Myths Modes & Means - Live at Hot Brass

Steve Coleman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003ET9
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,487 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mystic Dub

2. Finger Of God

3. The Initiate

4. Madras

5. Song Of The Beginnings

6. Numerology

7. Transits

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!!!, March 1, 2007

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Diane (Du Bois, PA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Myths Modes & Means - Live at Hot Brass (Audio CD)

Just listen to the samples --- they speak for themselves - This CD is a trip and continues to grow as it goes along ~ This is what's happening now in Jazz. Check it out. Very Cool! --

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NEW Jazz, May 3, 2005

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D. Falk "brother_hubbard" (Galesburg, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Myths Modes & Means - Live at Hot Brass (Audio CD)

I disagree. This is new music at it best, mixing the world's great musics in new and inventive ways. I think the lyricist is a nice touch, using a kind of slam poet/freestyle that is really hot. Also, if you list a dancer in your liner notes you know what's up.

As for Steve's playing, he and Osby are the new players. Everyone else is just copping Bird, Cannonball, and Trane licks.

Ralph Alessi (bad trumpet, BAD), Andy Milne (piano/keyboards), Reggie Washington (bass), Gene Lake (drums), Vijay Iyer (keyboards), Miya Masaoka (koto), Josh Jones (percussion),Ramesh Shotham (Indian percussion), Kokayi (lyricist), Yassir Chadly (vocals, percussion) and Laila (dance).

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too mainstream, August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Myths Modes & Means - Live at Hot Brass (Audio CD)

I used to love Coleman's earlier, more unknown works. Stuff like, "Answering Machine messages" and "Ocean Sounds", the albums he recorded in his garage and sold out of the back of his car. This new album does have that same feel, but Coleman's music is being watered down by it's mass market appeal. Go back to being unheard of. Till then, I'll be listening to Parker.