375 pages, 46 chapters with an Introduction, Prologue and Epilogue about Jazz on the West Coast from 1945-1965. This 3rd volume includes features on Gerald Wilson, Nocturne, Pacific Jazz and Contemporary Records, The Mastersounds, Russ Freeman, Shelly's Manne Hole, Art Pepper, Charlie Mariano, Sonny Criss, Curtis Amy, Bobby Troup, Paul Horn, Joe Pass, Clare Fischer, The Jazz Crusaders and many more. The primary emphasis of this third reader in a series is the transition of Jazz on the West Coast into the decade of the 1960s.