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PolyTropos / Of Many Turns is the highly-anticipated new release from influential alto saxophonist / composer Steve Coleman. Comprised of two sets recorded live during a March, 2024 tour in France, it features his band Five Elements, with long-running partners Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet and Sean Rickman on drums, with new addition Rich Brown on bass

Popmatters said of his prior release, 2021’s Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume II (Mdw Ntr): “The tides of his creativity continue to swell, change, surge… It is, actually, a refraction of culture and tradition that includes James Brown and Public Enemy, Jimi Hendrix and Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong…. It is art infused with all that information, and it challenges us simultaneously.”

PERSONNEL:

Steve Coleman - (alto saxophone)
Jonathan Finlayson - (trumpet)
Rich Brown - (bass)
Sean Rickman - (drums)

CD ONE: Live at New Morning, Paris

01. Spontaneous Pi
02. Spontaneous One
03. Spontaneous All
04. Mdw Ntr
05. Spontaneous Drum
06. Muldplicity of Approaches
07. 9 to 5
08. Of Many Turns

CD TWO: Live at Salle des fêtes de Voiron

01. Lush Life cadenza/Pi
02. Spontaneous One
03. Mdw Ntr
04. Round Midnight
05. Pad Thai / Of Many Turns
06. Wheel of Nature / Fire Revisited