CONTENTS: Louis Armstrong from 1924 to 1931; Earl Hines; Bix Beiderbecke; The Chicagoans; Fats Waller & James P. Johnson; Jack Teagarden; Fletcher Henderson & Don Redman; Bessie Smith; Eddie Lang.

The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world. Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson - these giants set the standards for blues singing, big band arrangements, and solo improvisation that are the foundations for jazz. Richard Hadlock has chapters on each, with a discography and descriptions of all the players who made the 1920s swing.

RICHARD HADLOCK has written jazz criticism for Down Beat, The Jazz Review, Jazz Quarterly, Metronome, as well as The New York Times. He has hosted one of the longest running Jazz radio shows, The Annals of Jazz, on Station KCSM in San Mateo, California.

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