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Steve Lehman Octet's 'Travail, Transformation, and Flow'
Call what saxophonist Steve Lehman does a variation on “math-jazz," with apologies to the time signature-hopping sub-genre that rose out of the mid-'90s indie rock scene. Though nothing from this album will ever be confused with Don Caballero, Lehman makes the seemingly counterintuitive choice to introduce computer analysis into jazz in the hopes of greater exploring ...
Finding an Asymmetrical Pulse with a Jagged Rhythm
One misperception about jazz, insidious enough to be shared by many of its proponents, is that the music adheres to a rigid code. But like any language, jazz accommodates mutation; it’s subject to the whims of usage. That doesn’t mean the music must respond to every new signal, but it does mean there’s still a place ...
Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
by Troy Collins
On Travail, Transformation, and Flow saxophonist Steve Lehman continues down the creative path blazed on his previous release, On Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2007). In addition to updating the earlier session's rhythmic energy with even more audaciously contemporary beats, he presents the first jazz-oriented exploration of the musical concept known as spectral harmony. In spectral ...
AAJ Celebrates Steve Lehman's New Release with Two Reviews and a Free Download
Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman's Travail, Transformation, and Flow is his most fully-realized album to date. AAJ is celebrating the June 9, 2009 release of his new octet album with two reviews and a free downloadable MP3 track from the album: Read Mark F. Turner's insightful review, up at AAJ today; Download “Echoes," the opening track on ...
Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow
by Mark F. Turner
Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman is well known for conceptual and cutting edge works including Manifold (Clean Feed Records, 2007) and On Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2008), as well as his involvement in seminal groups like the cooperative Fieldwork with pianist Vijay Iyer and drummer TyShawn Sorey. With past recordings consisting of smaller ensembles, the bandleader/composer literally multiplies ...
Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow & Kuntu
by Kurt Gottschalk
Steve Lehman Travail, Transformation, and Flow Pi Recordings 2009 Michel Edelin Trio Kuntu Rogue Art 2009 There's much about Steve Lehman's Travail, Transformation, and Flow that the packaging won't tell ...
Take Five With Steve Lehman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Steve Lehman: Named a Rising Star on the alto saxophone in 2006, 2007, and 2008 by the Down Beat Magazine International Critics Poll, Steve Lehman is a saxophonist and composer whose work resides on the frontier of contemporary music. He has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by The ...
Steve Lehman: Manifold
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un ottimo repertorio, quattro musicisti di grande sensibilità e intelligenza, una torrida serata portoghese e un'etichetta che raramente sbaglia un colpo. Che altro chiedere a un disco jazz? Registrato dal vivo durante il festival lusitano di Coimbra, Manifold è l'ennesima prova della maturità raggiunta da quel piccolo grande talento di Steve Lehman. Un lavoro asciutto e ...
Michel Edelin Trio: Kuntu
by John Sharpe
Perennially unfashionable and plagued by perceptions of insufficient heft and timbral variation, it's not surprising that flute-based trios are rarer than an apologetic banker. Not that this troubles the Paris-based RogueArt label, as straight after the Indigo Trio's Anaya (2009) comes another, this time under the direction of flautist Michel Edelin. Past associations for the Frenchman ...
Anthony Braxton / Kyle Brenders: Toronto (duets) 2007
by Mark Corroto
Want more Anthony Braxton Ghost Trance Music (GTM)? Yes please. Following recent releases of 12+1tet's 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12, 2007), Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 (Rastascan, 2008) and Quartet (GTM) 2006 (Important, 2008), this two-disc outing of GTM is paired down to simply (is anything ever simple with Braxton?) saxophone duets. Fans of Braxton and ...
