Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jazz and classical music -- To the third stream and beyond / Terru Teachout -- Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s / Dick Katz -- Hard bop /Gene Seymour -- Miles Davis / Bob Belden -- Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II / Doug Ramsey -- Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus / Brian Priestley -- John Coltrane / Lewis Porter -- The avant-garde, 1949-1967 / Lawrence Kart -- Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s / Bob Blumenthal -- Jazz singing since the 1940s / Will Friedwald -- Jazz since 1968 / Peter Keepnews -- Fusion / Bill Milkowski -- Jazz repertory / Jeffrey Sultanof -- Latin jazz / Gene Santoro -- Jazz in Europe -- The real world music or the full circle / Mike Zwerin -- Jazz and Brazilian music / Stephanie L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Charlie Parker, "Ko Ko" -- Charlie Parker, "Embraceable you" -- Charlie Parker, "Now's the time" -- Bud Powell, "Tempus fugue-it" -- Dexter Gordon, "Long tall Dexter" -- The 1950s : cool jazz and hard bop. Miles Davis, "Moon dreams" -- Modern Jazz Quartet, "All the things you are" -- Horace Silver, "The preacher" -- Clifford Brown, "A night in Tunisia" -- Sonny Rollins, "Autumn nocturne" -- Wes Montgomery, "Twisted blues" -- Jazz composition in the 1950s. …”