The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
| Copyright Holder | John Litweiler |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press, Inc. |
| First Published by | William Morrow |
| Reprinted with/by arrangement with | John Litweiler |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Virginia Atkinson Design & Company |
| Cover photo | Charles Stewart |
| Book Design by | Victoria Hartman |
| About/Subject | Jazz, Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York |
| This Edition Published | 1990 |
| First Printing | 1984 |
| Copyright | 1984 |
| Pages / Font | 324 pages |
| Barcode | 9780306803772 |
| ISBN | 0-306-80377-1 |
| Price | US $16.00 |
| Price | $25.00 CAN |
| Chapters | Preface 1 Steps in search for freedom 13 2 Ornette Coleman: The birth of freedom 31 3 Eric Dolphy 59 4 John Coltrane: The passion for freedom 80 5 Transition: Miles Davis and modal jazz 105 6 The Free Jazz underground and Sun Ra 129 7 Albert Ayler 151 8 Chicago, sound in space, and St. Louis 172 9 Cecil Taylor 200 10 Pop-Jazz, Fusion, and Romanticism 222 11 Free Jazz in Europe: American, national, international 240 12 Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell 265 13 Free Jazz today 287 Appendix I: Notes 301 Appendix II: Selected discography 307 Index 317 |
| Notes | This Da Capo Press paperback edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1984, here supplemented with an insert of photographs. It is reprinted by arrangement with the author. On cover: Albert Ayler |
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