Steve Coleman and Five Elements

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Beyond All We Know 06:05 Tools
Urban 01:56 Tools
The Streets 09:01 Tools
Twister 07:48 Tools
Lucidarium (beyond doors) 07:11 Tools
Multiplicity Of Approaches 15:34 Tools
'Round Midnight 07:06 Tools
Drop Kick Live 09:41 Tools
Flint 12:15 Tools
Turbulence 06:22 Tools
Country Bama 19:12 Tools
Fire Revisited 04:53 Tools
The Gypsy 03:46 Tools
Instantaneous 06:33 Tools
Black Phonemics 04:01 Tools
Reciprocity 10:30 Tools
Salt Peanuts 03:20 Tools
The Tao Of Mad Phat 15:29 Tools
Polarity And Equilibrium In A Fluid 09:11 Tools
Embryo 08:16 Tools
Pad Thai 02:55 Tools
A Vial Of Calm 07:03 Tools
Cüd Ba-Rith Redraft 05:03 Tools
Alt-Shift-Return 07:09 Tools
Treading Water 08:41 Tools
Black Phonemics (Reprise) 01:48 Tools
Change The Guard 08:57 Tools
Magneto 02:52 Tools
Ghost Town 06:53 Tools
Diasporatic transitions I 01:42 Tools
Rhythm People 07:13 Tools
Cross-Fade 03:07 Tools
Plagal Transitions 06:26 Tools
Terra Nova 04:35 Tools
I'm Burnin' Up (Fire Theme) 13:40 Tools
Drop Kick 04:50 Tools
Incantation 03:56 Tools
Laid Back Schematics 08:14 Tools
Wheel of nature 18:54 Tools
Egypt to crypts in hieroglyphs 08:01 Tools
Fat Lay Back 02:16 Tools
The X Format 06:45 Tools
Polymad Nomads 10:36 Tools
Dogon 08:22 Tools
Obscurity 18:54 Tools
Ten steppin' (door to the sixty) 07:57 Tools
Little Girl On Fire 16:35 Tools
Tschanz 11:15 Tools
Changing Of The Guard 03:56 Tools
All The Guards There Are 02:10 Tools
Profile Man 02:58 Tools
I'm Going Home 03:03 Tools
Relax Your Guard 00:39 Tools
It Is Time 02:10 Tools
Tehu Seven 05:26 Tools
Enter The Rhythm (People) 04:04 Tools
Guards On The Train 03:03 Tools
Blues Shifting 06:47 Tools
The X Format (Standard Deviation) 06:44 Tools
Diasporatic transitions II 00:39 Tools
Ramses 06:36 Tools
Perspicuity 06:45 Tools
Ritual - Solo (Aether) 02:49 Tools
No Conscience 05:31 Tools
t-t-tim 01:58 Tools
Patterns of Force 12:50 Tools
Metaphysical Phunktion 04:53 Tools
Almost There 02:10 Tools
Kabbalah 10:42 Tools
Little One I'll Miss You 04:37 Tools
Nine To Five 01:44 Tools
Neutral Zone 04:26 Tools
Dread Drop 04:07 Tools
Meditations on Cardinal 137 09:29 Tools
Sinews 03:09 Tools
The Posse 04:34 Tools
Ice Moves 06:30 Tools
The Journeyman 05:12 Tools
The 42 Assesors 09:29 Tools
Ain't Goin' Out Like That 05:01 Tools
Dangerous 04:58 Tools
Simbius Web 04:41 Tools
Z Train 03:21 Tools
Contemplation 05:05 Tools
Armageddon (Cold-Blood-ed) 06:16 Tools
Step'n 06:22 Tools
9 To 5 14:42 Tools
Tetragrams / Astrology I 09:42 Tools
Verifiable Pedagogy (from Pedagogy and Confirmation) 03:34 Tools
Shift on the Fly 03:40 Tools
Medulla-Vagus 06:33 Tools
Chemical Intuition 03:58 Tools
64 Path Bindings 06:58 Tools
Multiplicity of Approaches (The Afrikan Way of Knowing) 06:20 Tools
Irregular Heartbeats 03:57 Tools
Jan 18 06:40 Tools
Resistance Is Futile (limitation) 15:15 Tools
Ritual - Duo (Water) 02:35 Tools
The Khu (Divine Will) 08:19 Tools
Respiratory Flow 03:50 Tools
Circle Weaving Thirteen 03:54 Tools
Multiplicity of Approaches (the african way of knowing) 06:16 Tools
Destination 05:27 Tools
Ah-Leu-Cha 05:28 Tools
Gregorian 04:40 Tools
Desperate Move 06:18 Tools
Beba 05:43 Tools
Cardiovascular 02:34 Tools
Cerebellum Lean 05:25 Tools
Bates Motel 08:11 Tools
Ascending Numeration 09:05 Tools
Easy Living 07:07 Tools
Common Law 09:02 Tools
Cerebrum Crossover 06:46 Tools
Attila (Dawning Ritual) 08:33 Tools
Limbic Cry 05:37 Tools
Unction 07:08 Tools
Dream State 06:36 Tools
Triad Mutations Ii 04:48 Tools
Cinema Saga 05:16 Tools
Soul Melange 03:51 Tools
Cycle of Absolute Dominants 11:56 Tools
Proteus 06:37 Tools
mad monkey 03:37 Tools
Adrenal, Got Ghost 03:05 Tools
Assim-Elim 03:32 Tools
The Mantra (Intonation of Power) 03:36 Tools
Stone Bone Jr. 01:13 Tools
First Sunrise 04:38 Tools
Hits/straight No Chaser 06:10 Tools
Tang Lung 02:49 Tools
Snap-Sis 03:08 Tools
Mist and Counterpoise 06:42 Tools
Hormone Trig 04:29 Tools
Law Of Balance / Figit Time 13:49 Tools
In The Park 02:10 Tools
To Perpetuate The Funk 07:03 Tools
Circle C 03:54 Tools
Passage 01:03 Tools
Reflection Upon Two Worlds 09:14 Tools
Lymph Swag (Dance of the Leukocytes) 02:26 Tools
(In Order To Form) A More Perfect Union 07:00 Tools
And They Partied... 04:17 Tools
Dark To Light 04:21 Tools
Straight ahead 05:46 Tools
Just A Funky Old Song 02:26 Tools
Urilai Thrane 01:52 Tools
Law of Balance 06:51 Tools
Pi 06:48 Tools
Clouds 07:26 Tools
The 42 Assessors 17:36 Tools
Ur-Beat 04:22 Tools
Octagonal Dance Abstract 11:24 Tools
Reflex 10:01 Tools
Call for Transformation 10:43 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere 06:07 Tools
Fortitude And Chaos 04:46 Tools
Tehu Six 04:21 Tools
Koshine Koji 01:43 Tools
Proteus Revamp 05:05 Tools
Stone Bone (Can't Go Wrong) 06:45 Tools
Triad Mutations I 03:31 Tools
Ascending Numeration (alternate take) 08:59 Tools
Attila (Closing Ritual) 03:33 Tools
Common Law (alternate take 1) 04:22 Tools
Li Bai / Astrology II 10:34 Tools
The Movement in Self 06:16 Tools
Maat 02:55 Tools
Precession 13:21 Tools
Glyphs In Motion 13:59 Tools
Formation 1 07:05 Tools
Triad Mutations III 03:03 Tools
Eight Base Probing 12:47 Tools
Common Law (alternate take 2) 04:49 Tools
060706-2319 (Middle of Water) 14:05 Tools
Vernal Equinox 040320-0149 (Initiation) 06:42 Tools
Third Dynasty 04:39 Tools
Numerology 05:47 Tools
Trigrams / Astrology III 08:05 Tools
Flos Ut Rosa Floruit 06:49 Tools
a_more_perfect_union 07:00 Tools
Obscuruty 06:44 Tools
The Twelve Powers 10:49 Tools
Wheel of Nature (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 18:54 Tools
Circle Weaving Eleven 08:53 Tools
multiplicity_of_approaches 06:21 Tools
First Cause 04:31 Tools
verifiable_pedagogy 03:34 Tools
Jeannine's Sizzling (From Fire Revisited And Jeannine I Dream Of Lilac Time) 06:09 Tools
Verifiable Pedagogy 03:35 Tools
Ritual Trio (Earth) 03:34 Tools
the_khu 08:19 Tools
Ritual - Trio (Air) 03:33 Tools
stone_bone 06:45 Tools
Rite of Passage 14:42 Tools
Ritual - Trio (Earth) 08:52 Tools
Polar Shift 07:24 Tools
jeannines_sizzling 06:09 Tools
Formation 2 06:56 Tools
Organic Movement 02:55 Tools
Regeneration 11:43 Tools
The Law 07:21 Tools
Jeannine’s Sizzling (from Fire Revisited and Jeannine I Dream of Lilac Time) 06:09 Tools
Seti I 05:14 Tools
Noctiluca (Jan 11) 12:20 Tools
Beyond All We Know (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 06:04 Tools
Earth-Idi (Odú Ifá Suite) 06:15 Tools
9 to 5 (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 14:42 Tools
the_mantra 03:36 Tools
Fire-Ogbe (Odú Ifá Suite) 05:21 Tools
Ah-leu-cha (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 05:28 Tools
Change the Guard (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 08:57 Tools
fire_theme 01:56 Tools
The Gate 02:48 Tools
park_ptII 00:57 Tools
The Mantra 03:36 Tools
Ritual - Septet (Fire) 06:29 Tools
The Tao of Mad Phat - Live 19:12 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): I. Changing Of The Guard 06:29 Tools
Ausar (Reincarnation) 04:05 Tools
Air-Iwori (Odú Ifá Suite) 06:35 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): III. Relax Your Guard 05:14 Tools
Yo Ho 04:05 Tools
tlydors_bane 04:17 Tools
yo_ho 04:06 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): II. Guards On The Train 04:06 Tools
Ritual Septet (Fire) 04:05 Tools
Heru (Redemption) 04:17 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere (Alternate Take) 06:09 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): IV. All The Guards There Are 04:17 Tools
Water-Oyeku (Odú Ifá Suite) 07:58 Tools
Seth 07:58 Tools
Tlydor's Bane 06:09 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): V. Enter The Rhythm (People) 04:17 Tools
Fire Theme (intro) 08:19 Tools
The Khu 08:19 Tools
Jeannine's Sizzling 06:09 Tools
Resistance Is Futile (Limitation) [feat. Geoffrey De Masure] 15:14 Tools
Yo-Ho 04:05 Tools
I'm burning up 13:40 Tools
Law of Balance / Figit Time (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 13:48 Tools
Easy Living (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 07:07 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere (Alternative Take) 07:07 Tools
Jeannines Sizzling 06:10 Tools
Stone bone 06:45 Tools
A more perfect union 07:00 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Changing of the Guard - Live 12:50 Tools
Lucidarium 07:11 Tools
Alt-Shift-Return - Live 05:03 Tools
Diasporatic Transitions, Pt. 1 01:42 Tools
Ah-Leu-Cha (Live) 13:40 Tools
Drop Kick Live (Live) 09:41 Tools
Hits / Straights No Chaser (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 06:10 Tools
I’m Burnin’ Up (Fire Theme) (Live) 13:40 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): All the Guards There Are - Live 05:03 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Relax Your Guard - Live 12:50 Tools
Multiplicity of Approaches (The African Way of Knowing) (Live) 15:34 Tools
‘Round Midnight (Live) 07:06 Tools
Diasporatic Transitions, Pt. 2 01:41 Tools
Country Bama (Live) 19:12 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Guards On the Train - Live 12:50 Tools
Pad Thai (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 02:55 Tools
Urban (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 07:37 Tools
The Gypsy (Live) 12:15 Tools
Flint (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 12:15 Tools
Diasporatic Transition II 12:15 Tools
Laid Back Schematics - Live 08:19 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Enter the Rhythm (People) - Live 12:50 Tools
Incantation - Live 12:50 Tools
The Streets (Live) 12:15 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): Relax Your Guard 04:17 Tools
Diasporatic Transition I 12:15 Tools
djw 12:15 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): Changing of the Guard 04:17 Tools
Straight Ahea (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 05:46 Tools
Polymad Nomads - Live 12:50 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): Guards on the Train 12:50 Tools
Lymph Swag [Dance Of The Leukocytes] 03:53 Tools
Park (pt. II) 03:53 Tools
Reflex (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 10:01 Tools
Pad That 05:15 Tools
Horda 16:35 Tools
Little Girl On Fire - Live 12:50 Tools
Multiplicity Of Approaches - Remastering 2015 05:03 Tools
Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That 05:15 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): All the Guards There Are 12:50 Tools
Tlydors Bane 04:17 Tools
Fire Theme 01:56 Tools
Park, Pt. 2 04:17 Tools
Step’n 01:56 Tools
Collective Meditations I (Suite): Enter the Rhythm (People) 12:50 Tools
The Tao Of Mad Phat (Live) 12:50 Tools
twf 12:50 Tools
nfr 12:50 Tools
Patters Of Force 12:50 Tools
The Klu 08:19 Tools
The Streets - Remastering 2015 12:50 Tools
Odú Ifá Suite: Fire-Ogbe 12:50 Tools
Odú Ifá Suite: Earth-Idi 12:50 Tools
Polymad Nomads (Live) 16:35 Tools
'Round Midnight - Remastering 2015 16:35 Tools
Polymaid Nomads 12:50 Tools
Park PtII 12:50 Tools
Adreanal, Got Ghost 00:00 Tools
Alt-Shift-Return (Live) 16:35 Tools
Little Girl On Fire (Live) 16:35 Tools
Odú Ifá Suite: Air-Iwori 12:50 Tools
Country Bama - Remastering 2015 12:50 Tools
Drop Kick Live - Remastering 2015 04:15 Tools
I'm Burnin Up (Fire Theme) - Remastering 2015 12:50 Tools
Jeannine 12:50 Tools
idHw 12:50 Tools
Odú Ifá Suite: Water-Oyeku 12:50 Tools
The Gypsy - Remastering 2015 04:15 Tools
Hits / Straight No Chaser 04:15 Tools
Hits / Straight No Chaser (Live) 04:15 Tools
Incantation (Live) 16:35 Tools
Fire-Ogbe (Odu Ifa Suite) 00:00 Tools
Multiplicity of Approches 04:15 Tools
Law Of Balance - Figit Time 04:15 Tools
Hits - straight no chaser 04:15 Tools
Figit Time 04:15 Tools
Muliplicity of Approaches (The Afican Way of Knowing) 04:15 Tools
Embedded #1 04:15 Tools
Cross Fade 04:15 Tools
Bates Motes 04:15 Tools
Hits/Straights No Chaser (feat. Geoffrey De Masure) 04:15 Tools
Laid Back Schematics (Live) 04:15 Tools
Little Girl I'll Miss You 04:15 Tools
Little Girl On Fire (From Little Girl I'll Miss You And Fire Revisited) 16:35 Tools
Ritual Trio (Air) 00:00 Tools
Earth-Idi (Odu Ifa Suite) 16:35 Tools
I'm burning up (fire theme) 00:00 Tools
Reflex (Live) 05:39 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Relax Your Guard (Live) 05:39 Tools
Little Girl I'll Miss You | Embedded #1 05:39 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere [alternate take] 05:39 Tools
cud_ba-rith_redraft 05:03 Tools
Little One ILL Miss You 05:39 Tools
I'm Burnin Up [Fire Theme] 05:03 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Guards On the Train (Live) 05:03 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): Changing of the Guard (Live) 05:03 Tools
Collective Meditations 1 (Suite): All the Guards There Are (Live) 05:03 Tools
rmt | figit time 05:03 Tools
rmt | 9 to 5 05:03 Tools
Fire-Ogbe 16:35 Tools
Water-Oyeku (Odu Ifa Suite) 16:35 Tools
Fire Theitie 16:35 Tools
Air-Iwori (Odu Ifa Suite) 16:35 Tools
Resistance is futile - Limitation 16:35 Tools
The Streets (Remastering 2015) 16:35 Tools
Day Five 16:35 Tools
Jeannine' Sizzling (From Fire Revisited And Jeannine I Dream Of Lilac Time) 16:35 Tools
the_42_assessors 16:35 Tools
treading_water 16:35 Tools
`Round Midnight 16:35 Tools
Water-Oyeku 16:35 Tools
Park, Part II 16:35 Tools
Resistance Is Futile 16:35 Tools
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Steve Coleman and Five Elements is the primary group of American saxophonist Steve coleman. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Coleman moved to New York City in 1978 and has lived in the NYC area since that time. Although he has led several groups over the years, his main group 'Steve Coleman and Five Elements' began in 1981 and is still active today. He was one of the founders of the so-called M-Base movement, has led several groups ( mostly with Five Elements ) and has recorded extensively. Initially influenced by saxophonists Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Von Freeman and Bunky Green, Coleman has performed and recorded with Thad Jones, Sam Rivers, drummer Doug Hammond, Cecil Taylor, Abbey Lincoln and Dave Holland. He has incorporated many elements from the folkloric music of the African Diaspora fused with musical ideas influenced by ancient metaphysical concepts. He has stated that his main concern is the use of music as a language of sonic symbols used to express the nature of man's existence. Coleman's work around 1990, such as the recording Black Science, is unusual for its indefinite meter. This is accomplished in many ways, but one example of this technique is composing music that involves each musician performing in different but related time spans, generally resulting in asymmetric cycles, for example a cycle of 7 against a cycle of 11. The feel of the resulting music is usually groove-based, but with a loose structure that is the consequence of the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic relationships of the various cycles. A highlight of this period is the recording The Tao of Mad Phat (fringe zones), which was recorded in front of a live studio audience. Coleman does not agree with using categories to describe music today, in particular he does not use the term jazz. Preferring a more organic approach to music he uses the term Spontaneous Composition. According to Coleman there extends back into ancient times a tradition of musicians who have attempted to express through music the various visions and realities that they perceive, and for him this is the driving force behind many of the ‘so-called’ innovations in music (and indeed in other fields as well). He feels that the various tools and fields of inquiry that people have used (physics and metaphysics, number, language, music, dance, astronomy, etc.) are all related and present one holistic body of work. One of the primary methods that Coleman uses to create his music is linked to two concepts: Sacred Geometry (the use of shapes to symbolically express natural principles), and Energy (the potential for change and change itself in physical, metaphysical and psychic phenomena, including Life, Growth, etc.). Coleman uses various kinds of musical structures to symbolize the Sacred Geometry and specific kinds of musical movement to reference the various states of Energy. In any event the concept of Change seems to be central to his theory. He has stated that it is the Change between the various musical structures that represents process, with the structures themselves being symbolic of various principles. Coleman believes that it is through the Spontaneous Composition of forms that these ideas can be most readily expressed, regardless of external stylistic appearances. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.