Musical orientation: elements and instruments
Jazz form and improvisation
Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists
Count Basie and Duke Ellington
The 1950s: cool jazz and hard bop
Jazz composition in the 1950s
Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Fusion I : R&B, singers, and Latin jazz
Fusion II: jazz, rock, and beyond
Historicism: jazz on jazz
Selected musicians on primary jazz instruments
Collecting jazz recordings
