Riff, remembrance, and revision -- Listening to what the ear demands : Langston Hughes on the (jazz) record -- Jazz prosody : the gendered contours of the post-soul Coltrane poem -- New traditions, new translations -- Opening the canary's cage : sex, gender, and the jazz body -- A cave canem continuum or a dark room renaissance : from jazz improvisation to hip-hop stylization -- Epilogue -- When the muse is music: scripting collaboration and improvisation.