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• James Brandon Lewiss Apple Cores (2025) is a bold, genre-blurring journey that fuses free jazz, hip-hop, funk, and spiritual groove into a cohesive and electrifying statement. Recorded in two fully improvised sessions with longtime collaborators Chad Taylor (drums, mbira) and Josh Werner (bass, guitar), the album is both a tribute to avant-garde legends like Don Cherry and Amiri Baraka and a forward-looking manifesto for contemporary jazz.

  The trios chemistry is palpable, with Lewiss tenor saxophone weaving through angular rhythms and dub-inflected textures. Tracks like Remember Brooklyn & Moki and Five Spots to Caravan nod to Cherrys legacy, while Broken Shadows pays homage to Ornette Coleman. The result is a record that feels both grounded in jazz tradition and unbound in its explora