{"id":4753,"date":"2025-10-10T04:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bjf.rs\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=4753"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:14:18","slug":"james-brandon-lewis-quartet-sad","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/bjf.rs\/en\/artists\/james-brandon-lewis-quartet-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"James Brandon Lewis Quartet (SAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n\n<div class=\"beocode-classic-block  \">\n\n    <div class=\"beocode-classic-block-inner wrapper-s \">\n          <div class=\"content\">\n                           \n                <p><strong>James Brandon Lewis \u2013 tenor saksofon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aru\u00e1n Ortiz \u2013 klavir\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Jones \u2013 bas\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chad Taylor \u2013 bubnjevi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenor saksofonista i kompozitor D\u017eejms Brendon Luis ro\u0111en je u Bafalu 1983. godine, i odrastao u crkvi, \u0161to je formiralo jezgro njegove duhovnosti. Ve\u0107 tokom studija sara\u0111ivao je sa poznatim d\u017eez, rok i gospel muzi\u010darima, me\u0111u kojima su Beni Golson, D\u017eeri Alen, Volas Runi, D\u017eon Led\u017eend, Kej Di Leng, Vanesa Vilijams, Dorinda Klark Kol i \u201ekraljica gospela\u201c Albertina Voker. Po objavljivanju prvog albuma \u201eMoments\u201c (2010) preselio se i nastavio da radi u Njujorku. Kritika ga je odmah ocenila kao \u201eslede\u0107eg heroja d\u017eeza\u201c, \u0161to je potvrdio ve\u0107 na drugom ostvarenju \u201eDivine Travels\u201c (2014) ukrstiv\u0161i koplja sa veteranima improvizacije, Vilijamom Parkerom i D\u017eeraldom Kliverom \u2013 sastavio je duh gospela sa vatrom \u201efree\u201c d\u017eeza. Istra\u017eivanja u tom domenu nastavio je deceniju kasnije, objavljuju\u0107i izvanredan album sa najve\u0107im himnama gospela posve\u0107en Mahaliji D\u017eekson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Na tre\u0107em albumu \u201eDays of Freeman\u201c (2015) pristupio je zanimljivom eksperimentu: nadahnu\u0107e je na\u0161ao u hip-hopu s kraja 80-ih godina 20. veka (sastavi Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest i saradnja Run D.M.C. sa Aerosmith), istra\u017euju\u0107i kako da stil i tehniku repera emulira svojim tenor saksofonom. Te godine je premijerno nastupio na Beogradskom d\u017eez festivalu, na izdanju pod sloganom \u201eNew Generations\u201c. \u0160tavi\u0161e, osetiv\u0161i da je pred Luisom zaista blistava karijera, odabrali smo ga za jedno od dva lica na plakatima manifestacije (drugo lice je bila japanska pijanistkinja Hiromi).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dosad je objavio \u0161esnaest albuma pod svojim imenom u razli\u010ditim formacijama. Godine 2022, album \u201eJesup Wagon\u201c sa Red Lilly Quintetom izabran je za album godine u anketi kriti\u010dara magazina DownBeat<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a kvintet je progla\u0161en najtalentovanijim mladim sastavom. Dve godine kasnije Luis je dvostruki laureat me\u0111u talentima: izvo\u0111a\u010d (apsolutna kategorija) i kompozitor godine. Ovogodi\u0161nji trijumf na listama kriti\u010dara magazina DownBeat je sve prethodno zasenio, sa nekoliko izuzetnih plasmana na \u201eglavnim listama\u201c. D\u017eejms Brendon Luis je izvo\u0111a\u010d godine (apsolutna kategorija) i najbolji tenor saksofonista, a \u010dak tri njegova albuma na\u0161la su se me\u0111u prvih dvadeset, sa vi\u0161e poena od prvoplasiranog albuma Patri\u0161e Brenan. Me\u0111u njima je i album \u201eTransfiguration\u201c, snimljen u postavi sa kojom \u0107e nastupiti na 41. izdanju na\u0161eg festivala.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","artists-tag":[13],"class_list":["post-4753","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artists-tag-25-10"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>James Brandon Lewis Quartet (SAD) - 41. 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