After his 2015 masterpiece, Synovial Joints, alto saxophonist/composer Steve Coleman left his listeners wondering how he could try to top that extraordinary project. With 21 musicians and an ambitious ...

The alto saxophonist's new record with his band Five Elements is a two-disc set, in which most pieces are played twice, in differing elastic versions. This is FRESH AIR. When alto saxophonist Steve ...

The relationship between jazz and boxing goes back to the pre-civil rights era, when entertainment and sports were some of only professions in which African Americans could excel. Miles Davis paid ...

The University of Chicago will award the 2017 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to Steve Coleman, a composer, saxophonist, educator and native of the city’s South Side. Coleman, who will receive the award at ...

This 90 minute documentary by Eve-Marie Breglia about the saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman sets a benchmark for just how intellectually engaging a film portrait of a jazz musician can be. The ...

ALLENTOWN — In his home on a side street off Hamilton Street in Allentown, Steve Coleman is unassuming: wearing a backward baseball cap, T-shirt and jeans — and, indoors, taking off his shoes at the ...

Chicago-born jazz musician Steve Coleman will tell you that he’s had a handful of exceptional mentors during his decades-long career. So when the alto saxophonist and composer got a call near the end ...

Composer and saxophonist Steve Coleman. (Photo by Andy Newcombe, CC BY 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

In his classic 1973 book “The Anxiety of Influence,” the prodigious literary critic Harold Bloom argues that great poets define themselves through an Oedipal struggle in which they misread the work of ...

STEVE COLEMAN Portage, Indiana Age 46 passed away Sunday, May 25, 2008. Survived by his wife of 17 years, Lori Coleman; sisters, Joan Douglas and Jean Coleman; brother, Warren Coleman; numerous nieces ...