Timbre of the Times
Jazz Roots, 1890-1935

Swing Era | Cool Jazz and Hard Bop

Jazz Fiction

• Chapter VI, from The Autobiography of an Excolored Man , James Weldon Johnson, 1927
• "Common Meter," , Rudolph Fisher, 1930
• "The Blues I'm Playing,", Langston Hughes, 1934

Jazz and the Talkies

• The Jazz Singer, 1927
• The King of Jazz, 1929

Jazz and Visual Art

• Art Gallery