TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Preface

Introduction

Foreword:  

1.  Jazz Prehistory

2.  Ellington: Origins and Early Development

3.  Mercer Ellington, 1979

4.  The Mills Regime

5.  Ellington Meets Chicago, 1931

6. Henry Blankfort, 1982

7.  Golden Age

8.  Henry Blankfort, 1982

9.  A Crooked Thing

10. Blue Note Memories 

11.  Nadir

12.  Resurrection

13.  Stanley and Helen Oakley Dance, 1982

14.  Coda

Appendix:  selected discography and filmography

acknowledgements

end notes

bibliography