M-BASE: C/D, S/D, etc

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I am here to learns. What little I've heard of this stuff sounds like the NYC loft Wildflowers thing with a fatter bottom end, sorta avant-funk. But maybe I'm hearing the wrong stuff.

What's with Coleman's conceptual scheme? MBASE is "a non-western conception of how to use music to express experience"? "This music is unique primarily in the areas of spiritual, rhythmic and melodic development." What's he talking about and should I bother trying to understand it or just dig the tunes?

Vijay Iyer's "M-BASE & Collectivism" calls M-BASE a "an approach to creativity" rather than a musical style.

Coleman has a pretty sizable chunk of his own catalog available for download on his website, which I thought was cool/interesting. I'll be doing some listening this week.

Thoughts?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Was told to check Coleman out, I am listening to this right now for the very first time.

― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

Man, this revive made me dig out Rhythm People again and although it feels a little bloodless at moments for the most part it's stupid dope. "Blues Shifting"!!!

― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 3 December 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Hearing Cassandra Wilson has passed???...too too young

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 2 September 2026 19:25 (two weeks ago)

Yeah, quite a shock. I didn't know she was 70 though! That means she made her breakthrough when she was pushing 40, and honest to god, I thought she was maybe ten years younger. No cause of death released, but she hasn't released an album since 2015 (which was crowdfunded), moved back home in the South, and did a lot fewer concerts, so she was kind of keeping a lower profile.

― birdistheword, Thursday, 3 September 2026 00:35 (one week ago)

Judging by the comments, I guess a lot of people still didn't know she was MAGA, but ugh, Questlove's warning:

*sigh* man…..welcome to my hell….i know like 8 more that would kill yall if it ever got out

― birdistheword, Thursday, 3 September 2026 07:23 (one week ago)

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