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Riffs & choruses: a new jazz anthology
Publisher
Continuum
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
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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.
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