Jazz Poetry 2025: James Brandon Lewis Quintet ft. Chad Taylor, Doralee Brooks, Huang Xiang - Alphabet City, Northside

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Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis gives audiences a sneak peek of his next project: a suite of songs in tribute to American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Eric Dolphy.

James Brandon Lewis: saxophone; Kirk Knuffke: cornet; Patricia Brennan: vibraphone; Chris Lightcap: bass; Chad Taylor: drums 

This program will feature poetry collaborations with Poet Laureate of Allegheny County (2022–2024) Doralee Brooks and City of Asylum’s first-ever Writer-in-Residence, Huang Xiang, who was the inspiration and original poet for our (now annual) Jazz Poetry Month Festival. In contemporary Chinese literature, Huang Xiang is one of the earliest and most prolific liberal poets and writers in the “underground literature” scene.