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AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), 53 Abercrombie, John, 117, 248n12 Acuña, Claudia, 45 Adderley, Julian “Cannonball,” 41 Aebersold, Jamey, 86 AFM (American Federation of Musicians), 61, 62, 70–71, 76, 93 African American churches, 127–28, 152 Alden, Howard, 75 Alexander, Monty, 90, 129 Alexander, Willard, 60 Allen, Geri, 53 Allison, Mose, 45, 243n10 All Things Considered (radio program), 103 “Alter Ego,” 160 American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 61, 62, 70–71, 76, 93 America’s classical music, 3–4, 32, 48, 133 Anderson, Jim, 160–68 Anderson, Wessell, 188 Armstrong, Louis, 28, 33 artist biography, 21, 96 Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), 53 Atlantic Records, 75, 92, 213 Atlantic, The, 67 audiences, 78–84; behavior of during musical events, 82–83; camaraderie between members of, 82, 92; characterizations of, 118–19; comparisons between, 118–19; as culturally informed, 6; demographic information regarding, 78–81; differing levels of engagement of, 81–82, 83; distinctions between fans and spectators in, 82; overlapping roles on the jazz scene of, 81; responses of to musical events, 83, 116, 118–19, 122–23, 123–24, 127–28, 144, 152–53, 158, 177, 182, 184, 190–91, 192, 193–95, 197–98, 199, 201 Augie’s Pub, 88 avant-garde jazz, 6, 80 Avatar Studios, 159–67, 170, 245n27, 255nn5,6 Bailey, Derek, 5 Baker, Anita, 6, 79, 80 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 12 balance of musical parameters, 112–14 Balliett, Whitney, 35 Band-in-a-Box, 42 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 14, 101 Barron, Kenny, 197–98 Barth, Bruce, 44–45, 77, 84, 90, 104, 110–11, 114, 129, 163, 169–80 Baskin-Watson, Pamela, 160 bebop, 6, 10, 37, 84, 115, 162, 203, 257n31 Becker, Howard S., 105 Beiderbecke, Bix, 33 “Belief,” 171 Bell, Catherine, 138–41 Index 289 290 | Index Benson, George, 46, 258n38 Berger, David, 42 Berkeley High School, 40 Berklee College of Music, 41, 43, 44, 84, 85, 113, 117, 133, 240n24, 249n14 Berliner, Paul, 39, 83, 210 Bernstein, Peter, 16, 46, 85, 86, 104–105, 114, 116–17, 121, 122, 129, 145, 180–187 Birdland, 88, 89, 91 Birth of the Cool, The, 36 Bitter End, The, 52 black aesthetic, 125–26 Blade, Brian, 53, 188–96, 246n34 Blake, Seamus, 85 Blakey, Art, 37, 45, 122, 129, 249n16, 251n29; and the Jazz Messengers, 44, 72, 86, 118, 240n25 Blanchard, Terence, 43, 94, 111–12 blessed recordings, 19, 197, 236n31 Blue Lake Arts Camp, 85, 97 blue note, 248n8 Blue Note (club), 51, 83, 89, 163, 253n7, 255n10 Blue Note Records, 10, 97, 214; superior quality of the recordings of, 234n20 blues, 47 blues aesthetic, 109, 125–35, 153, 159, 162; African American culture in, 116–19; balancing musical parameters in, 112–14; black aesthetic and, 125–26; blues feeling/soulfulness and, 114–15, 118–19, 127, 199–200; blue tonality and, 114–15; bringing something to the music as element of, 119–21; connections of to other aesthetics, 131–35; dissolution of, 132, 212; elements of, 110; foundations of, 127, 134–35; individual sound in, 110–12, 130, 162, 187, 207; openness as an element of, 121–23, 127, 145, 189; taking it to the next level as an element of, 110, 122–25, 134, 206–207, 210, 250n20 Blumenfeld, Larry, 101 Blumenthal, Bob, 101 Blynn, Sharon, 16, 152 Blythe, Arthur, 29–30 BMG Records (Novus), 98, 197, 213, 245n27, 246n34 Bolleman, Max, 171–80, 182, 184 Bona, Richard, 99, 213 bop, 6, 10, 37, 84, 115, 162, 203, 257n31 Bourdieu, Pierre, 139, 140, 249n13, 251n27 Bradley’s, 18, 51, 73, 152, 169 Braxton, Anthony, 238nn9,10 Bretton Woods agreement, 62–63 Briggs, Charles L., 19 Brinner, Benjamin, 35 Brooklyn, New York, 71–72, 88, 242n3 Brown, Donald, 113 Bryant Park, 89 Burns, Ken, 70,237n5, 238n7 Burton, Gary, 43 cabarets, 57–58; identification cards and, 61; laws regulating, 60–62. See also performance venues Cadence (magazine), 16 “Carolina Shout,” 40 Carter, Betty, 112, 118, 188, 243n10 Carter, James, 53, 75, 85, 243n9 Carter, Ron, 159 Cary, Marc, 256n12 CBS Records, 65, 233n14 CD 101.9, 5–6, 80 “Certain Attitude, A,” 160–61 Chambers, Joe, 42 Chambers, Paul, 117 Chambers, Pierre, 162 Charlie Parker Festival, 89 Charters, Samuel, 59–60 Chevigny, Paul, 60–62 Chiasson, Warren, 62 churches, African American, 127–28, 152 cities: gentrification and, 64; shift from manufacturing to services, 63; tax revenue and, 62–64, 214; tourism and, 60, 63, 64, 66, 81, 88, 89, 90; “white flight...

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