The Oxford companion to jazz / edited by Bill Kirchner.

African roots of jazz
European roots of jazz
Ragtime then and now
The early origins of jazz
New York roots: Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists
The blues in jazz
Bessie Smith
King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet: Ménage à trois, New Orleans style
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke
Duke Ellington
Hot music in the 1920s: the "Jazz Age," appearances and realities
Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s
Coleman Hawkins
Lester Young
Streamlining jazz: major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s
Jazz singing: between blues and bebop
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday
Jazz and the American song
Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging
Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging
The advent of bebop
The New Orleans revival
Charlie Parker
Cool jazz and West Coast jazz
Jazz and classical music: to the third stream and beyond
Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s
Hard bop
Miles Davis
Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II
Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
The avant-garde, 1949-1967
Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s
Jazz singing since the 1940s
Jazz since 1968
Fusion
Jazz repertory
Latin jazz
Jazz in Europe: the real world music or the full circle
Jazz and Brazilian music
Jazz in Africa: the ins and outs
Jazz in Japan
Jazz in Canada and Australia
The clarinet in jazz
The saxophone in jazz
The trumpet in jazz
The trombone in jazz
The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz: batteries not included
Miscellaneous instruments in jazz
The bass in jazz
Jazz drumming
Jazz and dance
Jazz and film and television
Jazz clubs
Jazz and American literature
Jazz criticism
Jazz education
Recorded jazz
Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity.