Steve Coleman & the Five Elements

Musical Group

Steve Coleman & the Five Elements is the ensemble led by Steve Coleman, an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader associated with the M-Base movement and modern progressive jazz.

The review names key performers for this 2006 live set: Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet), Tim Albright (trombone), Thomas Morgan (double bass), Dafnis Prieto (drums) and vocalist Shyu. The set related to the studio album Weaving Symbolics (2006).

A positive review (4/5) of Steve Coleman & the Five Elements' 01-09-2006 live set at the Reggia Punico-Fenicia festival in Monte Sirai. The reviewer praises Coleman's saxophone leadership and the close, balanced ensemble while noting the absence of flute and piano on stage. The live performance is presented as a faithful, mostly successful exegesis of the studio album Weaving Symbolics (2006), though with slight episodic monothematicity. Notable musicians mentioned: Jonathan Finlayson, Tim Albright, Thomas Morgan, Dafnis Prieto and vocalist Shyu.

For:Fans of modern and progressive jazz, festival-goers, listeners interested in Steve Coleman, and readers of in-depth concert reviews.

 His saxophon-magnificentzia Sir Stefano Coleman, an extraordinary instrumentalist also of the highest profile, considered (often rightly) one of the most brilliant and progressive minds of current modern mixed-jazz internationally, and his musically admirable, not-at-all-Bessonistic, five elements, put on one side a serious test and on the other delighted (i.e.: I glimpsed quite a few sneaky exits before the concert, so to speak, was concluded), the really anxious and considerable crowd perched within the hemicycle at the narrow arena located atop the wonderful hill hosting the archaeologically relevant and archaic Punic-Phoenician village of Monte Sirai.

  Discover the review

This artist has no image.
Please send one!

Loading

Oh no! This artist is not in any charts. Why don't you add them yourself using the button below

You and Steve Coleman & the Five Elements
Who knows Steve Coleman & the Five Elements?
Loading...