The freedom principle : jazz after 1958
In this critical historical survey of today's jazz, John Litweiler traces the evolution of the new music through such artists as Coleman, Coltrane, Davis, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Albert Ayler and others.
Print Book, English, [1990], ©1984
Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y., [1990], ©1984
Criticism, interpretation, etc
324 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780306803772, 0306803771
20632364
Steps in search for freedom; Ornette Coleman - the birth of freedom; Eric Dolphy; John Coltrane - the passion for freedom; transition - Miles Davis and modal jazz; the free jazz underground and Sun Ra; Albert Ayler; Chicago, sound and space, and St Louis; Cecil Taylor; pop-jazz, fusion and romanticism; free jazz in Europe - American, national, international; Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Joseph Jarman, and Roscoe Mitchell; free jazz today.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : W. Morrow, 1984