Table of Contents

Steps in search for freedom; Ornette Coleman - the birth of freedom; Eric Dolphy; John Coltrane - the passion for freedom; transition - Miles Davis and modal jazz; the free jazz underground and Sun Ra; Albert Ayler; Chicago, sound and space, and St Louis; Cecil Taylor; pop-jazz, fusion and romanticism; free jazz in Europe - American, national, international; Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Joseph Jarman, and Roscoe Mitchell; free jazz today.

About the Author

John Litweiler is a director of the Jazz Instistute of Chicago, and has been a Down Beat staff reviewer since 1968.