To Unruly Manifesto
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An UnRuly Manifesto is a jazz album by James Brandon Lewis . The recordings made in 2018 were released on Relative Pitch Records in February 2019 .
background
An unruly Manifesto (German: A rebellious manifesto ) is an album that Lewis Charlie Haden , Ornette Coleman and the Surrealism dedicated. Lewis describes this album as a call to action. "Every day is a chance to discover the truest version of yourself and then proceed relentlessly."
In An UnRuly Manifesto , Lewis leads a quintet with the members of his trio (heard on Lewis' 2017 album No Filter ) with Luke Stewart on bass and Warren Trae Crudup III on drums, complemented by trumpeter Jaimie Branch and for the album the guitarist Anthony Pirog .
Track list
- James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto (Relative Pitch Records RPR1078)
- Year 59: Insurgent Imagination 0:57
- To UnRuly Manifesto 11:57
- Pillar 1: A Joyful Acceptance 0:28
- Sir Real Denard 8:32
- The Eleventh Hour 9:26
- Pillar 2: What Is Harmony? 0:31
- Escape Nostalgic Prisons 4:16
- Haden Is Beauty 8:39
- Pillar 3: New Lived, Authority Died 0:20
- All compositions are by James Brandon Lewis.
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , the saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has so far consistently produced commendable recordings: An Unruly Manifesto demands attention for his fearlessness and self-confidence. The music is based on the drive of tracks like "Sir Real Denard" and "Escape Nostalgic Prisons". The former creates an urgency that is very similar to that of Steve Coleman's music. Lewis' music was shaped by both hip-hop and rock , but there was no doubt that he was developing the traditions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman . His pun allusions to Ornette Coleman's “Beauty is a Rare Thing” can be found in “Haden Is Beauty,” a dedication to Charlie Haden with Stewart's opening and an intonation performed by the band Old and New Dreams with Lewis in the role of Dewey Redman and Jaimie Branch was borrowed from Don Cherry , Corroto said. “And like so many recordings by this quartet, this eight-minute piece could have continued for another thirty minutes without complaint,” praises the author. “That brings us to the title track, which is anything but a disobedient journey. It builds energy on a forward thrust, with Lewis' confident Herculean tenor clearing a forest of today's jazz posers. "
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Also in All About Jazz , Phil Woolever judged that Lewis had written another good testimony to his dynamic ability and progressive vision. Some sequences might cryptically evoke some of the layered, Coltrane-like crescendos that Kamasi Washington created during his breakthrough a few years ago. It doesn't take much time to understand, however, that this epic is Lewis' exclusive domain and that his own mainstream breakthrough is justified as well. The technical production (mastered by Paul Wickliffe) illustrates how effectively the drummer Crudup plays when he conscientiously anchors Lewis' dynamic tenor runs, while the trumpet from Branch follows with tasteful accents that give the twelve-minute title track a culminating grandeur. It may take a while - and a few more recordings - until Lewis is classified in his discipline alongside milestone provocateurs like Karl Marx or Andreé Breton , the author sums up, “but with this thundering statement he is on one good way."
According to Paul Acquaro, who rated the album with 4½ (out of five) stars on the Free Jazz Blog , the music remains rooted in fertile soil, even as it expands, generating ideas and new lush greenery. The core trio of Lewis, Stewart and Crudup is a pretty unbeatable team, and with the addition of the other instruments, a masterpiece emerges. Pirog's guitar work is impressive, but it always serves to improve the entire organism. Branch's trumpet work adds timbre and radiance.
The critic of the blog Avant Scena noted that five outstanding jazz masters improvised wonderfully - they managed to create a bright and driving sound. Roots of avant-garde jazz , well-known ways of playing and improvisation would be contrasted with the latest trends in experimental jazz. The music is bright and stimulating - the traditions and the most effective playing styles and methods of the jazz luminaries are very often used in their improvisations. Their music is the burst of drive and energy, gently put together with crazy experiments, strange, unusual, original or simply impressive ideas and incredible instruments.
Aaron Novik named An Unruly Manifesto one of the best releases of 2019 on his blog Bird is the Worm and praised the music for being “relentless and no less than exciting. But beyond that it has heart. It is evident in every note and continues to bleed no matter how fleeting the music gets, and therefore the infallible melody of this music is the quality that puts all others in the shade. ”James Brandon Lewis made a recording that in every way was the The character of protest is asserting oneself against everything that is wrong ... It is rare to hear the delicate pulse of music that rages with the world's anger that is at the seams.
Howard Mandel said in the Down Beat that Lewis was aware of his role models and was flying “far, high and brave”. It starts with bold themes, strong grooves, simple modes and rich backgrounds. He encourages everyone involved to form episodes from within, which culminates in Coltrane's “ Ascension ” -like “Escape Nostalgic Prisons”. Trumpet player Jaimie Branch, who starred on Lewis' first album with another horn player, always stayed close to him and added boastful gestures, bleating, blurring and Don Cherry-esque shouts. The rhythm section is a force in itself; bassist Luke Stewart reminds of Lewis' former collaborator Jamaaladeen Tacuma , but also of Charlie Haden. The punchy fills of drummer Warren Trae Crudup III drove the ensemble, soder author, its bustle is a productive incentive. Guitarist Anthony Pirog comes up with fascinating backgrounds, wild effects and sweet lead guitar playing, like at the end of "Notes". "So that we don't forget that jazz was forged by breaking norms," says Mandel, " An Unruly Manifesto celebrates the aspirations, complications and results of freedom."
S. Victor Aaron, who wrote the album in Something Else! reviewed, discusses Lewis' reference to surrealism; this is defined in the Webster about “the principles, ideals or practices” “to create fantastic or incongruent images or effects in art, literature, film or theater through unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations”. That is found throughout the album as a general guiding principle that makes it a very inventive work from start to finish.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ To UnRuly Manifesto. Bandcamp, February 1, 2019, accessed July 18, 2020 .
- ^ A b Paul Acquaro: James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto. Free Jazz Blog, February 22, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ James Brandon Lewis - An UnRuly Manifesto at Discogs
- ↑ Mark Corroto: James Brandon Lewis: An Unruly Manifesto. All About Jazz, January 25, 2019, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Phil Woolever: James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto. All About Jazz, May 6, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 .
- ↑ James Brandon Lewis - “An UnRuly Manifesto” (Relative Pitch Records, 2019). Avant scena, February 16, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Aaron Novik: James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto. Bird is the Worm, February 1, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto. January 23, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
- ^ S. Victor Aaron: James Brandon Lewis: An UnRuly Manifesto. Something Else !, January 23, 2019, accessed July 17, 2020 .