At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene

Contents

• Contents
• Foreword by Lewis Porter
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Part One. What Am I Here For? The Rules of My Jazz Odyssey
• 1. Who Owns Jazz?
• 2. My Debt to Artie Shaw
• 3. The Family of Jazz
• 4. Beyond the Process
• 5. Playing Changes on Jazz Interviews Part Two. In the Presence of Ellington
• 6. Inside the Ellington Band
• 7. Duke Ellington's Posthumous Revenge
• 8. Essentially Duke (and Wynton)
• 9. Ellington's Band Is Heavenly in These "Live" Forties Recordings Part Three. Jazz Credentials
• 10. Is Jazz Black Music?
• 11. No One Else Sounded Like "Pee Wee" Russell
• 12. Just Call Him Thelonious
• 13. Remembering Dizzy
• 14. Oscar Peterson: A Jazz "Behemoth" Moves On
• 15. A Great Night in Providence for Jazz and Snow
• 16. The Perfect Jazz Club
• 17. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Music Legend
• 18. The Music of the 1930s Is Back in Full Swing
• 19. The Expansive Jazz Journey of Marian McPartland
• 20. Going Inside Jazz with Wynton Part Four. The Jazz Life On and Off the Road
• 21. Memories Are Made of This: A Conversation with Clark Terry
• 22. Man, I'm So Lucky to Be a Jazz Musician: Phil Woods
• 23. Conventional Unwisdom about Jazz Part Five. Who Is a Jazz Singer?
• 24. Are Krall and Monheit Jazz Singers?
• 25. Billie Holiday, Live: A Biography in Music
• 26. This Daughter of Jazz Is One Cool Cat
• 27. The Springtime of Frank Sinatra
• 28. Sinatra Sings in Vegas, and You Are There
• 29. She's on the Road to Renown
• 30. Bing and Guests Swing on the Air Part Six. The Life Force of the Music
• 31. The Joyous Power of Black Gospel Music
• 32. The Healing Power of Jazz
• 33. Old Country Jewish Blues and Ornette Coleman
• 34. The Jewish Soul of Willie "The Lion" Smith Part Seven. Finding the First Amendment Groove
• 35. Satchmo's Rap Sheet
• 36. The Constitution of a Jazzman
• 37. How Jazz Helped Hasten the Civil Rights Movement
• 38. The Congressman from the Land of Jazz
• 39. Jazz Musicians in the Public Square
• 40. Quincy Jones--Past, Present and Future Part Eight. Roots
• 41. King Oliver in the Groove(s)
• 42. Giants at Play
• 43. Barrelhouse Chuck Goering Keeps the Blues Alive
• 44. Jazz's History Is Living in Queens ...
• 45. Uncovering Jazz Trails
• 46. Expanding the Map Part Nine. The Survivors
• 47. The Thoreau of Jazz
• 48. A Living Memory of Dr. Art
• 49. Barren Days
• 50. Keeping Jazz--and Its Musicians--Alive
• 51. In New Orleans, the Saints Are Marching In Again
• 52. The Beating Heart of Jazz Part Ten. The Regenerators
• 53. Bridging Generations
• 54. The Rebirth of the Hot Jazz Violin
• 55. The Newest Jazz Generation
• 56. Born in Israel
• 57. Theo Croker Arrives
• 58. The Ladies Who Swung the Band
• 59. Nineteen-Year-Old Saxophonist Verifies Future of Jazz Part Eleven. The Master Teachers
• 60. A Complete Jazzman
• 61. The Lifetime Teacher: Jon Faddis
• 62. A House of Swing--for All Ages
• 63. Inside the Jazz Experience: Ron Carter
• 64. These Little Kids Think Coltrane Is Cool Epilogue: My Life Lessons from the Jazz "Souls on Fire" Credits
• Index