Steve Lindeman & Friends

Steve Lindeman, Hammond organ and piano, will be joined by Kenji Aihara, guitar, Randal Clark, alto saxophone, Matt Larson, acoustic and electric bass, and Parker Swenson, drums, for this concert.

After completing graduate degrees in music theory and history, Lindeman was hired as a professor in the Brigham Young University School of Music. Since moving to Utah in 1996, he has been active as a jazz composer and keyboardist in the Salt Lake City area. He was a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, directed by Jim McNeely, and subsequently released an album of original compositions stemming from the Workshop, entitled “The Day After Yesterday,” performed by BYU’s Synthesis under the direction of Ray Smith, which has received considerable notice. As a one of the principal composers in the BYU Faculty Jazz Quintet, “Q’d up,” he has contributed many original compositions and arrangements to the six CDs produced by this group, with two more recordings scheduled for release next month, on which he plays piano, Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, and Wurlitzer electric piano. Also active as a scholar, Lindeman has published books and articles concerned with the 19th-century piano concerto, and various aspects of jazz.