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James Brandon Lewis

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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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Abstraction Is Deliverance

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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Live in Philadelphia

Label: Otherly Love Records/Ars Nova
Released: 2025
Track listing: Seductive Fantasy; Back to You; We'll Wait For You/Hit That Jive, Jack; The Last Transmission; Stay Lifted; On Solar Planes; Space Ghost; The Hills; Square The Circle; In The Silence Of The Infinite; Cosmic Dreamers, Ode to Elegua; The Unknown; Warn Them; Slip Stream; Tachyons Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints; Rindima.

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Article: Live Review

The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis at the Beachland Tavern

Read "The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis at the Beachland Tavern" reviewed by John Chacona


The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis Beachland Tavern Cleveland, OH September 12, 2025 Cleveland, Ohio can lay a strong claim as one of the three mother cities, along with London and New York City of punk rock and culture (note: it took an act of will not to use the word ...

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Article: Meet the Staff

Meet World of Jazz Host Bob Osborne

Read "Meet World of Jazz Host Bob Osborne" reviewed by Bob Osborne


I currently live in: Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester UK. I joined All About Jazz in: 2018 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? Having done a weekly radio show on various stations since 2010 I welcomed the invitation and opportunity to share, with a wider audience, the music I ...

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Article: Play This!

James Brandon Lewis: Ware

Read "James Brandon Lewis: Ware" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Here is a track from one of the year's most acclaimed musicians, James Brandon Lewis, who, as of late, doesn't just land in the best-of lists--he takes up multiple slots. From Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt Records) --featuring Lewis' tightly-knit quartet with Aruán Ortiz on piano, Brad Jones on bass and Chad Taylor on drums ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Wojtek Mazolewski, Anthony Wilson, Andrea Ayace Ayassot, Cosmic Ear & More

Read "Wojtek Mazolewski, Anthony Wilson, Andrea Ayace Ayassot, Cosmic Ear & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Another dive into the lesser-charted corners of the jazz world--recent gems, future classics... with no algorithms involved--this playlist was entirely hand-cranked for your sonic delight.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Anthony Wilson “Walk Tall" House of the Singing Blossoms (Sam First) 0:16 Host talks ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Latin Sounds from the Catskills + New Releases

Read "Latin Sounds from the Catskills + New Releases" reviewed by David Brown


First up, Sonny Rollins our man in jazz, a live free-form date recorded 63 years ago this week at the Village Gate, NYC; from there, we move into a summer set of sounds from the NY Catskill mountains via the 50s Latin jazz craze with Johnny Conquet and his Orchestra, vocalists Ruth Wallis and Abbe Lane ...

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Article: Album Review

Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia

Read "Live in Philadelphia" reviewed by Mark Corroto


In 2025, the Collegium Cardinalium, or College of Cardinals--a body formed in the Middle Ages--convened a conclave in Rome to elect a new Pope for the Catholic Church. Nearly five centuries before the inception of such conclaves, Tibetan Buddhists established their own process of succession by searching for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, often discovered ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Theo Croker, Sarah Buechi, Jon Irabagon, Nicholas Payton and Anais Reno

Read "Theo Croker, Sarah Buechi, Jon Irabagon, Nicholas Payton and Anais Reno" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


New releases from Theo Croker, Jon Irabagon, Anais Reno and Nicholas Payton.Playlist Yuko Mabuchi “Tribute to my Homeland" from Quantum (SRG Jazz/Universal) 00:00 Satoko Fujii “ Aruku" from Dream a Dream (Libra) 9:08 Host Speaks 19:47 Jon Irabagon “At What Price Garlic" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) 21:09 James Brandon Lewis “Left Alone" from ...


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