Steve Coleman - PolyTropos / Of Many Turns [2CD set]

PI RECORDINGS

£18.34

Cat. no: PI105
Format: CD 2CD set
Barcode: 808713010527
Release Date: 15 Nov 2024
Genre: Jazz

PolyTropos / Of Many Turns is the highly-anticipated new release from infuential saxophonist / composer Steve Coleman

Comprised of two live sets recorded during a tour in France, it features his band Five Elements, with long- running partners Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet and Sean Rickmanon drums, with new addition Rich Brownon bass. PopMatters said of his 2021 release Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume II (Mdw Ntr) "The tides of his creativity continue to swell, change, surge... It is, actually, a refraction of culture and tradition that includes James Brown and Public Enemy, Jimi Hendrix and Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Kanye West. It's art infused with all that information, and it challenges us simultaneously."

Recorded in concert in Paris and Voiron, the performances are raw, relying on spontaneous conversions of rhythmic and tonal shapes that weave musical fgures into continuous movements. A highly visual composer and improvisor, Coleman has recently drawn inspiration from following the logical chains of amino acids, inventively imbuing them with musical information. Acting on their collective, mysterious whim, the band takes the audience through exhilarating pivots and swerves based on some secret, enigmatic internal logic. It is collective improvisation of the highest order.

Steve Coleman: alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson: trumpet
Rich Brown: bass
Sean Rickman: drums

Tracks: Spontaneous Pi / Spontaneous One / Spontaneous All / Mew Ntr / Spontaneous Drum / Multiplicity of Approaches / 9 to 5 / of Many Turns / Lush Life cadenza/ Pi / Spontaneous One / Mdw Ntr / Round Midnight / Pad Thai/ Of Many Turns / Wheel of Nature/Fire Revised