Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz

by Howard Mandel

Book Overview

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138981087
• ISBN13: 9781138981089
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"