Transfiguration

by James Brandon Lewis Quartet

Transfiguration cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 February 2024
  • Label: Intakt
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:12
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The acclaimed tenor saxophonist leads his dynamic acoustic quartet through a wildly energetic, brilliantly chaotic set of avant-garde jazz improvisations. Driven by intensely rhythmic interplay and deeply spiritual melodies, the entirely instrumental sessions capture the ferocious vitality of their live chemistry. It stands as a powerful, free-flowing testament to modern post-bop exploration.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, instrumental, acoustic, experimental, long-form, virtuosic, suite

Tracklist

  1. Transfiguration (7:04)
  2. Trinity of Creative Self (7:03)
  3. Swerve (6:04)
  4. Per 6 (9:12)
  5. Black Apollo (7:14)
  6. Empirical Perception (7:56)
  7. Triptych (6:03)
  8. 脡lan Vital (5:33)

Credits

  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet - primary artist
  • Brad Jones - bass
  • Chad Taylor - drums, drums (drum set)
  • Aru谩n Ortiz - piano
  • James Brandon Lewis - tenor saxophone, composed by [all compositions by], composer

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