Artist: James Brandon Lewis
Title: Days of FreeMan
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Okeh / Sony Music Ent.
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz, Modern Jazz, Soul Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [24Bit/48kHz]
Total Time: 01:02:39
Total Size: 798 MB
Visionary composer and tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis's bravest, yet most palpable artistic feat, Days Of FreeMan, opens with a poignant and profound introductory monologue from a maternal sage. She says: "The best thing of living is living who you are. You can't be somebody else; you gotta be what God gave you to be and who you are. You look in the mirror and see yourself and say 'I'm James Brandon Lewis."' Next, bass and drums congeal around the sapphire melodic motif of "Brother 1976," recalling one of those jazzy jewel-like hooks from a 1990s Native Tongue hip-hop jam. The effect is like 1990s hip-hop's fascination with jazz being spit back by a prodigious jazz innovator. Welcome to Days Of FreeMan (OKeh) available July 24, 2015.
Tracklist:
01 Foreword 00:32
02 Brother 1976 03:42
03 Of Dark Matter 03:24
04 Black Ark 05:04
05 Break I 00:49
06 Days of FreeMan 03:44
07 Bird of Folk Cries 07:11
08 Break II 00:46
09 Wilson 04:13
10 Lament for JLew 05:00
11 Break III 01:40
12 Bamako Love 03:51
13 Boom Bap Bop 04:22
14 Steelo 05:29
15 Break IV 01:19
16 Able Souls Dig Planets 04:14
17 Speaking from Jupiter 03:22
18 Unarmed with a Mic 03:16
19 Epilogue (Brother 1976) 00:41
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James Brandon Lewis - saxophone
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass
Rudy Royston - drums
Supernatural - rapper (featured on "Days of FreeMan")
Pearl Lewis - vocals
