Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities | CD review
(Pi)Remarkably, this is American saxophonist Steve Coleman's first release in four years – and his first for an American company in nine, as he joins the label that's also home to such contemporary innovators as Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Steve Lehman. Coleman's stablemates are all artists who grew up with the rhythm-bending, multi-layering approach that's now heard all over contemporary jazz, and that Coleman did so much to initiate with the M-Base movement in the 1980s. The music br...
Guardian Music — (Pi)Remarkably, this is American saxophonist Steve Coleman's first release in four years – and his first for an American company in nine, as he joins the label that's a... more info