Joe Sanders‘ and Parallels James Brandon Lewis Trio

Since leaving the Midwest for California to attend the Brubeck Institute in 2002, double bassist Joe Sanders has been fortunate to perform and learn alongside some of jazz's greatest figures. And the great ride continued: Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Roy Hargrove, John Clayton, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd or Wayne Shorter. A stunning gallery under just forty years of age. James Brandon Lewis, the son of a preacher, grew up in Buffalo in a de facto gospel church while listening to jazz titans at home thanks to his parents. This not only created a cultural foundation for him, on which he builds to this day, but it also led him to a musical environment at a young age, when he had the opportunity to meet - already as a beginning saxophonist building on the clarinet foundation, which he had been digging since the age of nine - with local artists, such as is free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle and saxophonist Grover Washington Jr.