The pre-jazz era (1895-1919)
The riverboats and the 1920s (1919-1929)
St. Louis in the 1930s: the Plantation Club, the unions, and the decline of the riverboats (1930-1939)
The war years: Jimmy Blanton, Miles Davis's St. Louis years, and the inception of jazz radio in St. Louis (1939-1949)
The jazz scene in St. Louis in the 1950s (1949-1960)
The rise & fall of Gaslight Square (1959-1967)
The polarization of St. Louis jazz: traditional jazz and BAG (1968-1973)
Epilogue
Appendix: Charter members of the St. Louis Jazz Club.