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Neither its authors now I contend this is the only list anyone can assemble. These songs do, however, offer demonstations of the convergence of the six musical streams into the seventh stream - rock 'n' roll.

In June, 1943, drunken servicemen rampaged for seven days through the Los Angeles barrio, beating up Hispanic youths and tearing off their zoot suits, and in July, 1944, a young promoter named Norman Granz held a benefit jazz concert at Los Angeles' Philharmonic Hall to raise money for latinos jailed during the violence.

That concert produced a record that had a profound influence on popular music. It was one of the first "live" recordings. Two of the jazz players on this record would become popular stars.

The pianist, who already had two rhythm 'n' blues hits, was Nathaniel Adams Cole, born in Montgomery, Alabama whose family had migrated while he was still young to Chicago. Under contract to Capitol Records, he signed his name Slim Nadine, using his wife's first name as his last. Cole's regular guitarist could not appear, so the pianist asked Les Paul to sit is. Paul was in the Army and not allowed to record; he too used a pseudonym - Paul Leslie.

But the star was Jean-Battiste Illinois Jacquet, born in 1931 in Louisiana and raised in Houston. He had moved to Los Angeles in 1941 and had played for Lionel Hampton and Cab Calloway. His playing on this record elevated the honking and squaeling style of saxophone playing that would become a stable