Steve Coleman and Five Elements: The Mancy of Sound

(Pi)Reflections on the role of music as divination by Beethoven, Scriabin and Coltrane appear on the sleeve of this followup to saxophonist Steve Coleman's Harvesting Semblances and Affinities album of last year. They confirm that Coleman (a founder of New York's experimental M-Base movement in the 1980s) is eschewing anything you could whistle in the bath. This set adds extra percussion to the regular lineup of trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, trombonist Tim Albright, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and voc...

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