Style recipe for Suno v5

M-Base

M-base jazz from the 1980s: alto saxophone, electric bass, synth, futuristic and defiant in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

M-Base began in the 1980s as a concept rather than a style. Alto saxophonist Steve Coleman coined it as short for macro-basic array of structured extemporization, meaning a way of thinking about making music, and he has said he is uncomfortable calling the results jazz. Around him, in and near Brooklyn, gathered a loose collective of young African American musicians, dancers and poets, including Graham Haynes, Cassandra Wilson, Geri Allen, Robin Eubanks and Greg Osby. Coleman named its pillars as improvisation and structure, music as an expression of life experience and the use of non-western concepts, and ruled out neo-classical jazz, structureless free playing, fusion and commercially shaped music. Critics filed M-Base as a jazz style anyway, for lack of a better word. In 1991 the M-Base Collective recorded Anatomy of a Groove, and Coleman, Osby and Gary Thomas all played on Wilson's Jumpworld. Critic Bill Milkowski traced its roots to the Miles Davis band of Agharta in 1975. The ideas sat badly with the music business: Wilson signed with Blue Note in 1993 and leaned toward blues and folk, while Coleman kept going, and pianist Vijay Iyer later said he had affected more than one generation, as much as anyone since John Coltrane.

The recipe

M-base jazz, 1980s, futuristic, defiant…

A 33-tag, 564-character recipe carrying an instrumental vocal, set to 100–170 BPM.

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