Poetry / by Amina Baraka. The things I love ; No name poem ; Birth right ; High society ; Blues ; For Tom White ; For the lady in color ; Hip songs ; For Pharaoh Sanders ; All is one for Monk ; For Abbey Lincoln ; For John Hicks ; For jazz ; For Jerry Butler ; No-mo blues

Poetry / by Amira Baraka. Obalaji as drummer, Ras as poet ; I love music ; Bang/bang outishly ; The speed ; In walked Bud ; Caution: a disco near you wails death funk ; At Roseland ; The wayfarers ; Choruses ; I felt sad ... ; Early cool ; A snide aside ; Keep right on playin ... ; New music ; The aesthetic ; Portrait ; Stomp (funk world) ; Water music ; Jazz notes ; Abby and Duke ; RhythmBlues ; Shazam Doowah ; The rare birds ; The real construction ; More Trane than art ; Reggae or not! ; Class struggle in music ; In the tradition ; For Sylvia or Amina ; Wailers ; Reflections ; The lady ; Real song is a dangerous number

Musical. Primitive world: an anti-nuclear jazz musical

Essays / by Amiri Baraka. Where's the music going and why? ; Greenwich Village and African-American music ; Milestones 1 by Jack Chambers ; Woody Shaw/Woody Three! ; Masters in collaboration ; Cecil McBee/Flying Out ; Craig Harris/Aboriginal Affairs ; Jay Hoggard/Solo album/India Navigation ; Jay Hoggard/Mystic Winds ; To be or not to bop: a biography of Dizzy Gillespie by Al Frazier ; Dear Roger Riggins ; Dennis Moorman/Circles of Destiny ; Gil Scott Heron ; Bob Neloms/Pretty music ; New Music/New Poetry ; Chico Freeman/The Outside Within ; Ricky Ford/Future's Gold ; Jazz writing: survival in the eighties ; Blues, poetry, and the new music ; The phenomenon of Soul in African-American music ; A tribute to Bird ; Afro pop ; Billie ; Miles Davis: "one of the great mother fuckers" ; Class struggle in music ; The great music robbery.