Find Your Own Voice: James Brandon Lewis // Abiodun Oyweyole and Taylor Pace // Oliver Lake and Josh Werner // Tuesday Taylor and Melanie Dyer
About This Event
At Roulette the lineup includes James Brandon Lewis; Abiodun Oyewole with Taylor Pace; Oliver Lake with Josh Werner; and Tuesday Taylor with Melanie Dyer. Lewis’s balance of written structure and open improvisation, Lake’s decades in avant‑jazz and the World Saxophone Quartet, Oyewole’s Last Poets lineage, and Werner’s movement between free music and ambient jazz foreground intersections of composed ensemble writing, spoken word, and textural improvisation.
About the Artists
James Brandon Lewis
James Brandon Lewis is an American jazz saxophonist and composer whose work balances written structure with open improvisation. In New York City he is heard at the Village Vanguard, where he leads the James Brandon Lewis Quartet in repertory that highlights his arranging and ensemble direction.
Abiodun Oyewole
ABIODUN OYEWOLE is a poet, author, teacher, and a founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets,
Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake Wilderness Lodge Great Canadian fishing, exciting fly-fishing, big game hunting and outdoor adventures in the Saskatchewan wilderness.
Josh Werner
Josh Werner is a New York City–based musician working in the overlap of free music and ambient jazz. A regular presence at Cassette, he appears on bills that move between improvised electronics and late-night set culture, including Ridgewood Rendezvous Drag Show.