Free Jazz books (Hachette Books)

German musician and educator Ekkehard Jost was possibly the very first writer to free jazz the even-handed formal analysis it had been needing in book form for some time already by 1974, when this book was first published. His rigorous and exact yet very fair approach to the music of Coltrane, Ornette, Mingus, the AACM, the Art Ensemble, Ayler, Cherry, Taylor, Abrams, Shepp and Sun Ra is highly illuminating for both devotees and novices alike. A classic, as no-nonsense and straight to the point as its very title.