Motherland Pulse
Context
Title track of Steve Coleman's first album, recorded in 1985 between New York and Ludwigsburg and released by the German label JMT. Coleman wrote six of the eight compositions, and critics noted the album's funk sound and the alto playing of its author, later a co-founder of the M-Base movement.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to M-Base. Among the origins and influences of M-Base: Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, AACM.