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Preface to New Edition Preface to Original Edition Wild Scenes The Word "Jazz" Beginnings Inventions Pianos Teachers and Students Stage Fright Reading Music Hiring and Firing Managers, Agents and Bosses On the Road Arrangers and Arrangements Cutting Contests 52nd Street Jazz Records Jazz on the Air The Well-dressed Jazz Musician Prejudice Songs Goofs Pranks The Put-on Good Lines Names Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith Bix Beiderbecke Thomas "Fats" Walker Eddie Condon Pee Wee Russell Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Benny Goodman Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young Art Tatum and His Children Joe Venuti Tommy Dorsey Lionel Hampton Charlie Parker John Birks Gillspie Charles Mingus Zoot Sims and Al Cohn Miles Davis and John Coltrane Paul Desmond Buddy Rich Count Basie Jokes
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Jazz -- Anecdotes.