -- 31. End of an Era -- 32. Bal Colonial -- 33. The Pilgrimage -- 34. The Trade Wind in My Ears -- 35. The Bastard Son -- Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.