| Chapter 1 |
Origins |
| Chapter 2 |
Free to Bare the Soul
W. C. Handy |
| Chapter 3 |
All That Jazz
Bunk Johnson
Louis Armstrong |
| Chapter 4 |
Come On and Hear
Scott Joplin |
| Chapter 5 |
More Pioneers
James Bland
William Grant Still |
| Chapter 6 |
A Medley
Lena Horne
Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Billie Holiday
Mary Lou Williams |
| Chapter 7 |
The Aristocrat
Duke Ellington |
| Chapter 8 |
Talented Quartet
Fats Waller
Count Basie
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie "Bird" Parker |
| Chapter 9 |
The Beat Goes On
Jelly Roll Morton
Lionel Hampton
Thomas Dorsey
Mahalia Jackson |
| Chapter 10 |
A Classic Example
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Marian Anderson
Howard Swanson
Leontyne Price
Jessye Norman
Andre Watts
Coretta Scott King
Paul Robeson
...and many more |
| Chapter 11 |
More Excellence
Miles Davis
Clark Terry
John Coltrane
Cannonball Adderley
Bud Powell
Wardell Gray
Thelonius Monk
Charles Mingus |
| Chapter 12 |
Moving On in Micro
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
Dinah Washington
Ray Charles
Nat King Cole
Chuck Berry
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
Little Richard
Diana Ross
B. B. King
Stevie Wonder |
| Chapter 13 |
Banding Together
Fletcher Henderson
Cab Calloway
Earl "Fatha" Hines |
| Chapter 14 |
Very Recently
Herbie Hancock
Anita Baker
Whitney Houston
Cissy Houston
Quincy Jones
Tracy Chapman
Wynton Marsalis |
| Chapter 15 |
Rap or Hip Hop |
|
A Postlude |
|
Bibliography |
|
Index |