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Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic
Improvisation by Gunther Schuller 6
Walter Page's Story as told to Frank Driggs 12
The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz, I
by Mimi Clar 16
Missing Moderns by Martin Williams 19
A View of Criticism by William Russo 20
Reviews: Recordings
Thelonious Monk by Gunther Schuller 22
Miles Davis by Dick Katz 28
Billie Holiday by Glenn Coulter 31
Langston Hughes by Glenn Coulter 33
John Lewis by Bob Brookmeyer 33
Miles Davis by Bob Brookmeyer 34
Jimmy Giuffre 3 by George Russell 35
Horace Silver by Bill Crow 35
King Oliver by Larry Gushee 36
Sonny Rollins by Art Farmer 37
Jelly Roll Morton by Guy Waterman 38
The Great Blues Singers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jimmy Rushing, Muddy Watters,
Little Walter by Hsio Wen Shih 39
Reviews: Books
John Clellon Holmes' The Horn by Orrin Keepnews 42
Shapiro-Hentoff The Jazz Makers by Glenn Coulter 43
Ralph Gleason's Jam Session by Orrin Keepnews 44
Barry Ulanov's Handbook of Jazz by Benny Green 44
Hugues Panassie's Discographie Critique Des Meilleurs
Disques de Jazz by Nat Hentoff 45
Reconsiderations 1 (Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller) by Martin William 46
The Blues 46
Jazz in Print by Nat Hentoff 47