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James Brandon Lewis
American jazz musician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Brandon Lewis (August 13, 1983 in Buffalo, New York)[1] is an American jazz composer and saxophonist.[2]
Life
Lewis graduated from Howard University in 2006, after which he focused on gospel music.[1] He received his MFA in 2010 from the California Institute of the Arts.[1] During his graduate training, he studied the work of music theorist Joseph Schillinger. [3] In 2012, he relocated to New York City and switched to jazz, releasing his first album Divine Travels in 2014.[1] This album was followed by nine more albums, including Jesup Wagon, which was selected as Album of the Year by DownBeat critics in 2022.[4] He was pursuing a PhD in Creativity at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia prior to its abrupt closure in 2024.[5]
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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)
- Molecular (2020, with Aruan Ortiz, Chad Taylor, and Brad Jones)
- Jesup Wagon (2021, with Red Lily Quintet)
- Code of Being (2021)
- MSM Molecular Systematic Music - Live (2022)
- Eye of I (2023)
- For Mahalia, with Love (2023, with Red Lily Quintet)
- Transfiguration (2024)
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (2024, Impulse! Records, with The Messthetics)
- Apple Cores (2025, Anti-)[6]
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