pt. 1. Essays. Griot/Djali : poetry, music, history, message

Miles later

The "Blues aesthetic" and the "Black aesthetic" : aesthetics as the continuing political history of a culture

Blues people : looking both ways

Rhythm

The American popular song : "The great American song book"

Blues line

Cosby and the music

Nina returns

Jazz criticism and its effect on the music

Not "the Boss" : Bruce Springsteen

Wynton Marsalis : Black codes (from the Underground)

"The international business of jazz" and the need for the cooperative and collective self-development of an international people's culture

Newark's' "Coast" and the hidden legacy of urban culture

Black music as a force for social change

What you mean, DuWop?

Classical American music

Singers and the music (A theater piece)

Newark's influence on American music

Ritual and performance

Bopera theory

"Jazz and the white critic" : thirty years later

Random notes on the last decade.

pt. 2. Great musicians. Panthalassa : Miles Davis

When Miles split!

David Murray, Ming's samba

David Murray, Fo deuk revue

David Murray, addenda to a concert

On reissuing Trane

John Coltrane : why his legacy continues

Some memories of Alan Shorter : interview with Wayne Shorter

High art : Art Tatum

Max Roach at the Iridium

Paris Max

The great Max Roach

Billie Holiday

The high priest of Bebop

Eric Dolphy : a note

Jackie Mc

It ain't about you

You ever hear Albert Ayler?

Albert's will

Sassy was definitely not the Avon lady

Fred

Fred Hopkins's memorial

Duke Ellington : the music's "great spirit"

Duke was a very great pianist!

Blind Tom : the continuity of Americana

Don Pullen leaves us

Black history month rediscovers "the music" in New York City

Black history month rediscovers "the music," part 2 : the Charles Tolliver big band at the Jazz Standard

Wonderful Stevie

Abbey Lincoln

Four tough good-byes : Jackie McLean, John Hicks, Hilton Ruiz, Halim Suliman.

pt. 3. Notes, reviews, and observations. Impulse sampler, Act on impulse

Ralph Peterson

Andrew Cyrille, Good to go

Odean Pope saxophone choir, Epitome

Ravi Coltrane, Moving pictures

Donal Fox and David Murray, Ugly beauty

Tyrone Jefferson, Connections

James Moody

Barry Harris : in the tradition

Pharoah Sanders, Shukuru

Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet, Breakthrough

Von and Chico Freeman, Freeman and Freeman

Alan Shorter, Orgasm

The work man : Reggie Workman

Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory

Jimmy Scott, But beautiful

Malachi Thompson, Talking horns

The Nexus Orchestra, Seize the time

Three fresh ticklers

Rodney Kendrick, Last chance for common sense

Jazz times review, multiple artists

More young bloods to the rescue!

Vijay Iyer, Memorophilia

TriFactor, If you believe

Live lessons

New York Art Quintet

Peter Brötzmann, Nipples, and Joe McPhee, Nation time

Jon Jang and David Murray, River of life

Trio Three, Encounter

Jackie Mc

Coming and going.