5. Evolution
The Free Movement and the Avant-Garde

Listen
All audio materials should be available through the Public Radio MusicSource®, most record stores, The Smithsonian Institution, and some public libraries.

• John Coltrane: Giant Steps (Atlantic 1311-3)
• John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse GRD 155)
• Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Columbia CK 40579)
• Miles Davis: Miles Smiles (Columbia PC 2601)
• Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic 1317-2)
• Art Ensemble of Chicago (Delamark DE 432)
• Old and New Dreams (Black Saint 120013 2)
• Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds, Volume I (ESP 1014-2

View
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

• Miles and Trane New York/Germany (A 297)*
• Ornette Coleman Trio (A 27)*
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The One-Man Twins (A 348)*
• Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (A 47)*
• Eric Dolphy: Last Date (A 218)*

Read

• Cole, Bill. John Coltrane. Schirmer Books, New York, 1976.
• Feather, Leonard. From Satchmo to Miles. Stein & Day, New York, 1972.
• Davis, Miles with Quincy Troupe. Miles: The Autobiography. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989.
• Giddins, Gary. Rhythm-a-ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovations in the '80s. Oxford University Press, New York, 1985.
• Russell, Ross. Bird Lives: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie Parker. Charterhouse, New York, 1973.

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