in a perfect world M-Base would be giving artists and activists $500,000 grants, but today’s laurels for Steve are a good step, a giant step even
Steve Coleman won a MacArthur Genius grant. He joins Steve Lacy, Corey Harris and many others.
M-Base, his thing. Not sure how it works. It says in his bio he was part of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, mid-1990s. Went to Illinois Wesleyan.
Would play somewhat obscure halls in Oakland, I recall.
I’ve never seen him play.
A vocalist from Stanford, Jen Shyu is in his crew.
Kudos.
edit to add: you say “booya” we say “sooya”…
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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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