Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
‘That moment where everything feels fine and other-worldly’
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS talks to Chris Searle about the the state he's seeking on his new album Molecular
James Brandon Lewis
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS is an inventive and freedom-seeking tenor saxophonist, whose surging patterns of sound resonate all through the new album Molecular he’s cut with his quartet.
From an early age, he became interested in all the jazz greats: “Parker, Coltrane, Rollins and Ornette -— I love the whole continuum,” he tells me, “I loved the emotion they provoked.
“If the music connects, then the genre doesn’t matter. I loved my hometown saxophone heroes Grover Washington and Charles Gayle and I gravitated to Joshua Redman as he was extremely popular. I was curious to know who he was checking out, which led me to Gene Ammons and countless others.”
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