Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- The Styles of Jazz -- Around 1890: Ragtime -- Turn of the Century: New Orleans -- The Teens: Dixieland -- The Twenties: Chicago -- The Thirties: Swing -- The Forties: Bebop -- The Fifties: Cool Jazz, Hard Bop -- The Sixties: Free Jazz -- The Seventies -- The Eighties -- The Nineties -- Outlook: Jazz in the Age of Migration -- The Musicians of Jazz -- Louis Armstrong -- Bessie Smith -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Duke Ellington -- Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young -- Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie -- Miles Davis -- John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman -- John McLaughlin -- David Murray and Wynton Marsalis -- John Zorn -- The Elements of Jazz -- Sound and Phrasing -- Improvisation -- The Arrangement -- The Blues -- Spiritual and Gospel Song -- Harmony -- Melody -- Rhythm, Swing, Groove -- The Instruments of Jazz -- The Trumpet -- The Trombone -- The Clarinet -- The Saxophones -- The Soprano Saxophone -- The Alto Saxophone -- The Tenor Saxophone -- The Baritone Saxophone -- Saxophone Groups -- The Flute -- The Vibraphone -- The Piano -- Organ, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Electronics -- Hammond Organ -- Keyboards and Synthesizer -- Samplers and Electronics -- The Guitar -- The Bass -- The Drums -- The Percussion Instruments (Cuban, Salsa, Brazilian, African, Indian, Balinese) -- The Violin -- Miscellaneous Instruments -- Accordion -- Tuba -- Harmonica -- French Horn, Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon, Shells -- Mandolin, Banjo, Cello, Daxophone -- Non-Western Instruments -- The Oud -- Asian Stringed Instruments -- Kora -- Mixing Board -- The Vocalists of Jazz -- The Male Singers -- The Female Singers -- The Big Bands of Jazz -- Fletcher Henderson and the Beginning -- The Goodman Era -- The Black Kings of Swing -- Woody Herman and Stan Kenton -- Bebop Big Bands -- Basie as Basis.

Gil Evans and George Russell -- Free Big Bands -- Rock Big Bands -- Big Bands Forever: The Seventies -- Back to the Basics and Postmodernism: The Eighties -- Repertory Orchestras, Europe, and the Diversity of Styles: The Nineties -- The Small Bands of Jazz -- The Small Swing Bands -- Bop and Cool -- First High Points of Integration -- From Hard Bop to Free -- Ornette and After -- The Seventies -- Neobop -- AACM -- Jazz-Rock and Fusion -- The Eighties -- New Straight-Ahead Jazz -- The Avant-Garde Discovers the Tradition -- World Jazz -- Free Funk -- Since 1990: Stylistic Diversity and the Art of Interaction -- Toward a Definition of Jazz -- Discography -- Index.