Music is my mistress

The road

Rollin'

Washington

Categories

Music

Dramatis felidae. Mercer Ellington ; Ruth Dorothea Ellington ; Sidney Bechet ; Fletcher Henderson ; Otto Hardwick ; Sonny Greer ; Elmer Snowden ; Arthur Whetsol ; Juan Tizol ; Jerry Rhea

Night life

New York City

The Big Apple

Dramatis felidae. Willie "The Lion" Smith ; Mexico ; James P. Johnson ; Don Redman ; Will Marion Cook ; Will Vodery ; Charles Shribman ; Chick Webb ; Count Basie ; Lonnie Johnson ; Maceo Pinkard ; Paul Whiteman ; Luckeyeth Roberts ; George Gershwin ; Bubber Miley ; Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton ; Freddy Guy ; Harry Carney ; Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud ; Johnny Hodges ; Cootie Williams ; Freddy Jenkins ; Lawrence Brown ; Ivie Anderson ; Rex Stewart ; Richard Bowden Jones

The city of jazz

Chicago

Toronto

London

Paris

Formative years adjusted

Dramatis felidae. Billy Strayhorn ; Ray Nance ; Ben Webster ; Jimmy Blanton ; Herb Jeffries ; Lena Horne ; Mary Lou Williams ; Art Tatum ; Charlie Barnet ; Mrs. Fitzpatrick White

Jump for joy extension

Doctors and surgeons

I miss

What is music?

I really never miss

Dramatis felidae. Cat Anderson ; Joya Sherrill ; Kay Davis ; Marie Ellington ; Jimmy Hamilton ; Paul Gonsalves ; Shorty Baker ; Russell Procope ; Betty Roché ; Al Hibbler ; Wini Brown ; Louis Bellson ; Jimmy Woode ; Sam Woodyard ; Jimmy Grissom ; John Sanders ; Willie Cook ; Clark Terry ; Ernie Shepard ; Joe Turner ; Jimmy Rushing ; Stepin Fetchit ; Jimmy Jones ; Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser ; Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz ; Frank Sinatra ; Orson Welles ; Jo Jones ; Joe Williams ; Charles Mingus ; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, and 'Trane ; Frank Holzfeind ; Irving Townsend ; George Wein ; Jimmy Lyons ; Timme Rosenkranz ; Tony Bennett ; Coleman Hawkins ; Billy Eckstine ; Mahalia Jackson

Civilization

Seeing God

The sacred concerts

Acclaim

Dramatis felidae. Alice Babs ; Tony Watkins ; Tom Whaley

San Francisco

Hooked

Notes on the State Department tour, 1963

Nipponese journal, 1964-70

Dakar journal, 1966

Goutelas journal, 1966

Latin American journal, 1968

Mexican journal, 1968

Walls

Prague journal, 1969

Russian journal, 1971

Latin American journal, 1971

Pacific journal, 1972

Dramatis felidae. Rufus Jones ; Elma Lewis ; Herbie Jones ; Harold Ashby ; Wild Bill Davis ; Bob Udkoff ; James Latimer

Music and the future

What's happening?

Jazz for young people

At the White House

Public relations

Music and the primeval

Retire to what?

Pedestrian minstrel

Epilogue

The mirrored self

Appendices. The singers ; Arrangers and lyricists ; The symphony orchestras ; Band boys and barbers ; Honors and awards ; Selected discography ; Compositions ; Bibliography.