Quotable Jazz Book

I. SOME DEFINITIONS

What is Jazz? Take One: Musician's Definitions: Conversations With Myself

What is Jazz? Take Two: Critics' and Fans' Definitions: Birth of the Cool

What is Jazz? Take Three: Social Criticism: I Get Along Without You Very Well

Jazz Lingo: Jivin' with Jack the Bellboy

II. THE JAZZ LIFE

The Jazz Life, Some General Observations

Blues: Kind of Blue

Drinking: Straight, No Chaser

Drugs: Jack, I'm Mellow

Musicians and Sex: Dancing In the Dark

Attire: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Jazz Fans: A Love Supreme

Selling Out: Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another

Critics: Dance of the Infidels

Making a Living: Easy Living

On the Road: A Night In Tunisia

The Club Scene: Birdland

Health & Aging: Autumn Leaves

The Music Business: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Swinging: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Intellectualism: Brilliant Corners

Eccentricity: Twisted

Women In Jazz: Have You Met Miss Jones

Race: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue

Politics: Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me

Religion &Spirituality: Better Git It In Your Soul

Records, Collectors, Remasters & Reissues: Nights at the Turntable

Fame: I Should Care

Mistakes: Everything Happens to Me

Gangsters: Heavy Weather

Life Lessons: In A Mellotone

III. MUSICIANS SPEAKING FREELY

Musicians on Musicians: Something to Remember You By

Famous Meetings: I Want to Talk About You

Influences: I've Got You Under My Skin

Ego: I'm Nothin' Without Me

Self-Criticism: Here's That Rainy Day

Insults & Feuds: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You

Lawrence Welk: Grandpa's Spells

IV. STYLES, PEOPLE, and PLACES

Big Bands and Swing: Stompin' At the Savoy

Bebop: Salt Peanuts

Free Jazz: Freedom Jazz Dance

Fusion and Rock: On the Corner

Vocalists: Sing Sing Sing

The Latin Thing: La Fiesta

Jazz Poetry: Wouldn't That Be Kerouac?

Composers and Arrangers: I Could Write A Book

Drummers: The Main Man

At the Piano: The Pearls

N'awlins: Drop Me Off In New Orleans

New York: Scrapple from the Apple

Jazz Around the World: Le Jazz Hot

V. SOME OF THE GREATS

Louis Armstrong: West End Blues

Benny Goodman: Don't Be That Way

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In

Bird: Ornithology

Monk: Misterioso

Buddy Rich: Big Band Machine

Trane: Ascension

Ornette Coleman: Dancing In Your Head

Miles Davis: Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

VI. FINAL THOUGHTS

The Future of Jazz: The Shape of Jazz to Come

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