MSM Molecular Systematic Music
James Brandon Lewis Quartet
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2023
There is an added intensity to what the group does on stage, especially when they take the tempo down, primarily because there is such a carefully paced, tightly controlled energy in the life...
MSM Molecular Systematic Music
James Brandon Lewis Quartet
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Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2023
There is an added intensity to what the group does on stage, especially when they take the tempo down, primarily because there is such a carefully paced, tightly controlled energy in the life...
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James Brandon Lewis: Tenor Sax, Composition, Aru?n Ortiz: Piano, Brad Jones: Bass, Chad Taylor: Drums. The charismatic saxophonist and composer James Bran_don Lewis is the musician of the moment in the broad field of contemporary jazz. After the internationally acclaimed albums Molecular and Code of Being, he now presents a double CD of a memorable concert with his top-class quar_tet. The demanding but thoroughly melodic compositions of Molecular shine on this live album compared to the studio album in an unleashed form and with much desire to create and courage for open interplay. "The live recording shows not only the great joy of playing and pleasure in interplay and groove, but also the musical maturation process of four great musicians", writes Florian Bissig in the liner notes about the concert immortalised on this double CD, and, "It was a cele_bration that made one?s ears perk up...James Brandon Lewis? saxophone sound seemed to radiate a quivering liveliness and an expressive urgency rarely heard before. The four musicians, for all their precision and refinement of interplay, seemed to be playing as if it were the last time."
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- MSM Molecular Systematic Music
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceFebruary 2023
February 2023
There is an added intensity to what the group does on stage, especially when they take the tempo down, primarily because there is such a carefully paced, tightly controlled energy in the life cycle of each piece, and Lewis proves himself to be a master ballad player many times over.
January 2023
Obviously, the exhilaration of finally playing together after a 16-month hiatus plays a part, but the album’s greatest strength is the way it crystalizes Lewis’ vision of his “molecular systematic music.”