• Acknowledgments
• A Note on the Photographers
• Introduction
• WHAT GOT INTO HIS HEAD: BERNARD STOLLMAN, FOUNDER OF THE LABEL
• IN THE GREAT BEFORE
• Who, Where, When: Beginnings and Departures
• Music and Law: Into the Deep End Fast
• THE RISE AND FALL AND PERSISTENT RESURRECTION OF A CURIOUS RECORD COMPANY
• The Initial Years
• While It Worked
• Decline and Fall
• On Individual Artists
• About Some Records
• A Word or Two on Record Engineers
• Close Encounters in the Music Business
• A Short History of Licensing
• In the Wilderness
• Revival
• ESP-DISK’ AS LIVED AND WITNESSED
• Ishmael Reed
• Gunter Hampel
• John Tchicai
• Paul Thornton
• James Zitro
• Sonny Simmons
• Gary Peacock
• Milford Graves
• Alan Sondheim
• Tom Rapp
• Warren Smith
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Michael Snow
• Marion Brown
• Richard Alderson
• Roswell Rudd
• Montego Joe
• Evan Parker
• Alan Silva
• Giuseppi Logan
• Peter Stampfel
• Burton Greene
• The Coach with the Six Insides: Jean Erdman and Van Dexter
• Leo Feigin
• Erica Pomerance
• Joe Morris
• William Parker
• Ken Vandermark
• Gato Barbieri
• Amiri Baraka
• Michael D. Anderson
• Sal Salgado
• Lindha Kallerdahl
• Sirone
• Sunny Murray
• Marc Albert-Levin
• Jacques Coursil
• Steve Weber
• Steve Stollman
• Index
• Photographs also included
