James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Transfiguration (2024)

James Brandon Lewis Quartet
Transfiguration
2024 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 400
https://www.intaktrec.ch/400.htm
https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/album/transfiguration

* James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone
* Aruán Ortiz : piano
* Brad Jones : bass
* Chad Taylor : drums

https://www.jblewis.com/
http://www.aruan-ortiz.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Jones_(bassist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Taylor_(drummer)

Recorded by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios, Winterthur,
Zürich, Switzerland, on July 19 and 20, 2022.

Reviews
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By Ammar Kalia
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/17/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration-review-angular-explosive-experimentation

American tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has one of the fiercest sounds
in modern jazz. Hard-blowing and full of declarative melodies, he has released
more than 10 records as a bandleader since his 2010 debut, Moments, channelling
everything from meandering blues on 2014’s Divine Travels to ecstatic gospel on
2023’s For Mahalia, With Love and distorted punk improvisations with post-rock
outfit the Messthetics on the same year’s Eye of I. Lewis’s quartet is
typically an outlet for his more nimble compositions, producing harmonically
complex backings for his heavy horn phrases. Their fourth album,
Transfiguration, is no different, comprising eight tracks of angular yet
explosive experimentation. [...]

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By Don Phipps
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/03/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration.html

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration-album-review

By S. Victor Aaron
https://somethingelsereviews.com/2024/02/08/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration-2024/

Turgay Yalçın (tr/en)
https://darkbluenotes.com/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration/

Par Sergio Liberati (fr)
https://jazzmania.be/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration/

Por Caravan Jazz (es)
https://www.caravanjazz.es/index.php/discoteca-caravan-jazz/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration/