"An illustrated exploration of how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art"-- Provided by publisher.

Jazz begins -- The jazz age -- The swing era -- World War II -- Bebop and modern jazz versus the New Orleans revival -- Birth of the cool and West Coast jazz -- The new mainstream -- Changing landscape : Mingus, Coltrane, and Coleman -- Jazz fusions -- Postmodern jazz -- Twenty-first-century jazz.