James Brandon Lewis

Photos from the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival which featured performances by Laufey, Chief Adjuah, Bill Frisell, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Brittany Howard and many others.

Groove is paramount in the latest installment of Take Five, featuring new tracks by The Comet is Coming, James Brandon Lewis, Louis Cole, Snarky Puppy, and Butcher Brown.

"Jesup Wagon is coming from a raw place, and I wrote it in a raw, spiritual kind of mood," says saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, in this installment of Let Me Tell You 'Bout It with Greg Bryant.

The cutting edge can be both rangy and revealing. Here are five brand-new tracks that stretch perceptions.

Tracks from five new albums that expand horizons, each in its own way.Lionel Loueke, “Rockit”If you know anything about the brilliant West African…