Living Space by Michael E Veal - 9780819569196

Living SpaceJohn Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital\nAuthor(s): Michael E Veal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wesleyan University Press, United States\nImprint: Wesleyan University Press\nISBN-13: 9780819569196, 978-0819569196\nSynopsis\nExamines John Coltrane's \""late period\"" and Miles Davis's \""Lost Quintet\"" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography\n\nLiving Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the traditional language of jazz analysis. The book follows the controversial trajectories of two jazz legends, emerging from the 1959 album Kind of Blue. Coltrane's odyssey through what became known as \""free jazz\"" brought stylistic (r)evolution and chaos in equal measure. Davis's sp.