James Brandon Lewis: The Mahalia Project
Love is connection. Love is gratitude. Love is passion. Love is audacity. These qualities define tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis’ second album with the glorious Red Lily Quintet: For Mahalia, With Love. Whereas Lewis used his transformative talents to illuminate renaissance man George Washington Carver in a whole new way on Jesup Wagon, the groundbreaking 2021 masterpiece that swept most major jazz polls, the saxophonist does the same for the pioneering gospel-music force of nature Mahalia Jackson. But this time it’s personal, because Lewis lived her music growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., playing there in churches as a youth and being nurtured by his grandmother, who had received Mahalia’s singing like a bolt from above. Performing this music for the first time since the release of the album at Joe's Pub will be
Thomas Morgan - Bass
Tomeka Reid - Cello
Chad Taylor - Drums
Kirk Knuffke - Cornet

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James Brandon Lewis Photo Credit: Ben Pier


ETHEL & Robert Mirabal
In this unique expression of thirteen years of friendship and collaboration, GRAMMY® Award-winning, master musician, actor, artist and storyteller, Robert Mirabal, elder of the Taos Pueblo, and GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-defying, New York-based string quartet, ETHEL, come together gratefully to, yet again, reimagine the concert experience. Their art is a vigorous blend of joy, compassion, and vital virtuosity. Building on their previous programs, Music of the Sun, The River, and Song for Taos, but more specifically addressing the challenges of the post-pandemic world, and in honor of Mirabal’s community, they offer a ceremony full of original music, movement, and wisdom.

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ETHEL Photo Credit: Jade Leyva