Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman – Steve Coleman’s Music Live In Paris : 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:48:39 minutes | 2,62 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Music Entertainment

The performances at the Paris Hot Brass Club are among Steve Coleman’s most important musical manifestos. The alto saxophonist presented three different musical concepts there during a week in March 1995. The resulting, long-out-of-print records of the trilogy have now been brought together in a digipack. As a bonus, the re-mastered re-release received a fourth CD with previously unreleased material. The 24-page booklet shows the original covers, as well as the corresponding texts and a current essay by the leader. In it, he emphasizes his esoterically oriented musical creation process. The names of his bands at that time already indicate this: on the record “Myths, Modes and Means”, Steve Coleman and The Mystic Rhythm Society make an attempt to explore the structures of the universe and express these forms in a musical language. Integrated into rhythmically refined statements such as “Mystic Dub” and “Numerology”, extensive sound adventures can be enjoyed. On Steve Coleman and The Metrics’ “The Way Of Cipher”, the alto saxophonist combines his instrumental parts “Freestyle” with hip-hop sounds and the rappers Sub-Z, Black Indian and Kokayi. In the stormy ambience of bop, funk and free, Steve Coleman and Five Elements perform on “Curves Of Life”. In “Country Bama” and “I’m Burnin Up” the tenor saxophonist David Murray is a guest star. Coleman explains his concept on the bonus CD, and there are also two vital titles with the rappers on it.
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Steve Coleman – Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:33 minutes | 3,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pi Recordings

Alto saxophonist Steve Coleman’s Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. I (The Embedded Sets) is his first live release in over 15 years. It captures his band Five Elements in two joyous sets at the historic New York venue where some of the most famous jazz recording from the likes of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Bill Evans have been made. Coleman’s personal history is tied deeply with the club: One of the main reasons he moved to New York City from Chicago was for the opportunity to play in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, of which he was a member from 1978 to 1980. After playing there with singer Abbey Lincoln in 1984, there followed a hiatus of over 30 years before he was invited to perform at the club as a leader in 2015. Since then, he has led his band Five Elements at the Vanguard every year, including these two sets recorded in May, 2017.

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