Prelude; 1. "Down Home Rag"; 2. "Washington Post March"; 3. "On the Gay Luneta"; 4. "Lorraine Waltzes"; 5. "The Clef Club March"; 6. "What It Takes to Make Me Love You -- You've Got It"; 7. "Castle House Rag"; 8. "The National Negro March"; 9. Watch Your Step; 10. "The Rat-A-Tat Drummer Boy"; 11. "The Separate Battalion"; 12. "Over There"; 13. "On Patrol in No Man's Land"; 14. Filling France Full of Jazz; 15. "All of No Man's Land Is Ours"; 16. "Flee as a Bird"; Coda; Appendix 1 The Musical Compositions of James Reese Europe; Appendix 2 James Reese Europe Discography; Notes; Index; A
Summary
James Reese Europe is one of the important transitional figures in American music. As a composer at the height of ragtime, he had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals much about the role of black musicians in American culture in a period when it was presumed they had little place
