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Steve Coleman

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Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. [1]

108 relations: Abbey Lincoln, African diaspora, Anthony Tidd, Art Tatum, Avant-garde jazz, Back to the Beautiful, Béla Bartók, Bertelsmann Music Group, Billy Hart, Black Saint/Soul Note, Black Science (Steve Coleman album), Bunky Green, Carnatic music, Cassandra Wilson, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Parker, Chicago, Chicago Musical College, Chico Freeman, Cindy Blackman Santana, Cipher Syntax, Code Red (Cindy Blackman album), Colours (Sam Rivers album), Columbia Records, Cuban rumba, Dagomba people, Dave Holland, David Murray (saxophonist), Days Aweigh, DGC Records, Different Perspectives, DIW Records, Do You Want More?!!!??!, Don Byas, Doug Hammond, Drop Kick (album), Duke Ellington, ECM Records, Elektra/Musician, Elvin Jones, Enja Records, Extensions (Dave Holland album), Franco Ambrosetti, Functional Arrhythmias, Geffen Records, Geri Allen, Graham Haynes, Greg Osby, Griot, Henry Threadgill, ..., Illadelph Halflife, Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan University, IRCAM, James Brown, Jazz, Jazz Journalists Association, JMT Records, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Coltrane, Jumpin' In, Jumpworld, Lonnie Plaxico, Loop (music), M-Base, MacArthur Foundation, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, Michele Rosewoman, Morphogenesis (album), Motherland Pulse, Muhal Richard Abrams, Muse Records, Musical improvisation, Novus Records, On the Edge of Tomorrow, Open on All Sides in the Middle, Oshumare (album), Paris, Phase Space (album), Pi Recordings, Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album), Polyrhythm, Ravi Coltrane, Rhythm in Mind, Robin Eubanks, Sacred geometry, Sam Rivers, Santería, Seeds of Time, Slide Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, South Side, Chicago, Stanley Cowell, Tentets, The Razor's Edge (Dave Holland album), The Roots, The Tao of Mad Phat, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Traveling Miles, Triplicate (Dave Holland album), Tzadik Records, University of California, Berkeley, Verve Records, Von Freeman, World Expansion, Yoruba religion. Expand index (58 more) »

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.

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African diaspora

The African diaspora consists of the worldwide collection of communities descended from Africa's peoples, predominantly in the Americas.

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Anthony Tidd

Anthony Tidd is a British born bass player, composer and music producer, who moved to the United States in 1996.

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Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Back to the Beautiful

Back to the Beautiful is an album by pianist Stanley Cowell recorded in 1989 and first released on the Concord label.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Billy Hart

Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drummer and educator.

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Black Saint/Soul Note

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels.

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Black Science (Steve Coleman album)

Black Science is an album by saxophonist Steve Coleman and his band Five Elements recorded in 1990 and released on the Novus label.

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Bunky Green

Vernice "Bunky" Green (born April 23, 1935) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and educator.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.

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Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi.

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Musical College

Chicago Musical College is a division of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

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Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman (born Earl Lavon Freeman Jr.; July 17, 1949) is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman.

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Cindy Blackman Santana

Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer.

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Cipher Syntax

Cipher Syntax is an album by Strata Institute, an M-Base group led by saxophonists Greg Osby and Steve Coleman, recorded in 1988 and released on the JMT label.

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Code Red (Cindy Blackman album)

Code Red is an album led by drummer Cindy Blackman which was recorded in 1990 and released on the Muse label in 1992.

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Colours (Sam Rivers album)

Colours is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sam Rivers featuring Winds of Manhattan, an 11-piece woodwind orchestra, recorded in 1982 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Cuban rumba

Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song.

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Dagomba people

The Dagombas are an ethnic group of northern Ghana, numbering about 931,000 (2012).

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Dave Holland

Dave Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades.

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David Murray (saxophonist)

David Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly.

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Days Aweigh

Days Aweigh is the second studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson.

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DGC Records

DGC Records (an initialism for the David Geffen Company) is an American major record label that currently operates as a division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, which is owned by the Vivendi-based Universal Music Group.

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Different Perspectives

Different Perspectives is the debut album by trombonist Robin Eubanks which was recorded in 1988 and released on the JMT label.

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DIW Records

DIW Records is a Japanese record label that specializes in avant-garde jazz.

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Do You Want More?!!!??!

Do You Want More?!!!??! is the second studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released January 17, 1995 on DGC Records.

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Don Byas

Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (October 21, 1912 – August 24, 1972) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, most associated with bebop.

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Doug Hammond

Doug Hammond (born December 26, 1942) is an American free funk/avant-garde jazz drummer, composer, poet, producer, and professor.

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Drop Kick (album)

Drop Kick is an album by saxophonist Steve Coleman and his band Five Elements recorded in 1992 and released by Novus.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Elektra/Musician

Elektra/Musician was a jazz record label founded as a subsidiary of Elektra Records in 1982.

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Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era.

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Enja Records

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

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Extensions (Dave Holland album)

Extensions is an album by jazz bassist Dave Holland released on the ECM label in 1990.

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Franco Ambrosetti

Franco Ambrosetti (born 10 December 1941) is a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer.

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Functional Arrhythmias

Functional Arrhythmias is an album by American jazz saxophonist Steve Coleman and his band Five Elements, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Pi Recordings.

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Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American major record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M Records imprint.

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Geri Allen

Geri Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Graham Haynes

Graham Haynes (born September 16, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer.

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Greg Osby

Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.

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Griot

A griot, jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.

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Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist, and flautist, who came to prominence in the 1970s leading jazz ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating genres other than jazz.

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Illadelph Halflife

Illadelph Halflife is the third studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released September 24, 1996 on Geffen Records.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent, exclusively undergraduate liberal arts college in Bloomington, Illinois.

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IRCAM

IRCAM (or Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music in English) is a French institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Journalists Association

The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) is an international organization of all types of media professionals who document, promulgate, or appreciate jazz.

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JMT Records

JMT Records (an acronym of Jazz Music Today) was a German record label founded by Stefan Winter.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Jumpin' In

Jumpin' In is an album by bassist Dave Holland's Quintet recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.

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Jumpworld

Jumpworld is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson.

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Lonnie Plaxico

Lonnie Plaxico (born 4 September 1960) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Loop (music)

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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M-Base

The term "M-Base" is used in several ways.

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MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States.

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s.

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Michele Rosewoman

Michele Rosewoman is an American jazz pianist living in New York, NY.

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Morphogenesis (album)

Morphogenesis is an album by American jazz saxophonist Steve Coleman, which was recorded in 2016 and released on Pi Recordings.

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Motherland Pulse

Motherland Pulse is the debut album by saxophonist Steve Coleman recorded in 1985 and released on the JMT label.

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Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium.

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Muse Records

Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Novus Records

Novus Records (later Arista Novus and RCA Novus) was an American jazz record label run by Steve Backer.

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On the Edge of Tomorrow

On the Edge of Tomorrow is the second album by saxophonist Steve Coleman recorded in 1986 and released on the JMT label.

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Open on All Sides in the Middle

Open on All Sides in the Middle is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in late 1986 and released on the German Minor Music label.

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Oshumare (album)

Oshumare is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Hart recorded in 1985 and released on the Gramavision label.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Phase Space (album)

Phase Space is an album of duets by saxophonist Steve Coleman and bassist Dave Holland recorded in 1991 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

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Pi Recordings

Pi Recordings is a jazz record label founded by Seth Rosner in 2001.

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Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album)

Point of View is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, recorded in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1985, as the fourth release of the German JMT label in 1986.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Ravi Coltrane

Ravi Coltrane (born August 6, 1965 in Long Island, New York) is an American post-bop jazz saxophonist.

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Rhythm in Mind

Rhythm in Mind is an album by saxophonist Steve Coleman that was recorded in 1991 and released by Novus Records.

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Robin Eubanks

Robin Eubanks (born October 25, 1955) is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks.

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Sacred geometry

Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions.

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Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Santería

Santería, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla de Ifá, or Lucumí, is an Afro-American religion of Caribbean origin that developed in the Spanish Empire among West African descendants.

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Seeds of Time

Seeds of Time is a studio album by English bassist Dave Holland's Quintet recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.

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Slide Hampton

Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton (born April 21, 1932) is an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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South Side, Chicago

The South Side is a region of the city of Chicago.

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Stanley Cowell

Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label.

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Tentets

Tentets is an album by the flugelhornist and composer Franco Ambrosetti which was recorded in 1985 and released on the Enja label.

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The Razor's Edge (Dave Holland album)

The Razor's Edge is a studio album by English jazz bassist Dave Holland, released in 1987 via ECM label.

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The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The Tao of Mad Phat

The Tao of Mad Phat (subtitled "Fringe Zones") is an album by saxophonist Steve Coleman and his band Five Elements recorded in 1993 and released on the Novus label.

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The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965.

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Traveling Miles

Traveling Miles is the thirteenth overall album by American jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson.

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Triplicate (Dave Holland album)

Triplicate is a studio album by British jazz bassist Dave Holland released on the ECM label in 1988.

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Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Von Freeman

Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.

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World Expansion

World Expansion (subtitled (By the M-Base Neophyte)) is the third album by saxophonist Steve Coleman recorded in 1986 and released on the JMT label.

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Yoruba religion

The Yoruba religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practices of the Yoruba people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Coleman

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