James Brandon Lewis - For Mahalia, With Love / These Are Soulful Days (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 730 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 284 Mb | 02:03:42
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: TAO Forms
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 730 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 284 Mb | 02:03:42
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: TAO Forms
Love is connection. Love is gratitude. Love is passion. Love is audacity. These qualities define tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’ second album with the glorious Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love. Whereas Lewis used his transformative talents to illuminate renaissance man George Washington Carver in a whole new way on Jesup Wagon, the groundbreaking 2021 masterpiece that swept most major jazz polls, the saxophonist does the same for the pioneering gospel-music force of nature Mahalia Jackson. But this time it’s personal, because Lewis lived her music growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., playing there in churches as a youth and being nurtured by his grandmother, who had received Mahalia’s singing like a bolt from above.