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.