TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: Further Conversations with Duke

Introduction

1.  Jazz Prehistory

2.  Ellington: Origins and Early Development

3.  Mercer Ellington, 1979

4.  The Mills Regime

5.  Ellington Meets Chicago, 1931

6.  Russell Woodward, 1933

7.. Henry Blankfort, 1982

8.  Golden Age

9.  A Crooked Thing

10.  Blue Note Memories 

11.  Nadir

12.  Resurrection

13.  Duke's People

14.  Stanley and Helen Dance, 1982

15.  Coda

16. Bibliography

Appendix:  recommended reading, recordings and filmography