James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Molecular Systematic Music: Live - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

James Brandon Lewis is on the top of the international jazz world and is considered one of the most influential voices incontemporary jazz. With a powerful, direct tenor saxophone sound and lyrical depth in both his solos and compositions, he makes a tremendous impact - especially with his quartet. Omni is the sixth album by the acclaimed James Brandon Lewis Quartet featuring Aruán Ortiz, Brad Jones, and Chad Taylor. Over the past decade, this outstanding group has been an integral part of Lewis's concept of InchMolecular Systematic Music,Inch which initially revolved around six or seven-note scales, evolved into a twelve-tone system, and continues to expand. With Omni, the concept grows to include further elements and reveals, among other things, a musical gesture that could be called Inchtwelve-tone gospel.Inch Omni is arguably James Brandon Lewis's most personal statement to date and once again demonstrates the mastery of the individual musicians in a group brimming with internal dialogue and collective creativity. InchA sermon without wordsInch is how Kevin Le Gendre titles the liner notes, and concludes InchWhat we find here is spiritual music in it's purest form.Inch

For Mahalia, With Love the highly anticipated new album by tenor saxophonist-composer James Brandon Lewis & his Red Lily Quintet, following on their poll-sweeping Jesup Wagon reimagines songs made famous by the gospel icon who galvanized a nation with her voice.Whereas Lewis used his transformative talents to newly illuminate renaissance man George Washington Carver on Jesup Wagon, the saxophonist does the same here for gospel-music force of nature Mahalia Jackson. And this time it's personal, because Lewis lived her music growing up, nurtured by a grandmother who had received Mahalias singing like a bolt from above. Much more than a tribute, this work is really a three-way conversation between Mahalia, my grandmother and me. The challenge was to turn these songs into jazz, the 21st century variety. What James and the band [ William Parker-bass, Chad Taylor-drums, Kirk Knuffke-cornet, Chris Hoffman-cello ] conjure with this music is miraculous.

Spellbound is the new album of Progressive Death Metal legends Sadist. It's a compelling mix of the band's traditional Death Metal and Progressive influences with ethnic and tribal sounds, centered around the life and the work of influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. This is one of the band's darkest albums to date, both musically and lyrically, still keeping Sadist's trademark sound intact. Produced and mixed by Tommy Talamanca at Nadir Music Studios in Genova, Italy