Visions of Jazz: the First Century

Part One: Precursors1: Bert Williams/Al Jolson (Native Wits)2: Hank Jones/Charlie Haden (Come Sunday)3: Louis Armstrong/Mills Brothers (Signifying)4: W.C. Handy (Birth of the Blues)5: Irving Berlin (Ragging the Alley)6: Spencer Williams (The Bard of Basin Street)7: Ethel Waters (The Mother of Us All)8: Bunk Johnson/George Lewis (Pithecanthropus Jazzman)Part Two: A New Music9: Jelly Roll Morton (Red Hot Dandy)10: King Oliver (Working Man Blues)11: Louis Armstrong (The Once and Future King)12: Duke Ellington (Part 1: The Poker Game)13: Coleman Hawkins (Patriarch)14: Pee Wee Russell (Seer)15: Chick Webb (King of the Savoy)16: Fats Waller (Comedy Tonight)Part Three: A Popular Music17: Benny Goodman (The Mirror of Swing)18: Jimmie Lunceford (For Listeners, Too)19: Count Basie/Lester Young (Westward Ho! and Back)20: Jimmy Rushing (Swinging the Blues)21: Roy Eldridge (Jazz)22: Ella Fitzgerald (Joy)23: Artie Shaw (Cinderella\'s Last Stand)24: Budd Johnson (Chameleon)25: Bobby Hackett (Muzak Man)26: Frank SInatra (The Ultimate in Theater)Part Four: A Modern Music27: Duke Ellington (Part 2: The Enlightenment)28: Billy Strayhorn (Passion FLower)29: Spike Jones (Chasin\' the Birdaphone)30: Charlie Parker (Flying Home)31: Dizzy Gillespie (The Coup and After)32: Sarah Vaughan (Divine)33: Thelonious Monk (Rhythm-a-ning)34: Bud Powell (Strictly Confidential)35: Chico O\'Farrill (North of the Border)36: Stan Kenton (Big)37: Dexter Gordon (Resurgence)Part Five: A Mainstream Music38: Miles Davis (Kinds of Blues)39: Gerry Mulligan (Beyond Cool)40: Art Blakey (Jazz Messenger)41: Billie Holiday (Lady of Pain)42: Modern Jazz Quartet (The First Forty Years)43: Nat King Cole (The Comeback King)44: Stan Getz (Seasons)45: Sonny Rollins (The Muse is Heard)46: Dinah Washington (The Queen)47: Rahsaan Roland Kirk (One-Man Band)Part Six: An Alternative Music48: Art Tatum (Sui Generis)49: Charles Mingus (Bigger Than Death)50: Cecil Taylor (Outer Curve)51: Ornette Coleman (This is Our Music)52: John Coltrane (Metamorphosis)53: Duke Ellington (Part 3: At then Pulpit)54: Muhal Richard Abrams (Meet This Composer)55: Roscoe Mitchell/Marty Ehrlich (The Audience)56: Henry Threadgill (The Big Top)57: Charles Gayle/David S. Ware/Matthew Shipp (Sweet Agony)Part Seven:A Struggling Music58: Hannibal Peterson (Out of Africa)59: Jimmy Rowles (The Late Hurrah)60: John Carter (American Echoes)61: Dee Dee Bridgewater (Back Home Again)62: Julius Hemphill (Gotham\'s Minstrel)63: Don Pullen (Last Connections)64: Gary Bartz (The Middle Passage)65: David Murray (Profuse)66: Dave Burrell (Brotherly Love)67: Abbey Lincoln (Strong Wind Blowing)Part Eight: A Traditional Music68: Randy Weston (Afrobeats)69: Rosemary Clooney (Going Her Way)70: Joe Henderson (Tributes)71: Tommy Flanagan (Standards and Practices)72: Joe Lovano (The Long Apprenticeship)73: Geri Allen/Jacky Terrasson (The Parameters of Hip)74: Joshua Redman (Tenor of the Times)75: Stephen Scott (Taking Time)76: James Carter (All of the Above)77: Louis Armstrong/Nicholas Payton (Interpreted)78: Cassandra Wilson (A Different Songbook)79: Don Byron (Musically Correct)AcknowledgmentsIndex of NamesIndex of Songs and Selected Albums