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Steve Lehman Octet
Travail, Transformation and Flow (PI30)
Mise en Abime (PI54)
WITH two virtuosi like the great alto saxophonist Jackie McLean from the post-bop era and the enigmatic free jazz multireedman Anthony Braxton as his teachers, the New Yorker Steve Lehman, born in 1978, was virtually bound to have something new to say in his music.
These two albums, with Lehman blowing within an octet formation including some powerful bandmates, show his most recent lines of sonic travel.
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