LEWIS,JAMES BRANDON ABSTRACTION IS DELIVERANCE – CD Seasonal Sale

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UPC: 7640120194376 Label: INTAKT RECORDS Format: CDRelease Date: May 30, 2025In stock items ship within 48 hoursJames Brandon Lewis is at the top of the international jazz world. With a powerful, direct and rich tenor saxophone sound and a lyrical quality that unfolds in both his solos and his compositions, he is causing a sensation – most effectively with his quartet. After the internationally acclaimed albums Molecular, Code of Being, MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live and Transfiguration, James Brandon Lewis now presents the fifth album by his acclaimed quartet with Aruán Ortiz, Brad Jones and Chad Taylor. Abstraction is Deliverance is a wonderful ballad album that isn’t one. With a profound sense for lyrical melodies, tonal concision and dynamics, the quartet develop a spirited interplay, reacting to the tiniest atmospheric oscillations on the sound and groove level. Teju Cole, whose books are considered outstanding works of recent American literature, contributes a text in the booklet to this new masterpiece. Look forward to an all-embracing pleasure!TRACK LIST:

1. Ware2. Per 73. Even the Sparrow4. Remember Rosalind5. Abstraction Is Deliverance6. Multicellular Beings7. Mr. Crick8. Left Alone9. Polaris