From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
2 Recordings and Performance 13 --
6 Improvisation, Composition, and Arranging 43 --
8 Listening to Jazz 61 --
11 Beginnings of Jazz 87 --
12 1900-1925: New Orleans 96 --
13 Beyond New Orleans 116 --
14 1925-1940: Swing 126 --
15 The 1940s: Revivalism 151 --
16 Five Who Helped Make a Revolution 155 --
18 The 1950s: Cool Jazz 175 --
19 West Coast Jazz 184 --
20 Hard Bop, Soul Music, and Funk 192 --
22 Post-Bebop Improvisation, c. 1956 200 --
23 1959: Multiple Revolutions 209 --
28 The 1980s and 1990s 269 --
30 Acid Jazz, Drum 'n' Bass, Neo-Swing 283 --
Appendix 1 Jazz Singing 293 --
Appendix 2 A Guide to the Record Guides 300 --
Appendix 3 Jazz on the Internet 306 --
Appendix 4 Jazz at the Movies 314 --
Appendix 6 Records by Mail 338.
