{"id":227,"date":"2009-08-02T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:42","slug":"best_review_ever_of_miles_orne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne.html","title":{"rendered":"best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil &#8212; Jazz Beyond Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirpalg.com\/\">Kirpal Gordon<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbridge.org\/BB14\/KIRPL.HTM\">appreciation of and insight into<\/a> my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. He&#8217;s captured my intent and says I accomplished what I meant to. See if you agree.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0Kirpal Gordon&#8216;s appreciation of and insight into my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. He&#8217;s captured my intent and says I accomplished what I meant to. See if you agree.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 howardmandel.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[415,21,414,196,413,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-big-bridge","8":"tag-cecil-taylor","9":"tag-kirpal-gordon","10":"tag-miles-davis","11":"tag-miles-ornette-cecil-jazz-beyond-jazz","12":"tag-ornette-coleman","13":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-3F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/italy_here_i_come.html","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":0},"title":"Italy here I come","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Siena Jazz Workshop has me present my book Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (buy it for your Kindle!) 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