Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz
Not only a new art form but a new reason for living
As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting
Across the color line
Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz
Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism
Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport
The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism
Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker
Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents
Conclusion : change of the century.