James Brandon Lewis Shares “Prince Eugene” From Upcoming Album ‘Apple Cores’
His sixteenth album, James Brandon Lewis Trio’s ‘Apple Cores’ further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation.
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James Brandon Lewis Releases New Album ‘Eye Of I’ This Friday
A tenor saxophonist that has a “balanced a deep, gospel-informed spirituality with free-jazz abandon and hard-hitting funk-meets–hip-hop underpinnings” (via Rolling Stone), James Brandon Lewis is releasing his ANTI- Records debut ‘Eye of I’ this Friday.
James Brandon Lewis Shares Powerful New Track “The Blues Still Blossoms”
The Blues Still Blossoms,” out today. “I wanted a blues that sounded like it was floating and never ending. And new, refreshing. The piece is built on word-like phrasing – I’m not thinking about time at all. It’s like a breathing walk, or a conversation.” The track is from Lewis’s …
James Brandon Lewis Trio Announces Fully Improvised New Album ‘Apple Cores’
Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip-hop and funk while remaining rooted in jazz, James Brandon Lewis Trio’s new album ‘Apple Cores’ was recorded with longtime collaborators Chad Taylor (drums/mbira) and Josh Werner (bass/guitar). The recording was a collective compositional process that happened over the course of two intense, …
Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis Conjures Celestial Spirits With New Track “Send Seraphic Beings”
Described as “an artist with so much fire in his sound,” by renowned jazz journalist Nate Chinen, James Brandon Lewis is sharing “Send Seraphic Beings” today, the final pre-release track from his upcoming album ‘Eye of I,’ to be released February 2. Filmed live in studio, listen to the moving …
James Brandon Lewis Announces New Album ‘Eye Of I’ Out February 3, 2023
Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is thrilled to announce ‘Eye Of I’ today, his ANTI- Records debut album that swaps out the extra-musical research and cerebral high concepts of his critically acclaimed ‘Jesup Wagon’ and the aesthetic manifestos of ‘An Unruly Manifesto’ for a lean power trio of tenor sax, …