James Brandon Lewis
James Brandon Lewis (August 13, 1983 in Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist.
James Brandon Lewis
Dirk Neven · James Brandon Lewis Trio, 9 maart 2017 BIM – James Brandon Lewis · Public domain
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- 1983 · Buffalo.
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- United States
- Occupation
- composer · jazz record producer · saxophonist · musician
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Lewis graduated from Howard University in 2006, after which he focused on gospel music. He received his MFA in 2010 from the California Institute of the Arts. During his graduate training, he studied the work of music theorist Joseph Schillinger. In 2012, he relocated to New York City and switched to jazz, releasing his first album Divine Travels in 2014. This album was followed by nine more albums, including Jesup Wagon, which was selected as Album of the Year by DownBeat critics in 2022. He graduated with a PhD in Creativity from the Rowan University in Philadelphia in 2025.
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James Brandon Lewis (born 13 August 1983) is recorded as a saxophonist, jazz musician and musician. The birth of James Brandon Lewis is recorded on 13 August 1983 in Buffalo, New York.
Discography
• Moments (2010) • Divine Travels (2014) • Days of FreeMan (2015) • No Filter (2016) • Radiant Imprints (2018, with Chad Taylor) • An Unruly Manifesto (2019) • Live in Willisau (2020, with Chad Taylor, Intakt) • Molecular (2020, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt) • Jesup Wagon (2021, with Red Lily Quintet, Tao Forms) • Code of Being (2021, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt) • MSM Molecular Systematic Music - Live (2022, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt) • Eye of I (2023, with Chirs Hoffman and Max Jaffe, Anti-) • For Mahalia, with Love (2023, with Red Lily Quintet, Tao Forms) • Transfiguration (2024, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt) • The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (2024, with The Messthetics, Impulse! Records) • Apple Cores (2025, with Josh Werner and Chad Taylor, Anti-) • Abstraction Is Deliverance (2025, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt) • Deface the Currency (2026, with The Messthetics, Impulse! Records) • Omni (2026, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones, Intakt)
James Brandon Lewis Trio 31 october 2022 BIM Amsterdam.
Dirk Neven
James Brandon Lewis, Arts for Art - Vision Festival 2024. Photo by Marek Lazarski
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- 1.James Brandon Lewis Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bi. AllMusic.
- 2.Preiträger:in 2023. Deutscher Jazzpreis. 2023-04-28.
- 3.James Brandon Lewis Podcast. Wayback Machine.
- 4.William Parker IN Order to Survive.
- 5.Fineberg, Jonathan. PhD in Creativity at Rowan University, alumni. Rowan.edu.
- 6.James Brandon Lewis. Anti.com.
- 7.Music. Jblewis.com.
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