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Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love

Read "The People I Love" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 5, 2020

On The People I Love, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, Janus-like looks back, while simultaneously looking forward. He recruits celebrated pianist Craig Taborn to bolster his longstanding trio of bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid. It was once said that Taborn was fated to play better on other people's records than his own. Happily that is no longer the case, but his enduring commitment gives him MVP status in this team, and that's saying something. Lehman enlists his help not ...

Radio & Podcasts

Trio Treats

by Maurice Hogue
September 21, 2019

This episode is dominated by trios, perhaps the most popular format in jazz today. Steve Lehman's new The People I Love debuts (with the addition of the formidable pianist Craig Taborn), definitely a must-hear for 2019. Golden Valley Is Now reunites Taborn with Dave King and Reid Anderson (they all grew up together), while another threesome that's very comfortable together is saxophonist Stephen Gauci, bassist Adam Lane and drummer Kevin Shea. They're the house band at the Bushwick in Brooklyn. ...

Album Review

Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love

Read "The People I Love" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 18, 2019

It is easy think about the shock of the new that was bebop when listening to The People I Love by alto saxophonist Steve Lehman's trio. Not that Lehman plays bebop as it was in the 1940s. It took mammals millions of years of evolution to climb down out of trees and fashion tools, but it has taken but a few decades to progress from Lester Young to Charlie Parker, to Eric Dolphy to Rudresh Mahanthappa. Think Darwin's foot on ...

Album Review

Steve Lehman: Sélébéyone

Read "Sélébéyone" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini
October 10, 2016

Due sarebbero i modi più appropriati e coscienziosi di iniziare questa recensione. Il primo: una rapida carrellata sui precedenti tentativi di contaminazione tra jazz e hip hop (entrambi i generi intesi nel senso più ampio e inclusivo possibile). Da Steve Coleman e Greg Osby alle lucide visioni di Mike Ladd e Vijay Iyer, dal Miles Davis di Doo-Bop alle sperimentazioni targate Thirsty Ear di Matthew Shipp, dalle leziosità anni Novanta (ricordate il sax di Branford Marsalis alle prese con Dj ...

Album Review

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Sélébéyone

Read "Sélébéyone" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 7, 2016

Steve Lehman's critically acclaimed albums have been topping national polls for more than half a decade. It's all the more an achievement when considering Lehman's unique, cerebral and ever-changing approach to artistic creation. His most recent project, Sélébéyone takes its name from this new group that Lehman founded in 2015. It incorporates elements of spectral music--where compositions are influenced by sound waves and mathematics--rap, hip hop, electronics, and of course, jazz. The overall vibe, however, jazz rap/hip hop.

Album Review

Steve Lehman: Sélébéyone

Read "Sélébéyone" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 6, 2016

The remastered edition of the Beastie Boys disc Check Your Head (Capitol, 2009) has a bonus disc with a live track from Budokan, Japan. A Japanese rapper, MC Poo, raps “Microphone Check" in broken English before continuing on in Japanese. Without the language, he knew what the Beasties were about and also without the Japanese language, we know what time it is. Same can be said for American saxophonist Steve Lehman's Sélébéyone. Sélébéyone or “intersection ," is a ...

Live Review

Steve Lehman Quintet al Verona Jazz Winter 2016

by Angelo Leonardi
March 24, 2016

Steve Lehman Quintet Verona Jazz Winter 2016 Verona Teatro Ristori 15.03.2016 Il concerto conclusivo di Verona Jazz Winter è stato anche il primo del mini-tour europeo di Steve Lehman in quintetto (sono seguite date a Pisa, Rotterdam e Amsterdam) e il suo debutto da leader nella città scaligera, dove venne col Ghost Trance Ensemble di Anthony Braxton appena ventunenne. Nei mesi di aprile e maggio il sassofonista tornerà a esibirsi ...