Contents

• Introductory notes / Robert G. O’Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards and Farah Jasmine Griffin
• Songs of the unsung : the Darby Hicks history of jazz / George Lipsitz
• "All the things you could be by now" : Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus and the limits of Avant-Garde Jazz / Salim Washington
• Experimental music in black and white : the AACM in New York, 1970-1985 / George Lewis
• When Malindy sings : a meditation on black women’s vocality / Farah Jasmine Griffin
• Hipsters, bluebloods, rebels, and hooligans : the cultural politics of the Newport jazz Festival, 1954-1960 / John Gennari
• Mainstreaming monk : the Ellington album / Mark Tucker
• The man / John Szwed
• The real ambassadors / Penny M. Von Eschen
• Artistic othering in black diaspora musics : preliminary thoughts on time, culture, and politics / Kevin Gaines
• Notes on jazz in Senegal / Timothy R. Mangin
• Revisiting Romare Bearden’s art of improvisation / Diedra Harris-Kelley
• Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the aesthetics of swing / Jorge Daniel Veneciano
• Checking our balances : Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop / Robert G. O’Meally
• Paris blues : Ellington, Armstrong, and saying it with music / Krin Gabbard
• "How you sound??" : Amiri Baraka writes free jazz / William J. Harris
• The literary Ellington / Brent Hayes Edwards
• "Always new and centuries old" : jazz, poetry and tradition as creative adaptation / Travis A. Jackson
• A space we’re all immigrants from : othering and communitas in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook / Herman Beavers
• Exploding the narrative in jazz improvisation / Vijay Iyer
• Beneath the underground : exploring new currents in "Jazz" / Robin D. G. Kelley