To Be, Or Not-- to Bop

Table of contents - Chronology; Preface; Tan Yo’ Hide; School Days; Ice Cream City; Hard Times; Horns Galore; B-flat . . .; Laurinburg; H.N.I.C.; Becoming Me . . .; Glory Road; Parlez-Vous . . . ?; Lorraine; Stompin’ at the Savoy; World’s Fair; The Flatted Fifth; 'Klook-Mop'; 'Hot Mallets' (9-11-39); Diz the Wiz; Wholly Matrimony; Spitball . . .; Minton's Playhouse; Little John Special; Pickin’ the Cabbage; Incubator; No Dancing; The Onyx; The Downbeat; Hepsations '45; Three Deuces; California; The Spotlight (The Big Band, 1946); Beboppers . . . the Cult; 'To Heaven on a Mule'; Cheeks; Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban; High Seas; Groovin’ High; Godfather; Headache; Playin’ it Cool; Dee Gee Records; Machinations; Bendin’ the Horn; Bird and Diz; School for Jazz; Changes; World Statesman; Samba; Higher than Ike; Ancestry; Striving; Diz for President; The Cruel World; Gettin’ Religion; Dizziness; Evolutions; Honors; Selected Discography; Filmography; Honors and Awards; Index.