Product Review

Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman has arrived. The
New York Times described his 2009 release
Travail, Transformation and Flow as a breathtaking
accomplishment and its #1 Jazz/Pop CD of 2009.
That album solidified Lehman s status as a young
visionary composer with powerful new ideas about
the future of jazz. On his new trio CD, Dialect
Fluorescent, Lehman defies his reputation as a
future-fixated modernist and combines his own
state-of-the-art compositions with a program of
compositions by jazz legends like John Coltrane
and Jackie McLean. But this album isn t just about
paying homage every piece is treated as an
opportunity to demonstrate a broad continuum of
possibilities within the jazz tradition.