Excerpt - “ The music is filled with the inspired, soaring spirit of early free jazz like Ornette Coleman or Archie Shepp, but its channeled through an awareness of the power of punk and metal (Pirog is a ferocious guitarist who also plays in the Messthetics, a trio with Fugazi’s rhythm section). “Haden Is Beauty,” a salute to bassist Charlie Haden, is an updating of Ornette’s and Albert Ayler’s ideas, in a way that only this combination of players could conceive.”
Continue reading - https://www.stereogum.com/2033157/ugly-beauty-the-month-in-jazz-february-2019/franchises/ugly-beauty/
Album - https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/album/an-unruly-manifesto
New Album features Jaimie Branch- Trumpet, Anthony Pirog - Guitar, Luke Stewart - Bass Warren Trae Crudup III - Drums and Tenor Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis