Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Miles Dewey Davis III

Chapter 2 Bird Land

Chapter 3 The Birth of the Cool

Chapter 4 Cold Turkey

Chapter 5 The First Great Quintet

Chapter 6 Miles Ahead

Chapter 7 The First Great Sextet

Chapter 8 Porgy and Bess

Chapter 9 Is It Jazz?

Chapter 10 After Coltrane

Chapter 11 In and Out of the Doldrums

Chapter 12 Miles in the Sky

Chapter 13 Play What’s Not There!

Chapter 14 Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Chapter 15 Jazz into Rock Will Go

Chapter 16 Live-Evil

Chapter 17 Manhattan Jungle Symphony

Chapter 18 The Silent Years, 1976–1980

Chapter 19 A Tentative New Beginning

Chapter 20 Crisis and Rebirth

Chapter 21 Honours, Insults and Changes

Chapter 22 Tutu

Chapter 23 Amandla

Chapter 24 The Final Chapter

Postscript

References

Bibliography

Appendix A: Musical Examples

Appendix B: Notes on Repertoire

Appendix C: Discography

Index