James Brandon Lewis "An Unruly Quintet"

Sonny Rollins, who had already surprised the jazzosphere by adorning David S. Ware twenty years ago, has named him as one of the young saxophonists who matter today. James Brandon Lewis has a tenor saxophone slaughter worthy of his august forefather: it rolls, unrolls, sweeps, projects, carries, sinuates, procrastinates and also develops, with a galvanizing dynamism. It plays. In addition, he was initiated by Wadada Leo Smith who made him apprehend the continuum of all creative musics and their transformative power. Whenever the intrepid Lewis puts his craft back on the book, it is to confront the unknown of an idea, to meet the challenge of a new intersection between the emotion one experiences and the intelligence that we develop. Freely.