Part I: 1934. Get off at 125th Street, and God be with you
Don Redman sparks the Apollo, John Hammond offers a tour
Stompin' at the Savoy to Might Chick Webb
Take off those shades, we know who you are!
Scat Master Leo Watson zaps it with "Zo-o-o-t!"
From Met Opera to Empire Ballroom
and Benny Carter
At the Shim Sham, a date with Young Billie Holiday
Jake Vandermeulen loses everything by his shorts
At Beefsteak Charlie's, there's Adrian Rollini
Who said Danish Baron? Why, he's just a gigolo!
"My technique terrifies me!" Says Willie "The Lion" Smith
Art Tatum is down at Basement Brown's!
To Fats Waller with Love, Honeysuckle Rosenkrantz
Mezz Mezzrow puts Timme on a little pink cloud
Canceled: Josh Billing's Greenwich Village Gig
At Timme's farewell party, Fats Waller takes a bath
Part II: 1936-1969: Checking out Harlem's other halls of pleasure
Voutie! slim and slam, Wow! Inez Cavanaugh
Plugging a tune to W.C. Handy, cutting a record for RCA Victor
Louis Armstrong kick-Starts the Mel-O-Dee Music Shop
Harry "Father" White, Jitter bugs, and Bill Coleman's Band
Turning off the lights at Mel-O-Dee Music Shop
A Danish Novel Laureate digs Harlem by Night
Eddie Condon and that good Ol'Nicksieland
There is just one king, and he is the Duke
Here lived Diamond Jim Brady and Jazz Baron Rosenkrantz
The stupendous "stuff" of Jazz, Leroy Gordon (Hezekiah) Smith
Discovering, befriending, recording Erroll Garner
A great, big, fat White Christmas '44
Timme's recording service and threatened Jazz concert
Zeb Julian's dream and Claude Thornhill's joke
Bud Powell plays not being there
Jam sessions outlawed? Come to Café Bohemia!
Tatum leads a Black sheep into piano battle at Ruben's
A last record session and tour of haunts
Coleman Hawkins: the Picasso of Jazz.