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