Steve Lehman: Dialect Fluorescent – review

Pi RecordingsNew York alto saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman provided some of last year's lasting jazz excitements both live and on disc, with his virtuosic, mathematically precise new music that had both contemporary-classical and street-sharp undercurrents. However, Lehman's music can sound overly scientific to some - so this unexpectedly rootsy and frequently hard-swinging set, with its scattering of standard songs, might be the ideal solution. Partnered by the powerful bass/drums duo of ...

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