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>Subject: Steve Coleman & hip hop
>Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:10:11 +0200
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>> If u like the jazz-rap mix, another awesome artist to check out
is
>Steve
>>Coleman. Again, you must like jazz to appreciate this,
>
>
>I have some older material by him and saw him perform once at the
North Sea
>Jazz festival which was very impressive. Some years ago I bought an
album on
>which he cooperated with some rappers, cointaining one song with a
rapper of
>the Roots but I was highly dissapointed by the album. Even the song
with the
>guy from the Roots wasn't any good. A bummer because I was having
great
>expectations.
>
I saw him with a goup at a local community center in Mountain View
California, and he had a couple of rappers with him and I have to say
they all did an admirable job, even one rapper freestylin'. I have to
say the complex polyrhytms of his group were amazing. My brother went
to the workshop then next day and had a good time. I also found out
that he went to high school in Chicago with my Band/Jazz professor in
College.
>Does the album you're referring to have a purple/blueish cover with a
house
>on it? (I don't recall the title) Anyway if it is another album I'd
be
>interested. Could you provide me with the title? His life performance
is
>brilliant...I'm going to check out that Avery album, thanks for the
info.
>
Don't know that one though I do have on of the M-Base collective CDs
"Anatomy Of A Groove" :<italic>current structural developments in 21st
centruy creative black music.</italic> The collective includes,
Cassandra Wilson, Greg Osby, Marvin "Smitty" Smith and others, this was
an attempt to bring about new jazz styles which Acid Jazz is certainly
a result.
Any other info/history?
erik g