Steve Lehman
Steve Lehman (* 1978 in Brooklyn / New York City , New York) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Live and act
Lehman grew up in Hartford / Connecticut and lived in France for a long time. He attended Milton Academy and studied at Wesleyan University . During high school he was a student of Anthony Braxton , Jay Hoggard and Jackie McLean at the Hartt School of music , later he studied with Alvin Lucier , Ron Kuivila and Pheeroan akLaff .
Since the late 1990s he has performed in New York with musicians such as Kevin O'Neil , Tomas Fujiwara , Taylor Ho Bynum , Tony Leone and Warren Byrd . With the Fulbright program he came to Paris in 2002, where he gave seminars at the Conservatoire de Paris , but also gave concerts with Michel Edelin . Since 2006 he has been doing a doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University (under Fabien Lévy , Tristan Murail , George Lewis and Fred Lerdahl ). In 2010 he performed with his own octet at the Moers Festival ; In 2018 he is a member of the Vijay Iyer Sextet.
Since 2001, Lehman has released several albums as a jazz leader. He was also known as a composer of orchestral and chamber music works. In 2014, Lehman received the $ 275,000 Doris Duke Artist Award. In the same year the album was Mise en Abîme his Octet in the annual critics' survey ( Jazz Critics Poll ) of NPR voted best jazz album of the year. In 2015 he won Down Beat's critics polls in the Rising Star category .
Discography
- Structural Fire with John Hébert , Kevin Norton , Kevin O'Neil, 2001
- Camouflage with Roy Campbell , John Hebert, Kevin Norton, Kevin O'Neil, 2001
- Steve Lehman's Camouflage Trio Interface with Pheeroan akLaff, Mark Dresser , 2003
- Artificial Light with Chris Dingman , Drew Gress , Eric McPherson , Mark Shim , 2004
- Demian as a Posthuman with Vijay Iyer , Eric McPherson, Me'shell Ndegeocello , Tyshawn Sorey , 2005
- On Meaning with Chris Dingman , Jonathan Finlayson , Drew Gress, Tyshawn Sorey, 2007
- Travail, Transformation, and Flow , 2009
- Dialect Flourescent , with his trio of Damion Reid (dr), Matt Brewer (b), Pi 2012
- Sélébéyone ( Pi Recordings , 2016), with Gaston Bandimic , Hprizm, Maciek Lasserre , Carlos Homs , Drew Gress , Damion Reid
- The People I Love (2019), with Craig Taborn , Matt Brewer, Damion Reid
Web links
- Homepage of Steve Lehman
- Sélébéyone: With jazz from New York to Dakar (interview)
- Steve Lehman at Allmusic (English)
- Steve Lehman at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doris Duke Artist Award 2014 ( Memento from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in JazzTimes
- ^ Francis Davis: The 2014 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. NPR Music, December 19, 2014, accessed August 23, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehman, Steve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn, New York City , New York |