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Steve Lehman is a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University. In 2003, he taught a course on current trends of improvisation at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris.
Steve Lehman is a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Columbia University. In 2003, he taught a course on current trends of improvisation at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris.
September 23, 2009 - The latest CD from Steve Lehman and his octet — Travail, Transformation & Flow — is part of Lehman's work on music's cutting edge.
Lehman is an explorer in the esoteric compositional realm labeled "spectral harmony," and perhaps his most ambitious innovation is that he's taken that discipline's rigorous, math- and computer-based analytical processes and put them to work in the fluid, improvisation-driven genre of jazz.
Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review.
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