The Tao Of Jazz Improvisation

When I see titles like that, I get suspicious.
There is something very strange in this book, there is no numbering, bibliography, appendix, index seems to have been made by a child, hence when it comes to the musical examples, it has nothing to do with what it says, on the mind, it creates rough examples without syncopes And the usual jazz pauses, very strange indeed.
Seems to have been done by a student. 'Microsoft Word' has all the tools to create a true encicolopedia, and books with automatic indexes.

The way he understood 'martial' is absolutely wrong, that simply means kill or die.

Mars was the roman god of war. Martial is not mind/ears/body, the concentration and balance of the fight yes, the Japanese have specific words and much better for all of this.
When Martial is get anything, gun, knife to kill your enemies, including your feet, hands, arms. People used it in oriental 'Martial Arts', like Judo, or Okinawa's Karate, that's not to play with friends, today is self defense or sport. But some still use it like martial art, the art to kill.

Some people think they did some kind of martial art, but, learned some tricks to self defense only, I personally did Karate like Martial Art, this way, I broked my 5th right hand metacarpian bone, and other problems.

Bad analogy of this book, jazz within martial, if it was other agressive styles of L.A, I could even agree. But for me, these guys need to sell their books at all costs, for me, lack of subject.