The whole history and range of jazz and its players, an evocative journey from the early days to the late 1990s, with over a quarter of the entries devoted to young, active artists Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains 79 chapters that illuminate the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. Poised to become a classic, this volume is an evocative journey through the first one hundred years of jazz music. Introduction 3(13) Part One: Precursors (Native Wits) 13(6) Bert Williams Al Jolson (Come Sunday) 19(4) Hank Jones Charlie Haden (Signifying) 23(4) Louis Armstrong Mills Brothers (Birth of the Blues) 27(4) W. C. Handy (Ragging the Alley) 31(14) Irving Berlin (The Bard of Basin Street) 45(6) Spencer Williams (The Mother of Us All) 51(8) Ethel Waters (Pithecanthropus Jazzman) 59(10) Bunk Johnson George Lewis Part Two: A New Music (Red Hot Dandy) 69(8) Jelly Roll Morton (Working Man Blues) 77(6) King Oliver (The Once and Future King) 83(19) Louis Armstrong (Part 1: The Poker Game) 102(16) Duke Ellington (Patriarch) 118(12) Coleman Hawkins (Seer) 130(7) Pee Wee Russell (King of the Savoy) 137(6) Chick Webb (Comedy Tonight) 143(10) Fats Waller Part Three: A Popular Music (The Mirror of Swing) 153(9) Benny Goodman (For Listeners, Too) 162(8) Jimmie Lunceford (Westward Ho! and Back) 170(14) Count Basie Lester Young (Swinging the Blues) 184(4) Jimmy Rushing (Jazz) 188(8) Roy Eldridge (Joy) 196(8) Ella Fitzgerald (Cinderella's Last Stand) 204(6) Artie Shaw (Chameleon) 210(4) Budd Johnson (Muzak Man) 214(6) Bobby Hackett (The Ultimate in Theater) 220(13) Frank Sinatra Part Four: A Modern Music (Part 2: The Enlightenment) 233(19) Duke Ellington (Passion Flower) 252(5) Billy Strayhorn (Chasin' the Birdaphone) 257(4) Spike Jones (Flying Home) 261(22) Charlie Parker (The Coup and After) 283(15) Dizzy Gillespie (Divine) 298(10) Sarah Vaughan (Rhythm-a-ning) 308(10) Thelonious Monk (Strictly Confidential) 318(6) Bud Powell (North of the Border) 324(3) Chico O'Farrill (Big) 327(3) Stan Kenton (Resurgence) 330(9) Dexter Gordon Part Five: A Mainstream Music (Kinds of Blues) 339(16) Miles Davis (Beyond Cool) 355(10) Gerry Mulligan (Jazz Messenger) 365(3) Art Blakey (Lady of Pain) 368(8) Billie Holiday (The First Forty Years) 376(26) Modern Jazz Quartet (The Comeback King) 402(5) Nat King Cole (Seasons) 407(6) Stan Getz (The Muse Is Heard) 413(12) Sonny Rollins (The Queen) 425(6) Dinah Washington (One-Man Band) 431(8) Rahsaan Roland Kirk Part Six: An Alternative Music (Sui Generis) 439(5) Art Tatum (Bigger Than Death) 444(11) Charles Mingus (Outer Curve) 455(12) Cecil Taylor (This Is Our Music) 467(9) Ornette Coleman (Metamorphosis) 476(14) John Coltrane (Part 3: At the Pulpit) 490(11) Duke Ellington (Meet This Composer) 501(8) Muhal Richard Abrams (The Audience) 509(4) Roscoe Mitchell Marty Ehrlich (The Big Top) 513(9) Henry Threadgill (Sweet Agony) 522(7) Charles Gayle David S. Ware Matthew Shipp Part Seven: A Struggling Music (Out of Africa) 529(4) Hannibal Peterson (The Late Hurrah) 533(5) Jimmy Rowles (American Echoes) 538(6) John Carter (Back Home Again) 544(3) Dee Dee Bridgewater (Gotham's Minstrel) 547(4) Julius Hemphill (Last Connections) 551(7) Don Pullen (The Middle Passage) 558(4) Gary Bartz (Profuse) 562(10) David Murray (Brotherly Love) 572(3) Dave Burrell (Strong Wind Blowing) 575(12) Abbey Lincoln Part Eight: A Traditional Music (Afrobeats) 587(6) Randy Weston (Going Her Way) 593(8) Rosemary Clooney (Tributes) 601(5) Joe Henderson (Standards and Practices) 606(7) Tommy Flanagan (The Long Apprenticeship) 613(5) Joe Lovano (The Parameters of Hip) 618(4) Geri Allen/Jacky Terrasson (Tenor of the Times) 622(6) Joshua Redman (Taking Time) 628(2) Stephen Scott (All of the Above) 630(4) James Carter (Interpreted) 634(7) Louis Armstrong Nicholas Payton (A Different Songbook) 641(5) Cassandra Wilson (Musically Correct) 646(9) Don Byron Acknowledgments 655(2) Index of Names 657(14) Index of Songs and Selected Albums 671