Miles Ornette Cecil

<p>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. <em>Miles Ornette Cecil</em> is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others while influencing musicians across such divides as genre geography and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work. </p>