Steve Coleman – Body of Elements
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Rhythm has always underscored saxophonist Steve Coleman’s 30-year recording career.
Across some 27 albums as a leader, he’s exerted a vortex-like pull of ancient and modern sounds, blending deep African and Asian rhythms with biting street funk and angular jazz harmony, forging a sound that’s made him one of the most original and influential musicians of his generation. With the release of his expansive new album Synovial Joints, which draws on the interlocking pulses of the human body for inspiration, Coleman tells Kevin Le Gendre how much of this music emerged from the swirling grit of a blinding Ghanaian desert wind
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