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• projects as a leader •


Steve Lehman Trio + special guest Mark Turner: "The Music of Anthony Braxton"

Steve Lehman - alto sax and composition
Mark Turner - tenor sax
Matt Brewer - double bass
Damión Reid - drums


• projects as a sideman •


Liberty Ellman Sextet: "Radiate"

Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet
Steve Lehman - alto sax
Liberty Ellman - electric guitar and composition
Jose Davila - tuba and trombone
Stephan Crump - double bass
Damión Reid - drums


• links •

Steve Lehman on Bandcamp

Steve Lehman on Wikipedia

Steve Lehman on PI Recordings


• articles •

An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders New York Times (2022)

McLean's Scene: Jackie McLean as Improviser, Educator and Activist
Published in the journal "Critical Studies in Improvisation" Vol. 3, No. 2 (2008)
Presented on September 6, 2006 at the University of Guelph and on October 10, 2006 at Columbia University.
Italian translation and adaptation by Luca Conti as Jackie McLean: Improvvisatore! Educatore! Attivista! in "Musica Jazz", n. 776, luglio 2015.

I Love You With an Asterisk: African-American Experimental Composers and the French Jazz Press, 1970-1980
Published in the journal "Critical Studies in Improvisation" Vol. 1, No. 2 (2005)

Liminality as a Framework for Composition: Rhythmic Thresholds, Spectral Harmonies and Afrological Improvisation
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctoral of Musical Arts in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (2012)


• press quotes •

Music of genuinely visionary importance, a way forward for the art.
PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

The most advanced compositional thinking in jazz today.
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY

Trailblazing saxophonist Steve Lehman has been reshaping the sound of avant-garde jazz for the better part of a decade.
FLAVORPILL

Intellect and action are inseparable in Mr. Lehman's music. His Cognition suite, a series of four pieces from the album, invokes the names of four wide receivers for the Houston Oilers, about 1990. Digging into those pieces with the quintet, Mr. Lehman appeared to lose himself in deep concentration, but he was also crouched and coiled, ready for any exertion.
NEW YORK TIMES

The thing with Lehman is you never know when he's playing the changes and when he's going outside because he has the smarts to make the one sound like the other.
THE VILLAGE VOICE



• interviews •

All About Jazz - "Grooving Not Repeating" by Phil Dipietro

TomaJazz Interview (in spanish)


• reviews •

NPR's Fresh Air from WHYY - Audio review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by Kevin Whitehead

A Blog Supreme / NPR Jazz - "Listening Session" by Josh Jackson and Ben Ratliff

New York Times - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" CD release concert by Nate Chinen

All Music Guide - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by Michael G. Nastos

All About Jazz - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by Troy Collins

All About Jazz - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by Mark Turner

All About Jazz - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by Kurt Gottschalk

The Guardian (UK newspaper) - Review of "Travail, Transformation and Flow" by John Fordham

Il Giornale della Musica - Review of Steve Lehman Octet in Prato by Antonio Pellicori (in italian)

New York Time - Review of Octet at The Stone by Nate Chinen (2014)

The Brooklyn Rail - Review of "Mise en Abime" by George Grella (2014)

The Guardian - Review of "Mise en Abime" by John Fordham (2014)

All About Jazz Italy - Review of "Mise en Abime" by Luca Canini (in italian, 2014)

The Wall Street Journal - Review of "Mise en Abime" by Martin Johnson (2014)

All About Jazz - Review of "Mise en Abime" by Dan Bilawsky (2014)

 

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