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INTAKT RECORDS

LIVE IN WILLISAU

$18.35

Details

Artist
ARLEN / LEWIS / TAYLOR
Format
CD
Label
INTAKT RECORDS
Released
Apr 17, 2020
Catalog #
ITK342.2
UPC
7640120193423

About

After the brilliant finale at the 2019 Willisau Jazz Festival with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and drummer Chad Taylor, Lucerne journalist Pirmin Bossart wrote: "The music sought neither to preach nor impress, instead revealing itself as pure, spirited intensity. 'Yeah! Yeah!' James Brandon cries after the final note of 'Willisee' adding a jubilant 'Wow!'". The duo had just finished a track which Dewey Redman and Ed Blackwell played on the same stage in 1980, a stage where Max Roach & Archie Shepp also wrote jazz history. Lewis and Taylor pay tribute to this legacy and conjure up the spirit of Great Black Music in the very first piece with an homage to John Coltrane. New Yorker James Brandon Lewis has attracted attention in recent years with his album UnRuly Manifesto. The record was listed among the best new releases of 2019 in the USA. The "New York Times" attests him a great musical autonomy: "James Brandon Lewis, a jazz saxophonist in his 30s, raw-toned but measured, doesn't sound steeped in current jazz academy values and isn't really coming from a free-improvising perspective. There's an independence about him." The drummer Chad Taylor comes from Chicago and has played with Fred Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Marc Ribot, Malachi Favors and Nicole Mitchel. On Intakt Records he plays on the live album with Aruan Ortiz and Brad Jones. Bossart writes: "The two musicians let us hear the great breath of an essential jazz tradition, it's clarity, raw beauty and urgency shining through, even in the melting pot of contemporary jazz debates. The musicians are not stuck in a version of the past. At every second they are part of the musical process, which shapes itself and pulses with their experiences of the here and now. This is about a continuum, occurring yesterday, today and tomorrow. Why else would jazz have retained till today it's transformative power?"

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Twenty Four 08:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    Twenty Four
    Duration
    08:34
    Composer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  2. 2 Radiance 07:01
    Track
    2
    Title
    Radiance
    Duration
    07:01
    Composer
    John Coltrane, James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  3. 3 Matape 10:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    Matape
    Duration
    10:32
    Composer
    Chad Taylor
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  4. 4 Black, Brown and Beige: Come Sunday 03:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    Black, Brown and Beige: Come Sunday
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Duke Ellington
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  5. 5 Imprints 08:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    Imprints
    Duration
    08:42
    Composer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  6. 6 Watakushi No Sekai 07:05
    Track
    6
    Title
    Watakushi No Sekai
    Duration
    07:05
    Composer
    Mal Waldron
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  7. 7 With Sorrow Lonnie 06:34
    Track
    7
    Title
    With Sorrow Lonnie
    Duration
    06:34
    Composer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  8. 8 Willisee 06:21
    Track
    8
    Title
    Willisee
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Dewey Redman
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor
  9. 9 Under - The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow 07:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    Under - The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow
    Duration
    07:43
    Composer
    Harold Arlen, James Brandon Lewis
    Performer
    James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor