Steve Coleman's a little tricky to buy cos he has several different
projects which delve into several different musical styles. The records
that I found to be funkiest were under the moniker of Steve Coleman and the
Five Elements. My favorite record by them is called "Def Trance Beat
(Modalities of Rhythym), but there's another live one recorded at the Hot
Brass in Paris, called "Curves of Life", which really smokes. I own other
Steve Coleman which I found to be inferior to the ones I just listed, but if
u want more info on them, just let me know and I'll be glad to oblige
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen van der Ent <vdent@tref.nl>
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 2:39 PM
Subject: Steve Coleman & hip hop
>> 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.
>
>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.
>
>I just got back from a show with my band. The second song we played was a
>dissaster. The guy who was supposed to play the intro played the intro of
>another song and half of the section started to do that other song while
the
>rest of the band played the song we were supposed to play :) Now with 30
>people in a band that sounds awful! Aah the blessings of playing in an
>amateur band....but it was fun though
>
>cheers,
>jEroEn
>
>