ALL of the essays are now included in this index—and I will add each new one when it’s published. I am indexing by the main subjects in the title of the essay. (But I’m not indexing every name that might be mentioned in the body of the essay.) When you click on each link below, it will take you to every essay on that topic, in reverse chronological order, latest one listed on top. If you find that one of my essays is not in the index, please let me know. THANK YOU!
Adams,Pepper
African music
Allen,Red
Anderson,Ivie
Armstrong, Lil Hardin
Armstrong, Louis
Asmussen, Svend
Baker, Chet
Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
Basie, Count
Beastie Boys
Bebop
Beiderbecke,Bix
Beirach,Richie
Blakey, Art
Blanton, Jimmie
Bley, Paul
Brown, Clifford
Brubeck,Dave
Burns,Ken
Byas,Don
Carter,Benny
Chaloff,Serge
Cherry, Don
Christian, Charlie
Clark, Sonny
Cole, Nat
Coleman, Ornette
Coltrane, John
Coltrane,Alice
Copyrights
Criss,Sonny
Curry,Irma
Dameron,Tadd
Dance
Davis, Miles
Davis,Art
DeJohnette,Jack
Delta Rhythm Boys
Dolphy, Eric
Dorham,Kenny
Douglass, Frederick
Drummers
Eckstine,Billy
Eldridge, Roy
Ellington, Duke
Evans, Bill
Farmer, Art
Farrow, Ernie
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fortune, Sonny
Garrison,Jimmy
Getz,Stan
Gibbs, Terry
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gitler, Ira
Gordon, Dexter
Gray,Wardell
Gryce, Gigi
Hagood, Kenny
Hale,Corky
Hall, Jim
Hamm, Charles
Hampton, Lionel
Hancock, Herbie
Hand, Peter
Harris, Marion
Hasaan Ibn Ali
Hawkins, Coleman
Haynes,Roy
Heath, Jimmy
Henderson, Joe
Higginbotham,J.C.
Hill, Andrew
Hines,Earl
Hinton,Milt
Hodges,Johnny
Holiday, Billie
Holiday,Clarence
Holland,Dave
Hubbard, Freddie
Hughes,Langston
Ibrahim, Abdullah (Brand)
Indian music
Interviews by Dahlgren
Jarrett,Keith
Jazz, The Word
Jefferson,Eddie
Johnson, James P.
Johnson,Sy
Jones,Elvin
Jones,James Earl
Jones,Quincy
Kelley,Peck
Keppard,Freddie
Kilgallen, Dorothy
king, BB
King, Dr.
Konitz, Lee
Krupa, Gene
La Roca, Pete
Lacy, Steve
Last Poets, The
Lateef,Yusef
Little, Booker
Lloyd,Charles
Lunceford, Jimmie
Mangione, Chuck
Manone,Wingy
Marsalis,Wynton
Marsh, Warne
McClure,Ron
Millinder, Lucky
Mingus, Charles
Monk, Thelonious
Montgomery, Wes
Morgan, Lee
Morgenstern, Dan
Morton, Jelly Roll
Murray, David
Navarro, Fats
Nelson,Oliver
Nicholas, Big Nick
Oliver, King Joe
Overview of Series
Page, Hot Lips
Page, Walter
Palmer,Bee
Paris,Jackie
Parker, Charlie
Penton,Kay
Pleasure,King
Pollard, Terry
Polls
Porter, Lew’s Activities
Porter, Lew’s Memories
Powell, Bud
Ra, Sun
Race and Racism
Raney, Jimmy
Redman, Don
Reference Sources
Rich, Buddy
Ridley,Larry
Roach, Max
Rollins, Sonny
Ross, Annie
Russell, George
Sanders, Pharoah
Schuller,Gunther
Scott,Hazel
Scott,Jimmy, “Little”
Shearing, George
Shepp, Archie
Shorter, Wayne
Simon, Paul
Sinatra, Frank
Singing
Smith, Willie the Lion
Smith, Willie, sax
Smith,Stuff
Smock,Ginger
South, Eddie
Stitt, Sonny
Strayhorn, Billy
Tatum, Art
Taylor, Billy
Taylor, Cecil
Teagarden, Jack
Thompson, Lucky
Tristano, Lennie
Trumbauer, Frank
Tyner,McCoy
Vaughan, Sarah
Violin Jazz from Barnett
Washington,Ernie
Webster, Freddie
Whiteman,Paul
Williams, Tony
Wilson,Brian
X, Malcolm
Young, Lester