(Abakuá, Arara, Congo, Yoruba). In 1996 Coleman along with a group of 10 musicians as well as dancers and the group Afrocuba de Matanzas worked together for 12 days, performed at the Havana Jazz Festival, and recorded the album The Sign and the Seal. In 1997 Coleman took a group of musicians from America and Cuba to Senegal to collaborate and participate in musical and cultural exchanges with the musicians of the local Senegalese group Sing Sing Rhythm. He also led his group Five Elements to the south of India in 1998 to participate in a cultural exchange with different musicians in the carnatic music tradition. In September 2014, Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for "refreshing traditional templates to create distinctive and innovative work in ... jazz." Discography As leader Motherland Pulse (JMT, 1985) On the Edge of Tomorrow (JMT, 1986) World Expansion (JMT, 1987) Sine Die (Pangaea, 1988) – recorded in 1987–88 Rhythm People (The Resurrection of Creative Black Civilization) (RCA Novus, 1990) Black Science (RCA Novus, 1991) – recorded in 1990 Phase Space with Dave Holland (Rebel-X, 1991) Drop Kick (RCA Novus, 1992) Rhythm in Mind (Novus, 1992) – recorded in 1991 The Tao of Mad Phat (RCA Novus, 1993) We Beez Like That! (InfoMatin, 1995) Myths, Modes and Means (BMG, 1995) The Way of the Cipher (BMG, 1995) Def Trance Beat (BMG, 1995) Curves of Life (BMG, 1995) Steve Coleman's Music: Live in Paris (BMG, 1995) The Sign and the Seal (BMG, 1996) Genesis & the Opening of the Way (BMG, 1997) The Sonic Language of Myth (RCA Victor, 1999) The Ascension to Light (BMG, 2001) Resistance Is Futile (Label Bleu, 2001) On the Rising of the 64 Paths (Label Bleu, 2002) Lucidarium (Label Bleu, 2004) Weaving Symbolics (Label Bleu, 2006) Invisible Paths: First Scattering (Tzadik, 2007) Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi, 2010) – recorded in 2006–07 The Mancy of Sound (Pi, 2011) – recorded in 2007 Functional Arrhythmias (Pi, 2013) – recorded in 2012 Synovial Joints (Pi, 2015) – recorded in 2014 Morphogenesis (Pi, 2017) – recorded in 2016 Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. I (The Embedded Sets) (Pi, 2018) – live Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II (MDW NTR) (Pi, 2021) – live As group M-Base Anatomy of a Groove (DIW, 1992) – recorded in 1991–92 As sideman With Doug Hammond Spaces (Idibib, 1982) – digitally remixed and produced by Coleman (Rebel-X,