This book contains a wealth of photographs documenting the period, and has over 150 album covers reproduced.

The book is accompanied by a free CD, a choice of John Surman's Morning Glory or Mike Osborne's Outback, both released on the FMR label, containing music performed by musicians active during this time.

VOLUME TWO of this book is yet to be published.

CONTENTS:
A Little Backtracking: the issue of race; European inflexions; Dankworth; The Jazz Couriers; Ronnie Scott's club; Don Rendell; Stan Tracey; Bobby Wellins; Humphrey Lyttelton; revivalism; Alexis Korner
The Breakthrough: modalism; free jazz; Joe Harriott; Michael Garrick; Ian Carr; Indo-jazz; jazz & serialism; Tubby Hayes & Stan Tracey
From Jazz to Rock: Alexis Korner & Graham Bond; the venues; soul; blues-rock; folk & blues
New Wave Jazz in Britain: The Beginnings: Paul Rutherford, Trevor Watts & John Stevens; Mike Osborne & Harry Miller; The New Jazz Orchestra; Henry Lowther; Peter Lemer; Mike Westbrook; AMM; exiles from South Africa; Little Theatre Club; The Spontaneous Music Ensemble; Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey; Howard Riley; Evan Parker
The Old Place - and Its Aftermath: Peter Lemer groups; Mike Westbrook Concert Band; Chris McGregor; Graham Collier; Mike Gibbs; Kenny Wheeler; John Surman; Alan Skidmore; Harry Beckett; John Taylor; Norma Winstone; Mike Osborne; The Brotherhood of Breath
Experimentalism in Rock: the underground backdrop (Pink Floyd); Soft Machine; Gong; Kevin Ayers; Lol Coxhill; Caravan; Egg; Matching Mole; progressive rock
Confluences & Divergences: The JCS & the Musician's Co-operative; Evan Parker & Tony Oxley; London Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Jazz-Rock - the Beginnings: Frank Ricotti; Ray Russell & Bob Downes; Keith Tippett; Solid Gold Cadillac; Nucleus
Surviving Into the 1970s - the Modern Mainstream: Dick Morrisey; Ronnie Scott; Tony Coe; Gordon Beck; Don Rendell & Michael Garrick; Henry Lowther; The Bebop Preservation Society; Bobby Wellins
Rise of an English school of post-bop: John Surman; Norma Winstone & John Taylor; Kenny Wheeler
UK Progressive Rock & Fusion in the 1970s: Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond; Nucleus; Pacific Eardrum; Paz; Barbara Thompson; Jon Hiseman; Gary Boyle's Fusion; Soft Machine; Henry Cow; National Health; Robert Wyatt; King Crimson, Bill Bruford & Annette Peacock; Don Weller & Major Surgery; Back Door; Harry Beckett; Paul Buckmaster & Francis Monkman; Head; Brand X
The Tippett/Dean/Osborne Axis of Free Jazz
The South Africans
John Stevens, Trevor Watts & Stan Tracey: Women in Jazz
Mavericks: The Amazing Band; Lol Coxhill; Ken Hyder & Talisker; Ray Russell & Gary Windo; Bob Downes; Arman Ratip; Mike Cooper; John Martyn & Danny Thompson
Mike Westbrook in the 1970s
Out in the Cold: Graham Collier & the NYJO generation
Second Generation Improvisers
A New Snythesis Begins

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read Simon Spillett's essays on major British jazz saxophonist stylists after 1950, British brass and British jazz pianists, and his essay Yellow Birds: West Indian Jazz Musicians in London and on Tubby Hayes

read an interview with Michael Garrick

read an essay on Joe Harriott