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NMAHMAI copy 39088007252257 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by Thomas Devine on June 25, 2019. Prologue -- The road ACT ONE. Rollin' [that is, Rolling] -- Washington -- Categories -- Music -- Dramatis felidae : Mercer Ellington ; Ruth Dorothea Ellington ; Sidney Bechet ; Fletcher Henderson ; Otto Hardwick ; Sonny Greer ; Elmer Snowden ; Arthur Whetsol ; Juan Tizol ; Jerry Rhea ACT TWO. Night life -- New York City -- The Big Apple -- Dramatis felidae : Willie "The Lion" Smith ; Mexico ; James P. Johnson ; Don Redman ; Will Marion Cook ; Will Vodery ; Charles Shribman ; Chick Webb ; Count Basie ; Lonnie Johnson ; Maceo Pinkard ; Paul Whiteman ; Luckeyeth Roberts ; George Gershwin ; Bubber Miley ; Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton ; Freddy Guy ; Harry Carney ; Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud ; Johnny Hodges ; Cootie Williams ; Freddy Jenkins ; Lawrence Brown ; Ivie Anderson ; Rex Stewart ; Richard Bowden Jones ACT THREE. The city of jazz -- Chicago -- Toronto -- London -- Paris ACT FOUR. Formative years adjusted -- Dramatis felidae : Billy Strayhorn ; Ray Nance ; Ben Webster ; Jimmy Blanton ; Herb Jeffries ; Lena Horne ; Mary Lou Williams ; Art Tatum ; Charlie Barnet ; Mrs. Fitzpatrick White ACT FIVE. Jump for joy extension -- Doctors and surgeons -- I miss -- What is music? -- I really never miss -- Dramatis felidae : Cat Anderson ; Joya Sherrill ; Kay Davis ; Marie Ellington ; Jimmy Hamilton ; Paul Gonsalves ; Shorty Baker ; Russell Procope ; Betty Roché ; Al Hibbler ; Wini Brown ; Louis Bellson ; Jimmy Woode ; Sammy Woodyard ; Jimmy Grissom ; John Sanders ; Willie Cook ; Clark Terry ; Ernie Shepard ; Joe Turner ; Jimmy Rushing ; Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry] ; Jimmy Jones ; Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser ; Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz ; Frank Sinatra ; Orson Welles ; Jo Jones ; Joe Williams ; Charles Mingus ; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles [Davis], and 'Trane [that is, John Coltrane] ; Frank Holzfeind ; Irving Townsend ; George Wein ; Jimmy Lyons ; Timme Rosenkranz ; Tony Bennett ; Coleman Hawkins ; Billy Eckstine ; Mahalia Jackson ACT SIX. Civilization -- Seeing God -- The sacred concerts -- Acclaim -- Dramatis felidae : Brock Peters ; Alice Babs ; Tony Watkins ; Tom Whaley ACT SEVEN. San Francisco -- Hooked -- Notes on the State Department tour, 1963 -- Nipponese journal, 1964-1970 -- Dakar journal, 1966 -- Goutelas journal, 1966 -- Latin American journal, 1968 -- Mexican journal, 1968 -- Walls -- Prague journal, 1969 -- Russian journal, 1971 -- Latin American journal, 1971 -- Pacific journal, 1972 -- The Taste Buds -- Dramatis felidae : Rufus Jones ; Elma Lewis ; Herbie Jones ; Harold Ashby ; Wild Bill Davis ; Bob Udkoff ; James Latimer ACT EIGHT. Music and the future -- What's happening? -- Jazz for young people -- At the White House -- Public relations -- Music and the primeval -- Retire to what? -- Pedestrian minstrel Epilogue -- The mirrored self Appendices : The singers ; Arrangers and lyricists ; The symphony orchestra ; Band boys and barbers ; Honors and awards ; Selected discography ; Compositions ; Bibliography Contains primary source material. xv, 522 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 27 cm