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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

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Transcend

By Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Come Sunday; Energy Fields; Gentle Collapse; Heaven; Curious Species; Argle-Bargle; Oclupaca; Slabs; Transcend.

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Omni

By James Brandon Lewis

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Omnipotent; The Sermon; Fire in My Bones; Testify; Omniscient; Call to Worship; Line Upon Line; Spirit of the Living God; Omnipresent.

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Abstraction Is Deliverance

By James Brandon Lewis

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ware; Per 7; Even The Sparrow; Remember Rosalind; Abstraction Is Deliverance; Multicellular Beings; Mr. Crick; Left Alone; Polaris.

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Deface the Currency

By The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Deface the Currency; Gestations; 30 Years of Knowing; Rules of the Game; Universal Security; Clutch; Serpent Tongue (Slight Return).

Article: In Pictures

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...

Article: Album Review

Alexis Marcelo: Solo Piano

Read "Solo Piano" reviewed by Carl Medsker

by Carl Medsker
September 5, 2026

"Boogieminish Bop" effusively kicks off Alexis Marcelo's first release under his own name, organically combining stride, boogie-woogie and bop into a contemporary melange. For over two decades, Marcelo has honed his chops and developed his personal language, drawing on the full history of jazz piano, his Hispanic roots, early classical training and experiences with hip hop, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From The Scornful Four And More

by Bob Osborne
September 3, 2026

This international collection brings together a varied range of music , spanning current releases from independent labels alongside historical performances from earlier eras of the genre. It incorporates diverse stylistic approaches, moving across contemporary jazz compositions, avant-garde improvisations, and larger ensemble arrangements. By pairing recent releases with archival material, the sequence offers an insight into the ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

2026 New Releases, Part 1

by Jon Greenbaum
August 1, 2026

These kinds of lists are like a mirror; our aesthetic preferences reflect back to us who we are. This list is saying I-don't-care-much-for-walking-bass-or-the-accepted-conventions-of-the-jazz-tradition. I don't want to accept that truth. I want to love The Tradition. And in my defense of my fealty to straight ahead jazz I will say that I just got ...