DIALECT FLOURESCENT

DIALECT FLOURESCENT

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