Jazz Articles about Steve Lyman

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Dan Jonas: The Spirituality Suite

Read "The Spirituality Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 29, 2020

Utah-based trumpeter Dan Jonas says The Spirituality Suite was written as a response to his own struggles with spirituality in the twenty-first century. The music is thus largely conceptual, or as Jonas explains it, “Much of the inspiration . . . lies in the musical interval of a perfect fourth. The interval can be either consonant or dissonant, where the context in which it appears is the determining factor. Additionally, on one side lies a major third, one of the ...

Album Review

Steve Lyman: Revolver

Read "Revolver" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 14, 2012

Drummer Steve Lyman makes his debut as leader with Revolver, a mini-album of original compositions clocking in at just over 27 minutes. Brevity is the soul of wit, of course, and Lyman wisely avoids the desire to throw everything he has onto his first recording. The result is a concise, sharp, collection with a laidback, meditative feel that announces the arrival of an imaginative musician and writer.Lyman moved to New York in 2005 to study at the New ...