Riffs & choruses: a new jazz anthology

Riff 1

Chorus I. Delirium Tremens of Syncopation

Jazz and definition (origin, terms, early reception)

1. Compendium: Jazz - formal definitions (1913-99)

2. 'Introductory: Jazz' (1968) / Avril Dankworth

3. 'Come on, Jazz!' (1987) / Robert Hendrickson

4. 'The Jazz Age' (1983) / Eileen Southern

5. 'A negro explains "Jazz"' (1919) / James Reese Europe

6. 'Jazz - the word' (1968) / Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner

7. 'I created jazz in 1902' (1938) / Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

8. "The origins" and "The beginnings" (1968) / Gunther Schuller

9. 'The appeal of the primitive jazz' (1917) / Anonymous

10. 'Delving into the genealogy of jazz' (1919) / Anonymous

11. 'These cacophonic combinations' (1926) / Henry O. Osgood

12. 'Does jazz put the sin in syncopation?' (1921) / Anne Shaw Faulkner

13. 'Plus de jazz' (1921) / Clive Bell

14. 'Bechet and jazz visit Europe, 1919' (1919) / Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet

15. 'A concert of jazz' (1924) / Olin Downes

16. 'Negro jazz' (1929) / Roger Pryor Dodge

17. 'Baptized by jazz' (1927) / Svend Gade

18. 'I discovered jazz in America' (1947) / Jean-Paul Sartre

19. 'Jazz' (1984) / Sybil Kein

Riff 2

Chorus II. Nothin' Over There But Critics: Jazz and history (criticism, canon, historiography)

20. 'Jazz history-making' (1993) / David Meltzer

21. 'Jazz criticism: Its development and ideologies' (1991) / John Gennari

22. 'Introduction: A matter of fundamentals' (1970) / Martin Williams

23. "Hot jazz" vs. "Fine art" (1946) / Winthrop Sargeant

24. 'The essence' (1956) / Andre Hodeir

25. 'Constructing the jazz tradition: Jazz historiography' (1991) / Scott DeVeaux

26. 'Writing the other history' (1995) / Krin Gabbard

27. 'The jazz canon as monological canon' (1991) / Gary Tomlinson

28. 'Jazz and the white critic' (1963) / Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]

29. 'Preface, Stormy Weather' (1984) / Linda Dahl

30. 'Introduction, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya' (1955) / Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff

31. 'I don't see nothin' over there but critics' (1971) / Charles Mingus

Riff 3

Chorus III. 'The Sound of Surprise': Jazz and style (convention, repertoire, improvisation)

32. 'The styles of jazz' (1959) / Joachim Berendt

33. 'Tradition, influence and innovation' (1991) / Geoff Dyer

34. 'Aspects of the jam session' (1958) / Bruce Lippincott

35. 'The ensemble and the soloist' (1996) / Ingrid Monson

36. 'Three paragraphs' (1978) / Hayden Carruth

37. 'Seein' Red' (1961) / Ross Russell

38. 'The battle of the tenor kings' (1954) / Mary Lou Williams

39. 'That's what it's all about' (1979) / Art Pepper and Laurie Pepper

40. 'John Coltrane is practicing' (1975) / J. C. Thomas

41. 'Kansas City jazz style' (1988) / Nathan W. Pearson

42. 'Moldy figs vs. moderns!' (1947) / Barry Ulanov

43. 'The fall of Flatbush Smith' (1947) / Martin Gardner

44. 'Jazz turns neoclassical' (1985) / Gary Giddins

45. 'How long has this been going on?' (1989) / Martin Williams

Riff 4

Chorus IV. People's Music: Jazz and culture (context, audience, social practice)

46. 'Jazz as social history' (1979) / Charles Nanry

47. 'The American jazz audience' (1986) / Harold Horowitz

48. 'Understanding swing' (1994) / David W. Stowe

49. 'The significance of the jazz controversy for twenties America' (1989) / Kathy J. Ogren

50. 'Acceptance of jazz in the twenties' (1962) / Neil Leonard

51. 'Jazz: Resistance to the diffusion of a culture-pattern' (1947) / Morrore Berger

52. 'The jazz community' (1960) / Alan P. Merriam and Raymond W. Mack

53. 'Where's the music going and why?' (1987) / Amiri Baraka

54. 'Jazz and American culture' (1989) / Lawrence W. Levine

55. 'Epilogue: Jazz as American history' (1997) / Burton W. Peretti

Riff 5

Chorus V. So Black and Blue: Jazz and race (colour, identity, otherness)

56. 'Miss Brown to you (1915-1959)' (2000) / Sascha Feinstein

57. 'Battling the black music ideology' (1998) / Charley Gerard

58. 'Masters in collaboration' (1987) / Amiri Baraka

59. 'Black, white, and blue' (1993) / James Lincoln Collier

60. 'Jazz black and white' (1994) / Gene Less

61. 'The jazzman as critic: the blindfold test ("Riddle of the races")' (1960) / Leonard Feather

62. 'Archie Shepp: The way ahead' (1968) / Nat Hentoff

63. Interviews with Charles Tolliver, Freddie Hubbard, Hazel Scott and Betty Carter (1970-2) / Arthur Taylor

64. 'Bop' (1961) / Langston Hughes

65. 'Travelin' light' (1956) / Billie Holiday

66. 'Out of the gallion' (1946) / Mezz Mezzrow

67. 'Here where Coltrane is' (1977) / Michael Harper

68. 'Epilogue, Stomping the Blues' (1976) / Albert Murray

69. 'The final set for this afternoon' (1971) / Charles Mingus

70. 'Minstrelsy' (1961) / Ross Russell

Riff 6

Chorus VI. 'Young Man with a Horn': Jazz and myth (narrative, romance, fabulation)

71. 'Touching the past' (1987) / Robert Sargent

72. 'New Orleans: Callin' our chillun home' (1939) / Frederick Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith

73. 'The Buddy Bolden cylinder' (1991) / William Matthews

74. 'Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)' (1986) / Dana Gioia

75. 'Young man with a horn' (1936) / Otis Ferguson

76. 'from Young Man With a Horn' (1938) / Dorothy Baker

77. 'Lester leaps in' (1982) / Al Young

78. 'Lester Paris 59' (1959) / Francois Postif

79. 'He wanted to look down on Broadway' (1990) / Frank Buchmann-Moller

80. 'Dying in a hotel room' (1991) / Geoff Dyer

81. 'Listening to Lester Young' (1978) / William Matthews

82. 'At Billy Berg's' (1973) / Ross Russell

83. 'A tribute to Bird' (1987) / Amiri Baraka

84. '"Bird Lives": Charles Parker' (1977) / Michael Harper

85. 'The death of Bird' (1962) / Pannonica de Koenigswarter

86. 'Destination K.C. (1960) / Tony Scott

87. 'The horn still blows' (1958) / John Clellon Holmes

Riff 7

Chorus VII. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Jazz and the jazz life (orality, autobiography, mediation)

88. 'Jazz autobiography: Theory, practice, politics' (1995) / Christopher Harlos

89. 'Getting there is half the fun' (1963) / Whitey Mitchell

90. 'The hazardous road' (1971) / Dicky Wells

91. 'Music everywhere' (1954) / Mary Lou Williams

92. 'Claude Thornhill: The square on the lawn' (1983) / Mike Zwerin

93. 'The poorest 7-piece orchestra on Earth' (1947) / Eddie Condon

94. 'Them first kicks are a killer' (1946) / Mezz Mezzrow

95. 'Street parades' (1950) / Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

96. 'Watts burning' (1974) / Hampton Hawes

97. 'Beboppers ... the cult' (1979) / Dizzy Gillespie

98. 'Heroin' (1979) / Art Pepper and Laurie Pepper

99. 'Storyville' (1955) / Louis Armstrong

Riff 8

Chorus VIII. Reetie Vouties with a Little Hot Sauce: Jazz and language (vernacular, argot, hipness)

100. 'Introduction, Jazz Talk' (1975) / Robert S. Gold

101. 'The jazzman's verbal usage' (1986) / Neil Leonard

102. 'A portrait of the hipster' (1948) / Anatole Broyard

103. 'Cool' (1959) / Robert G. Reisner

104. 'Be cool' (1963) / Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]

105. 'Just one big orooni' (1957) / Jack Kerouac

106. 'Vipers, tea, and jazz' (1946) / Anonymous

107. 'Story in Harlem slang' (1942) / Zora Neale Hurston

108. 'Crazy Red Riding Hood' (1954) / Steve Allen

109. 'In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee' (1949) / Mary Lou Williams and Milton Orent

110. 'Sometime during eternity' (1958) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

111. 'The New Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary: Language of Jive' (1944) / Cab Calloway

112. 'Advanced reading in jive - Sam D. Home's soliloquy' (1944) / Dan Burley

113. 'Parker's mood' (1953) / King Pleasure [Clarence Beeks]

114. 'Make/n my music' (1973) / Angela Jackson

Riff 9

Chorus IX. Spontaneous Bop Prosody: Jazz and literature (word, text, performance)

115. 'Improvising and mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse"' (1995) / Leland H. Chambers

116. 'Solo on the drums' (1947) / Ann Petry

117. 'McDougal' (1961) / Frank London Brown

118. 'Chicken Hawk's dream' (1966) / Al Young

119. 'The king of jazz' (1977) / Donald Barthelme

120. 'Imagining music' (1990) / Whitney Balliett

121. 'A jazzman's heaven' (1956) / Jack Baird

122. 'Jazz of the Beat Generation' (1955) / 'Jean-Louis' [Jack Kerouac]

123. 'Married blues' (1966) / Kenneth Rexroth

124. 'Lonesome boy blues' (1957) / Kenneth Patchen

125. 'Opening the window' (1957) / Kenneth Patchen

126. from 'Autobiography' (1958) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

127. 'For Eric Dolphy' (1980) / Etheridge Knight

128. 'Blues villanelle for Sonny Criss' (2000) / Sascha Feinstein

129. 'Brother John' (1970) / Michael Harper

130. 'Playing the invisible saxophone en el Combo de las Estrellas' (1981) / Harryette Mullen

131. 'Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat' (1969) / Larry Neal

Riff 10

Chorus X. All the Usual Pitfalls: Jazz and film (cliche, stereotype, ambience)

132. 'Jazz digest' (1988) / Kenneth C. Spence

133. 'Questions of influence in the white jazz biopic' (1996) / Krin Gabbard

134. 'Louis Armstrong: The films' (1994) / Donald Bogle

135. 'Round Midnight: An interview with Bertrand Tavernier' (1986) / Jean-Pierre Coursodon

136. 'At the movies: Everycat' (1986) / Francis Davis

137. 'Birdman of Hollywood' (1988) / Gary Giddins

138. 'Birdland, Mon Amor' (1988) / Francis Davis

139. 'Films' (1944) / James Agee

140. 'On the beat in Hollywood' (1944) / Charles Emge

141. 'Is Hollywood yielding?' (1945) / Jackie Lopez

142. 'The Sound of Jazz' (1983) / Whitney Balliett

143. 'Let's Get Lost: Baker as icon' (1989) / Hal Hinson

144. 'A Great Day in Harlem' (1995) / James Berardinelli.