Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. This Music Demanded Action: Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz 19
6. 2. We Are All a Collage: Armstrong’s Operatic Blues, Bearden’s Black Odyssey, and Morrison’s Jazz 51
7. 3. The “Open Corner” of Black Community and Creativity: From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison 86
8. 4. Hare and Bear: The Racial Politics of Satchmo’s Smile 117
9. 5. The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be Unfinished 167
10. Coda 219
11. Notes 227
12. Index 263