Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279), discographies, and index.
Sedalia and St. Louis : ragtime -- New Orleans jazz -- Chicago : classic jazz -- New York : the classic jazz and swing eras -- Kansas City swing, the territory bands, and the San Francisco revival -- New York bebop, Latin, and cool jazz -- Los Angeles : West Coast cool jazz -- New York : hard bop and soul jazz -- New York : free jazz and the avant-garde -- Chicago : the avant-garde -- New Orleans : the young lions -- Modern jazz : fusion and beyond.
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Focuses on the music's development that resulted in different styles and approaches to jazz improvisation being created in different cities and areas of the country.