Writing jazz: conversations with critics and biographers

Introduction

Poetic Prose / Whitney Balliett

Hitting Your Mark / Bob Blumenthal

If You Can't Do Better, Might as Well Just Stay Away / Stanley Crouch

Breaking Down the Gates / Linda Dahl

Maxine Calling / Maxine Gordon

The Culture of Jazz / Farah Jasmine Griffin

Living Archives / John Edward Hasse

Taking It Back / Willard Jenkins

But I Know What Time It Is Now / Hettie Jones

Evidence / Robin D. G. Kelley

The Artist's Way / Laurie Pepper

On the Record / Tom Piazza

The Archival Mind / Ricky Riccardi

Don't Give It Up / A. B. Spellman.