Artist: M-Base Collective
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Anatomy of a Groove
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Although they came out with a CD in 1993 under the title of "M-Base Collective," this picky "stria" was always a light grouping of like-minded musicians purpose in finding a unexampled way to extemporize. M-Base (which stands for Macro-Basic Array of Structured Extemporizations) utilizes funky (simply surprisingly unpredictable) rhythms, unusual musical interval jumps in the solos and a nonmelodic approach. M-Base originated forbidden of a musicians referral service that served as a job bank for jazz players. The original players of the style were altoists Steve Coleman and Greg Osby, trumpeter Graham Haynes, guitarist David Gilmore, electric bassist Kevin Bruce Harris, drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith and isaac M. Singer Cassandra Wilson among others; by and by practioners included tenorist Gary Thomas, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, pianists James Weidman and Andy Milne and electric bassist Reggie Washington. The musicians a great deal secondhand each former on club dates and recording sessions and in particular the groups of Coleman (the Five Elements) and Osby helped spread the principles of M-Base. In time the players rent apart with Wilson finding fame, drummer Smith playing a broad sort of music and Osby a great deal appearance as a sideman. However in the improvising of Coleman, Osby and Thomas, the strange M-Base stylus (which in some slipway is an extension of the music of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time) lives on.
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