We’re pumped to continue our #ICElab residency with the world premiere of IMPOSSIBLE FLOW by ICElab composer Steve Lehman, which you can hear at our FREE performance at (le) poisson rouge tonight.

Photo by Willie Davis

We’ve been devoting this blog almost exclusively to related posts for the past month; simply scroll down and check out the interviews, guest posts, photographs, and even the B-movie style trailer.

Again, don’t take our word for it: The New York Times featured this show as a Critic’s Pick! Steve Smith writes:

“This innovative new-music group constantly seeks out both fresh repertory and novel situations in which to showcase it; ICELab, a new incubation program, culminates in free events at a cozy, snazzy Greenwich Village nightclub. This concert features the premiere of “Impossible Flow” by Steve Lehman, a saxophonist and composer whose substantial modern-jazz credentials inform his brainy concert-music creations. ”

Again, this is a FREE event! Simply RSVP to ice@lprnyc.com with your name and the number in your party, and specify that you’d like to attend the April 19th ICElab show.

Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you tonight!

ICElab: Impossible Flow | Music of Steve Lehman

(le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY
Free admission; reservations strongly encouraged

This ICElab concert spotlights an evening-length new work by Steve Lehman, Impossible Flow, tailor-made for ICE. Long known as a virtuosic saxophone player at the center of New York’s experimental jazz scene, Steve Lehman has also developed a reputation as a brilliant composer. His 2009 album Travail, Transformation, and Flow was placed on an unprecedented 30 Top-Ten lists of jazz and experimental albums around the world. Meanwhile his work with composers Tristan Murail and Anthony Braxton, and his extensive experience in electroacoustic media, have yielded a musical style at the frontiers of contemporary concert music and experimental jazz.

Steve Lehman (b. 1978): Impossible Flow: for flute, alto saxophone, clarinet, horn, trombone, piano, double bass, drums and percussion (2011) WORLD PREMIERE
1. Impossible Flow: Prologue (2011) for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, piano, double bass, drum set and percussion
2. Baltimore/Berlin (2008) for clarinet, trombone, piano, double bass, drum set
3. For McCoy Tyner, Tristan Murail, Anthony Braxton and Alexander Scriabin (2011) for alto saxophone and piano
4. Impossible Flow: Epilogue (2011) for alto saxophone

Steve Lehman’s new ICElab work, Impossible Flow, is commissioned jointly by the Manhattan New Music Project and ICE.

About ICElab
ICElab is the International Contemporary Ensemble’s new model for commissioning, developing, and performing new music, designed to nurture the essential composer-performer collaboration through which groundbreaking musical ideas emerge.

ICElab receives leading support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, alongside generous funding from the Greenwall Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Steve Lehman’s new ICElab work,Impossible Flow, is commissioned jointly by the Manhattan New Music Project and ICE.