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Release Date Friday 7th February 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Apple Cores is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist
James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fercest sounds in jazz today" (The
Guardian) with a "penchant for unbound exploration" (Pitchfork)
Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip-hop and funk while remaining rooted in
jazz, Apple Cores was recorded with Chad Taylor (drums/ mbira) and Josh Werner
(bass/guitar) over the course of two intense, entirely improvised sessions.
The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist
Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. In addition to Baraka, the infuence of
another jazz giant looms mightily over Apple Cores: trumpeter and multiinstrumentalist, Don Cherry. In a testament to Cherry's infuence over the music that
the trio is playing, Lewis designed each song title as a cryptogram of sorts, making
subtle references to Cherry's life and music.
Apple Cores further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolifc musical
voices of his generation. It follows his breakthrough with JazzTimes' Album of the
Year Jesup Wagon (2021), a dreamlike mosaic of gospel, folk- blues, and catcalling
brass bands inspired by inventor George Washington Carver, and Eye Of I (2023), his
joyous and exploratory debut for ANTI-.
CD Tracks: Apple Cores #1 / Prince Eugene / Five Spots to Caravan / Of Mind and
Feeling / Apple Cores #2 / Remember Brooklyn & Moki / Broken Shadows / D.C. Got
Pocket / Apple Cores #3 / Don't Forget Jayne / Exactly Our Music
LP Tracks: Apple Cores #1 / Prince Eugene / Five Spots to Caravan / Of Mind and
Feeling / Apple Cores #2 / Broken Shadows / Remember Brooklyn & Moki / D.C. Got
Pocket / Apple Cores #3 / Don't Forget Jayne / Exactly, Our Music
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