"A musical study of free jazz, specifically John Coltrane's controversial "late period" and Miles Davis's long-neglected "Lost Quintet," bringing jazz into dialogue with experimental currents in analysis of architecture and photography"--
MICHAEL E. VEAL (New York, NY) is Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. His books include Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, and Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat.