Riffs & choruses : a new jazz anthology / edited by Andrew Clark.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-474) and indexes.

Riff 1 -- Chorus I. The 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.Clive Bell -- 14. '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. A 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 -- 108.4. '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.

000996368