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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Visionary composer and tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’s bravest, yet most palpable artistic feat, Days Of FreeMan, opens with a poignant and profound introductory monologue from a maternal sage. She says, “The best thing of living is living who you are. You can’t be somebody else; you gotta be what God gave you to be and who you are. You look in the mirror and see yourself and say ‘I’m James Brandon Lewis.”’Next, bass and drums congeal around the sapphire melodic motif of “Brother 1976,” recalling one of those jazzy jewel-like hooks from a 1990s Native Tongue hip-hop jam
A New Day
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cantos Del Ocells; To a Young Student; Means for a Rescue; Only Sometimes; Luigi (The Boy Who Lost His Name); My Funny Valentine; Wonderland.
Transfiguration
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Transfiguration; Trinity Of Creative Self; Swerve; Per 6; Black Apollo; Empirical Perception; Triptych; Élan Vital.
The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: L'Orso; Emergence; That Thang; Three Sisters; Boatly; The Time Is The Place; Railroad Tracks Home; Asthenia; Fourth Wall.
Laugh Ash
By Ches Smith
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Minimalism; Remote Convivial; Sweatered Webs (Hey Mom); Shaken, Stirred Silence; The Most Fucked; Winter
Sprung; Disco Inferred; Unyielding Daydream Welding; Exit Shivers.
Gifts
By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Gifts; Kind of Teal; Take the 'A' Train; Rain Check; Blood Count; Day Dream; Seven Years Ago; Small Bar; Third
Dream; Goodbyes.
2024 Record Store Day Black Friday Jazz Releases
by Kyle Simpler
Record Store Day Black Friday is back for 2024. There are releases that appeal to practically every genre of music, and jazz is no exception. This year's lineup features releases for jazz enthusiasts and vinyl collectors alike. From previously unreleased live performances to excellent vinyl debuts, this year's offerings showcase a variety of jazz styles. Below ...
Giovanni Guidi: A New Day
by Mario Calvitti
Quello che colpisce maggiormente all'ascolto del nuovo lavoro del pianista Giovanni Guidi col suo trio (per l'occasione espanso a quartetto in quattro dei sette brani con l'ingresso del sassofonista James Brandon Lewis) è l'estrema rarefazione della sua musica, evidente già dal primo brano “Canto de ocells," una canzone tradizionale catalana, ma spinta ancora di più nei ...
Angelica Sanchez / Chad Taylor: A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet
by John Sharpe
Two of the leading lights on their instruments strike sparks in a series of impromptu duets on A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet. Pianist Angelica Sanchez has birthed a string of impressive releases, Nightmare Creatures (Pyroclastic, 2023) with her Nonet, and the twin keys extravaganza How To Turn The Moon (Pyroclastic, 2020) ...
Lucy Woodward, Pericopes +1, Jasper Blom, Tom Harrell & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The stunning new project by Lucy Woodward sets the tone for the return of Mondo Jazz after a brief summer hiatus.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Lucy Woodward “Trying Times" Lucy Woodward & The Rocketeers (GroundUp) 0:16 Host talks 4::45 Jasper Blom Quartet “Jouska" ...
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