Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Enactment in Sound -- PART ONE Notes and Memories of the New Music, 1969 -- PART TWO A Way of Living -- Johnny Griffin -- Ira Sullivan -- Wilbur Campbell -- PART THREE The Generators -- Louis Armstrong -- Black Beauty, White Heat -- Earl Hines -- Count Basie -- Duke Ellington -- Arthur Rollini -- Arnett Cobb -- Artie Shaw -- Louis Bellson -- Ruby Braff -- PART FOUR Moderns and After -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Thelonious Monk -- Monk in Motion -- Herbie Nichols -- Oscar Peterson -- Stan Getz -- Woody Herman and Stan Getz -- Al Cohn -- Art Pepper -- Sonny Stitt -- Jackie McLean -- Sonny Rollins -- Hank Mobley -- Tina Brooks -- Clifford Brown and Max Roach -- Philly Joe Jones -- Horace Silver -- Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell -- Bill Evans -- Keith Jarrett -- Gary Burton -- Pat Metheny -- Frank Zappa -- McCoy Tyner -- Wayne Shorter -- Ornette Coleman -- Cecil Taylor -- Roscoe Mitchell -- Evan Parker -- The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra -- PART FIVE Miles Davis -- Milestones -- Miles in the Sky -- In a Silent Way -- The Lost Quintet -- Miles Returns -- Filles de Kilimanjaro -- PART SIX Tristano-ites -- Lee Konitz -- Tristano, Konitz, Marsh -- PART SEVEN The Neo-Con Game -- Jazz in the Global Village -- Raiders of the Lost Art -- Marsalis at Twenty-One -- The Death of Jazz? -- "The Death of Jazz?" Revisited -- The Marsalis Brothers Further On -- The Sound-Alikes -- PART EIGHT Singers and Songmakers -- Gershwin Musicals -- Hoagy Carmichael -- Smithsonian Pop -- Billie Holiday -- Sarah Vaughan -- Cabaret Music -- Chris Connor -- Tony Bennett -- Standards and "Standards" -- PART NINE Alone Together -- The Jazzman as Rebel -- Anita O'Day -- Jazz and Jack Kerouac -- Jazz Goes to College.