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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

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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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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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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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: Radio & Podcasts

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Myra Melford, Threadgill/Iyer/Prieto & Jonathan Delazer

by Maurice Hogue
September 22, 2026

Two of the creative scene's most heralded artists are back with exciting new music: pianist Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet have released their third album Sure Grand Out with Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, Tomeka Reid & Lesley Mok and the master, Henry Threadgill's parallel release to Cut Your Where You Was--Fifteen--which celebrates the fifteenth year ...

Article: Paul's Picks

New York City Jazz Performance Preview: Fall 2026

by Paul Reynolds
September 16, 2026

New York season includes the first fall programs from two recently opened midtown clubs--The Pocket and Jazzcultural and higher-profile shows for fine emerging performers such as singer Ekep Nkwelle and pianist/arranger Joe Block. The preeminent departure is that of Wynton Marsalis who, after 30 years in the job, will lead his last season as ...

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, ...