Jazz Writings.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: 'The Natural Noise of Good' -- Prelude -- Part One: Reviews in Newspapers and Periodicals -- 1 The Mighty Mezz -- 2 The New Bohemia -- 3 Jazz -- 4 Harsh and Bitter-Sweet -- 5 Bad Bold Beauty -- 6 Such Sweet Thunder -- 7 Mouldie Figges -- 8 Blues from the Brickyards -- 9 Jazz in Society -- 10 Music of the Negro -- 11 A Racial Art -- 12 A Real Musicianer -- 13 The Critic as Hipster -- 14 With Not-So-Silent Friends -- 15 Lives of the Poets -- 16 Bunk's Boy -- 17 The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band -- 18 Should Jazz Be an Art? -- 19 Jazz and the White Americans -- 20 On the Wing -- 21 Timbres Varied -- 22 Testifyin' to the Blues Tradition -- 23 Lovely Gigs -- 24 Didn't They Ramble -- 25 Very Good Friend -- 26 Soul Food -- 27 Gulliver's Travails -- 28 Disagreeable to Unbearable -- 29 Jazzmen -- 30 The New Yorker Beat -- 31 Byways of the Blues -- 32 Unacknowledged Legislators -- 33 Music to Stand up To -- 34 Jazz-Man's Sound and Fury -- 35 Satchmo Still -- 36 In Benny Goodman's Golden Days -- 37 Negroes of Europe -- 38 Bessie &amp -- Billie -- 39 Birdlife -- 40 Calling the Tune -- 41 That Nice Boy -- 42 Getting the Gigs -- 43 A Jazzman's Frenzied Fragments -- 44 Top Band Talk -- 45 Crows and Daws -- 46 Wandering Minstrels -- 47 Pleasing the People -- 48 Home Cooking -- Part One: Notes -- Part Two: A Miscellany of Essays, Book Reports and Letters -- 49 Essay for Weekend Telegraph -- 50 Thesis Report for the Library Association -- 51 Letter Concerning The Literature of Jazz -- 52 Book Report for Oxford University Press -- 53 Book Review for Library Association Record, LXII, 12 -- 54 Letter to Terry Henebery -- 55 Book Report for Faber &amp -- Faber -- 56 Essay on Duke Ellington in Makers of Modern Culture -- Part Two: Notes.

Part Three: Daily Telegraph Records of the Year, 1961-70 -- 57 1961 -- 58 1962 -- 59 1963 -- 60 1964 -- 61 1965 -- 62 1966 -- 63 1967 -- 64 1968 -- 65 1969 -- 66 1970 -- 67 Postscript: Larkin's First Essay on Jazz (1940) -- The Art of Jazz -- Addenda -- 68 Melody Maker Jazz Critics' Poll 1965 -- 69 Lines Written On Louis Armstrong's Death -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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