James Brandon Lewis Quartet Transfiguration 2024 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 400 https://www.intaktrec.ch/400.htm https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/album/transfiguration * James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone * Aruán Ortiz : piano * Brad Jones : bass * Chad Taylor : drums https://www.jblewis.com/ http://www.aruan-ortiz.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Jones_(bassist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Taylor_(drummer) Recorded by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios, Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland, on July 19 and 20, 2022. Reviews ~~~~~~~ By Ammar Kalia https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/17/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration-review-angular-explosive-experimentation American tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has one of the fiercest sounds in modern jazz. Hard-blowing and full of declarative melodies, he has released more than 10 records as a bandleader since his 2010 debut, Moments, channelling everything from meandering blues on 2014’s Divine Travels to ecstatic gospel on 2023’s For Mahalia, With Love and distorted punk improvisations with post-rock outfit the Messthetics on the same year’s Eye of I. Lewis’s quartet is typically an outlet for his more nimble compositions, producing harmonically complex backings for his heavy horn phrases. Their fourth album, Transfiguration, is no different, comprising eight tracks of angular yet explosive experimentation. [...] -- By Don Phipps https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/03/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration.html By Filipe Freitas https://jazztrail.net/blog/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration-album-review By S. Victor Aaron https://somethingelsereviews.com/2024/02/08/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration-2024/ Turgay Yalçın (tr/en) https://darkbluenotes.com/james-brandon-lewis-transfiguration/ Par Sergio Liberati (fr) https://jazzmania.be/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration/ Por Caravan Jazz (es) https://www.caravanjazz.es/index.php/discoteca-caravan-jazz/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-transfiguration/