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James Brandon Lewis

Born: August 13, 1983

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Hurry Red Telephone

By Marc Ribot

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: New Monster; Faucets of Terrible; Gnat; Ghost of Sleeping; Nan Guinan; Rara.

New Music from Max Light And More

by Bob Osborne
November 5, 2026

Telepathic interplay between musicians is a common theme in this selection of tracks from mostly new releases. Whether it is on written material or pure improvisation the interaction by both seasoned professionals and younger faces on the scene is demonstrated clearly in this exciting playlist.Playlist Max Light “Talking To You" from Unlearning (Chill Tone ...

James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor at Pardon, To Tu

by Marek J. Śmietański
October 26, 2026

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp, Simon Nabatov, Jason Robinson & Max Light

by Maurice Hogue
October 26, 2026

This episode of One Man's Jazz has the appearance of a tasting menu; a variety of styles and tastes. On the avant-garde side you can select from the eternally favourite duo of saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp, the powerful pianist from Berlin, Simon Nabatov, leading a band of New York heavies, or the German ...

Roberto Magris Celebrates Twenty Years With JMood Plus New Releases

by Bob Osborne
October 7, 2026

JMood Records, the Kansas City jazz label, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this special occasion, five new CDs were released simultaneously on September 1, 2026, they all feature Roberto Magris, a track from each release is included in the show. In between those tracks there are brand new releases from across the ...