Steve Coleman

Extensions

Dave Holland · 1989

Black Science

Steve Coleman · 1991

The M-Base collective Steve ColemanSteve Colemanスティーヴ・コールマン launched in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s treated rhythm not as something to swing but as something to architect. Steve ColemanSteve Colemanスティーヴ・コールマン and fellow travelers like Greg Osby fundamentally reframed jazz's rhythmic language — stop swinging, start designing.

— M-Base, Wikipedia, 2024

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

Gateway

Gateway · 1975

Extensions

Dave Holland · 1989

Prime Directive

Dave Holland · 1999

Dave Holland was an unknown young bassist playing London clubs in 1968 when Miles Davis heard him and invited him on the spot. Within days Holland had moved to New York to join the band, and by 1970 he was on Bitches Brew — one of the most influential sessions in jazz history.

The Unity Sessions

Pat Metheny Unity Group · 2016

Kin (<-->)

Pat Metheny Unity Group · 2014

Underground

Chris Potter · 2006

Prime Directive

Dave Holland · 1999

Pat Metheny kept no saxophone in his own working bands after 80/81 (1980). That chair stayed empty for more than three decades until Chris Potter filled it in the Unity Group, doubling on soprano and bass clarinet on Kin (<-->) (2014) and The Unity Sessions (2016).