STEVE COLEMAN AND THE MYSTIC RHYTHM SOCIETY

Steve Coleman, sax - Ralph Alessi, trump - Andy Milne e Vijay Iyer, piano - Anthony Tidd, bass - Gene Lake, drums - Miya Masaoka, koto Marivaldo Dos Santos e Josh Jones, percussions - Luis Cancino Morales e Ramon Garcia Perez, cuban percussions, voice, dance - Yassir Chadley, morrocan percussions , voice - Kokai, voice - Roseangela Silvestre, dance

Programme'95

Steve Coleman has put his own rhythmic stamp on his music, substituting a hard and strong beat, detectable at once, for the traditional jazz beat. He has maybe shown the only possible way between rap and jazz with his killer group Metrics. Having done all this, he is ready to new avenues of expressions with the Mystic Rhythm Society, a panethnic tribe where sounds from East and West are played, crossing Japanese koto with North African voices and Indian percussion. This road among sounds will point Steve Coleman as a pivot in today's music, with a first-rate role in a necessary revisitation of the forms of jazz. Coleman strikes back against the restoration of jazz past glories, with a never ending energy, giving music fresh ideas for a "Great Black Music" alive and well. Steve Coleman has put his own rhythmic stamp on his music, substituting a hard and strong beat, detectable at once, for the traditional jazz beat. He has maybe shown the only possible way between rap and jazz with his killer group Metrics. Having done all this, he is ready to new avenues of expressions with the Mystic Rhythm Society, a panethnic tribe where sounds from East and West are played, crossing Japanese koto with North African voices and Indian percussion. This road among sounds will point Steve Coleman as a pivot in today's music, with a first-rate role in a necessary revisitation of the forms of jazz. Coleman strikes back against the restoration of jazz past glories, with a never ending energy, giving music fresh ideas for a "Great Black Music" alive and well.

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