Apple Cores
“one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today” with a “penchant for unbound exploration” TIP!

Apple Cores

James Brandon Lewis Trio

€ 26,95
  • LP
Label
Anti-
Expected release
7 February 2025
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Description

Apple Cores is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, “one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today” (The Guardian) with a “penchant for unbound exploration” (Pitchfork). 

Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip-hop and funk while remaining rooted in jazz, Apple Cores was recorded with Chad Taylor (drums/mbira) and Josh Werner (bass/guitar) over the course of two intense, entirely improvised sessions. The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. In addition to Baraka, the influence of another jazz giant looms mightily over Apple Cores: trumpeter and multiinstrumentalist, Don Cherry. 

In a testament to Cherry’s influence over the music that the trio is playing, Lewis designed each song title as a cryptogram of sorts, making subtle references to Cherry’s life and music. Apple Cores further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation. It follows his breakthrough with JazzTimes’ Album of the Year Jesup Wagon (2021), a dreamlike mosaic of gospel, folk-blues, and catcalling brass bands inspired by inventor George Washington Carver, and Eye Of I (2023), his joyous and exploratory debut for ANTI-.

Tracklist

  • 1.Apple Cores #1
  • 2.Prince Eugene
  • 3.Five Spots To Caravan
  • 4.Of Mind And Feeling
  • 5.Apple Cores #2
  • 6.& Moki
  • 7.Remember Brooklyn
  • 8.Broken Shadows
  • 9.D.C. Got Pocket
  • 10.Apple Cores #3
  • 11.Don't Forget Jayne
  • 12.Exactly, Our Music

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