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Jazz A to Z provides an authoritative guide to 48 jazz musicians the author considers to be the originators and innovators, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker and "Fats" Waller. The entries give an account of the musician's life (often tragic), their style, significance, best recordings, the type of jazz they played, and some musical context. Many other jazz musicians beside the subject of the entry are discussed in the chapters. The styles covered include New Orleans, swing, bebop, hard bop, west coast cool and free bop. The text is enlivened by vivid black and white portraits of the various musicians. Written in an engaging, accessible style, this is an authoritative guide to jazz that will be of great value to the novice and of much interest to aficionados.

Mivart's essay on evolution rewards the meditative reader. Mivart provides a brief but cogent outline of the changing circumstances and variations in thought that over centuries facilitated the development of naturalism and atheistic evolution. This sort of background is particularly useful because each generation, enmeshed in the peculiar conditions of their own time, often neglects to explore the past cultural twists, oversights, discoveries and aberrations that led to today's assumptions and outlook. Mivart also highlights the internal contradictions that fracture naturalism and he indicates some of the problems in the evidence used to support atheistic evolution. These fractures and variations of these evidential problems remain today.