Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I: THE SOCIETY, THE MUSIC, THE CRITIC
  • 1. Critiquing the critics
  • 2. The Blues People of Leroi Jones
  • 3. Black music: Cold War "secret weapon"
  • PART II: BLACK NATIONALISM AND THE REVOLUTION IN MUSIC
  • 4. Revolution in black music: origin and directions
  • 5. The new black radicalism
  • 6. The "jazz club": an adventure in cockroach capitalism
  • 7. John Coltrane and the black music revolution
  • 8. John Coltrane and Albert Ayler
  • 9. A different drummer: John Coltrane and the revolution in rock
  • PART III: THE ANATOMY OF THE COLTRANE QUARTET
  • 10. Elvin Jones: polyrhythmic innovator
  • 11. McCoy Tyner: an interview
  • 12. John Coltrane: an interview
  • PART IV: MALCOLM X
  • 13. Black revolution and black music: the career of Malcolm X
  • APPENDIX: A selected discography of the recorded works of John Coltrane
  • Notes.