Jazz and the white critic -- Minton's -- Dark lady of the sonnets -- Recent monk -- Three ways to play the saxophone -- A day with Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz) -- A jazz great: John Coltrane -- Coltrane live at Birdland -- The jazz avant-garde -- Introducing Wayne Shorter -- Introducing Dennis Charles -- New York loft and coffee shop jazz -- Introducing Bobby Bradford -- Present perfect (Cecil Taylor) -- Cecil Taylor (The World of Cecil Taylor) -- Apple cores #1 -- Apple cores #2 -- Apple cores #3 -- Apple cores #4 -- Apple cores #5 -- The Burton Greene affair -- Apple cores #6 -- New tenor Archie Shepp talking -- Four for Trane (Archie Shepp) -- Don Cherry -- New black music: A concert in benefit of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School Live -- Sonny's time now (Sonny Murray) -- The changing same (R & B and new black music) -- A brief discography of new music