Origins: Precursors ; Classic jazz ; Piano jazz ; Rise of the big bands ; International jazz to World War II -- From Swing to bop: Small groups in transition ; Birth of bebop ; Big-band bebop ; Dissemination ; Jazz singing to 1950 ; New Orleans revival and mainstream jazz -- Consolidation of bebop: Early Miles Davis ; Hard bop and souel-jazz ; Cool jazz and west coast movement ; Big band in transition -- New jazz: Coltrane and mingus ; Free jazz ; Jazz as world music ; Jazz fusions ; Postmodern jazz

1. Jazz -- History and criticism