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Fieldwork: Thereupon
by Dan McClenaghan
Early in his recording career, pianist Vijay Iyer formed his most compelling group, Fieldwork. The initial album release, Your Life Flashes (Pi Recordings, 2002) broke new ground and put down the roots from which everything Iyer has created in 20-plus years has grown and flourished. Iyer's recording career began in 1995 with Memorophilia (Asian Improv). The ensuing 30 years have seen more than a score of albums from the pianist in a leadership role as well as dozens ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman Trio and Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton
by Troy Dostert
Anthony Braxton has long had a reputation as being one of the most abstruse and forbidding musicians of the jazz avant-garde. Whether it is his impossibly esoteric notation systems, or the bizarre instrumentation he sometimes features on his recordings--his Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas) being just one example--one must tread carefully when engaging this unique musical mind. Hence it is a pleasure to encounter saxophonists Steve Lehman and Mark Turner joining forces for a tribute to the maverick composer. ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman, Nels Cline, Satoko Fujii & Hobbs/Shanko
by Maurice Hogue
It's not easy to find a more accomplished figure in creative music than Anthony Braxton. Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman knows that, and he honours his one-time mentor with a bristling new live album, The Music Of Anthony Braxton, destined for 2025 best-of lists. This recording is a reminder of Lehman's fearlessness. There are other excellent new releases in this episode: Dream A Dream from Satoko Fujii's Tokyo Trio, The Depression Tapes from the duo of altoist Jim Hobbs & bassist ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman Attraverso lo Specchio di Braxton
by Giuseppe Segala
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner The Music of Anthony Braxton Pi Recordings 2025 L'apertura di pensiero e l'impulso esplorativo di Anthony Braxton hanno stimolato non solo la folta schiera dei musicisti da lui direttamente coinvolti, come nel caso di Steve Lehman. Tra i grandi artisti che per propria iniziativa hanno scelto di confrontarsi con lui, ci piace ricordare Max Roach, del quale riportiamo le parole, in occasione delle registrazioni e dei concerti in ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner play the music of Anthony Braxton
by Hobart Taylor
Steve Lehman Trio and Mark Turner honor the music of Anthony Braxton, also a new collaboration between Sylvie Courvosier and Mary Halvorson and the latest from James Brandon Lewis.Playlist Muneer Nasser Quintet “Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from Blue House Session (Self Produced) 0:00 Host Speaks 9:42 Julia Hu?lsmann Quartet “Under The Surface" from Under The Surface (ECM) 11:13 Pulse “Wheeler Musings" from Pulse (New Focus) 16:34 Sun Mi Hong “ Heart Stone" from Fourth Page Meaning of a ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman, Betty Bryant, J.D. Allen and More
by Hobart Taylor
This week we feature artists who performed at Los Angeles' Angel City Jazz Festival, Steve Lehman, Kris Davis, Mauricio Morales, Jenny Scheinman and Elsa Nilsson. We also feature new music from saxophonist J.D. Allen, Betty Bryant, and welcome an avant-garde ragtime offering by Welsh pianist Joe Webb.Playlist Steve Lehman Orchestre National de Jazz “Los Angeles Imaginary" from (PI) 0:00 Jenny Scheinman “Ornette Goes Home" from All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) 5:43 Host Speaks 15:15 Kris Davis “Run ...
Continue ReadingSteve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina
by Mark Corroto
Does Ex Machina settle the long-standing debate about whether saxophonist Steve Lehman is human or a replicant. Lehman and his approach to music may remind one of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982) a movie adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick; Deckard was tasked with hunting and destroying humanoid replicants i.e. robots. The film never answers the question viewers might have as to whether Deckard is actually a replicant himself. ...
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