James Brandon Lewis "Apple Cores" 2025-05-23 with Clem Grogan fronting the

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The outlaw country sound is now balanced out with a gritty guitar and a machine gun snare that echoes the sound of 70’s rock

but was offered a deal with Warner Brothers

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James Brandon Lewis "Apple Cores" 2025-05-23 with Clem Grogan fronting theApple Cores is the latest full length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fiercest 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