James Brandon Lewis

James Brandon Lewis is an American tenor saxophonist and composer, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1983. He studied at Howard University and at the California Institute of the Arts. His Red Lily Quintet album Jesup Wagon was named Album of the Year by the DownBeat critics in 2022. Lewis made his first album for Okeh, Divine Travels, in 2014. His long partnership with drummer Chad Taylor produced Radiant Imprints (2018) and Live in Willisau (2020, Intakt), and his quartet with Aruan Ortiz, Brad Jones and Taylor recorded Molecular (2020) for Intakt.