Table of Contents: “…Louis blues -- Improvisation review -- Early Jazz -- Louis Armstrong -- Improvising on the melody -- Performance spotlight -- Building the blue scale -- Riffs and licks -- jazz expression -- Bends and Scoops -- Improvising with questions and answers (call and response) -- The swing era -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Performance Spotlight -- Bebop -- Theory review - The Dominant scale (The mixolydian mode) -- Bebop uses "Wrong# notes (chromatic ornamentation) -- The bebop lick -- Bebop scale -- Charlie Parker -- Dizzie Gillespie -- Performnace Spotlight -- Latin and rock styles -- Salsa caliente -- Theory review. …”