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The late 1980s found Coleman working to codify his early ideas using the group Steve Coleman and Five Elements and working with a collective of musicians called the M-Base Collective.
- What is M-Base
What M-Base is: An acronym for Macro – Basic Array of...
- What is M-Base
The term " M-Base " is used in several ways. In the 1980s, a loose collective of young African American musicians including Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, Cassandra Wilson, Geri Allen, Robin Eubanks, and Greg Osby emerged in Brooklyn with a new sound and specific ideas about creative expression.
Join Steve Coleman and the M-Base community now to explore new perspectives in creative music. Click here for free registration to the M-Base Ways site
What M-Base is: An acronym for Macro – Basic Array of Structured Extemporizations. For us this means expressing our experiences through music that uses improvisation and structure as two of its main ingredients. There is no limitation on the kind of structures or the type of improvisation, or the style of the music.
To support our residencies with donations (any amount), please go to Donate to M-Base Concepts Inc. - or contact info1@m-base.org. Also. please join our interactive members site, with plenty of video content, blogs, concert footage and other great content (registration is free).
An extension of Ornette Coleman's free funk (although with a greater use of space and dynamics), M-Base often features crowded and noisy ensembles, unpredictable funk rhythms, and an entirely new logic in soloing that owes little to bebop.
Find m-base tracks, artists, and albums. Find the latest in m-base music at Last.fm.
