Miles, Ornette, Cecil : Jazz Beyond Jazz

Epigrams vii Preface ix Greg Tate Jazz Beyond Jazz -- The Avant-Garde 1(16) Miles Davis, Directions 17(92) Me and Miles -- un-cool confessions 17(9) New directions 26(63) Talkin', playin', BSn' 89(8) Later and after 97(12) Ornette Coleman, Questions and Conjectures 109(94) Ornette I've met 109(14) Harmolodic dialogue 123(20) Circle of improvisers 143(26) Coleman family business 169(27) Honors 196(7) Cecil Taylor, Grand Passions 203(48) The Great Unknown 203(20) Late tea, early winter and my dinner with Cecil 223(17) Speaking of drummers 240(11) Furthermore: The Once and Future Avant-Garde 251(4) Notes 255(6) Acknowledgments 261(2) Photography credits 263(2) Selected bibliography 265(4) Index 269