Jazz Articles about Steve Lehman Quintet

Steve Lehman Quintet: On Meaning

by Phil DiPietro
December 14, 2007

Steve Lehman QuintetOn Meaning Pi Recordings2007

This release by alto saxophonist Steve Lehman places him in the vanguard of great new composer/performers. Not only does his music explore an idiosyncratic array of complex harmonic and rhythmic ideas, but Lehman and his remarkable band are capable of expanding, contracting, accelerating and decelerating the proceedings in real time, as the music unfolds.

On Meaning extends the concepts presented ...