Cleveland, Ohio can lay a strong claim as one of the three mother cities, along with London and New York City of punk rock and culture (note: it took an act of will not to use the word gritty in that ...

Since 1995, All About Jazz has championed jazz as an art form and supported the musicians who create it. Over three decades, it has grown into one of the world's leading jazz resources, serving ...

Read James Brandon Lewis Quartet "Testify"+ Lakecia Benjamin with Sean Jones, Zaccai Curtis and Bria Skonberg by Hobart ...

The Messthetics (the jazz trio featuring Fugazi‘s rhythm section of Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, plus guitarist Anthony Pirog) and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis have announced another collaborative ...

Freshly minted album in hand, the James Brandon Lewis quartet filed down the center aisle of Solar Myth and took the stage before a sold-out, anticipatory audience. Then, they rocked the house, ...

D.C. trio the Messthetics combine jazz and punk, but that was never the far-fetched proposition it might sound like on the surface. Bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty, who formed the group ...

Here is a track from one of the year's most acclaimed musicians, James Brandon Lewis, who, as of late, doesn't just land in the best-of lists—he takes up multiple slots. Contact Ludovico Granvassu on ...

Nicole Glover's "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" James Brandon Lewis's "Abstraction is Deliverance" and Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith make a "Splash." Your support helps us continue ...

The distance between the underground rock scene and the genre-bending free jazz movement of the 1960s is shorter than it appears. On their second full-length collaboration, Deface the Currency, The ...

On the surface, punk and jazz music seemed to be worlds apart. Jazz, with its cerebral, complex arrangements... (SOUNDBITE OF JAMES BRANDON LEWIS AND JAMES BRANDON LEWIS QUARTET'S "HELIX (LIVE)") ...

James Brandon Lewis gives the impression of being wise beyond his years, but he’s got just as many questions as anybody else. The son of a minister, he grew up in Buffalo, NY, and attended Howard ...