The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

CONTENIDO:
Chronology of jazz
The word 'jazz' - Krin Gabbard
Part I. Jazz Times:
1. The identity of jazz - David Horn
2. The jazz diaspora - Bruce Johnson
3. The jazz audience - Jed Resula
4. Jazz and dance - Robert Crease
Part II. Jazz Practices:
5. Jazz as musical practice - Travis Jackson
6. Jazz as cultural practice - Bruce Johnson
7. Jazz improvization - Ingrid Monson
8. Spontaneity and organization - Pete Martin
9. Jazz among the classics, and the case of Duke Ellington - Mervyn Cooke
Part III. Jazz Changes:
10. 1959: the beginning of beyond - Darius Brubeck
11. Free jazz and the avant-garde - Jeff Pressing
12. Fusions and crossovers - Stuart Nicholson
Part IV. Soundings:
13. Learning jazz, teaching jazz - David Aka
14. History and myth: the problem of early jazz - David Sagar
15. Analysing jazz - Thomas Owens
Part V. Jazz Takes:
16. Valuing jazz - Robert Walser
17. The jazz business - Dave Laing
18. Images of jazz - Krin Gabbard
Personalia