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 ...

Steve Lehman Quintet CD Release Celebration on January 12, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
December 30, 2007

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to announce the CD release celebration of On Meaning (Pi Recordings), the highly anticipated new recording from Steve Lehman's critically acclaimed quintet. Widely regarded as one of today's bracingly original young composers, Lehman combines groove-oriented musical content with highly contrapuntal, asymmetrical, and non-repetitive structural devices. Imagining his music in this way, Lehman creates elaborate formal works that remain rooted in the physicality of live performance and the visceral nature of urban rhythm.

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