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J.T. Lewis is an American drummer and composer. He is the co-leader of the afro-futuristic Harriet Tubman Band[1][2], featuring Melvin Gibbs (Bass) and Brandon Ross (Guitars). He has performed and recorded with over 200 artists, appearing in close to 150 music albums, that span multiple musical genres.
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Career
[edit]A native New Yorker, raised in Jamaica Queens, J.T. Lewis studied with Artie Simmons and Michael Carvin, and attended CCNY as a music major. He currently lives in Bedstuy, Brooklyn.
He has performed/recorded with over 200 artists from all genres from the Jazz greats such as Stanley Turrentine, Bobbi Humphrey, Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, Lena Horne, and David Sanborn, to the Pop icons such as Tina Turner, Sting, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Costello, Whitney Houston, Debbie Harry, Garland Jeffreys, and Vanessa Williams, to the Jazz revolutionaries such as Don Pullen, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Sonny Sharrock, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Pete Cosey, Bill Laswell, Kip Hanrahan, Marc Ribot, Bernie Worrell, The Jazz Passengers, Joseph Bowie, Howard Johnson's Gravity, turntablist DJ Logic, and many more.
He is one of the original members of Vernon Reid’s Living Colour and was a touring member of the Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt group in the early ’80, during the downtown period in New York City.
In 1998, together with Melvin Gibbs (bass) and Brandon Ross (guitars), he co-started Harriet Tubman Band, an afro-futuristic musical collective, that has recorded five albums, and has performed live/recorded with cornet player Graham Haynes, turntablists and MCs DJ Logic and Val Jeanty, trumpeters Ron Miles and Wadada Leo Smith, and with Cassandra Wilson/Black Sun Project. The band continues to perform concerts and record, as of 2023.
In 2009, he co-led the band "SociaLybrium", which featured bassist Melvin Gibbs, the late Rock and Roll Hall of Famer keyboard player Bernie Worrell and guitarist and musical director DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, both Parliament-Funkadelic alumni. SociaLybrium’s album, For You/For Us/For All, was released by Livewired Music, in December of 2009.
He has “subbed” for the great Bernard “PRETTY” Purdie on the “GODFATHERS OF GROOVE” tour featuring Grant Green Jr (guitar) and the late Rueben Wilson (Hammond B3)
For the past 27 years he has performed and recorded with singer Vanessa Williams.
PERFORMANCES
[edit]With Sonny Sharrock and Material, and a special appearance by Keith Haring on stage, Live in Montreux, 1982
With Lou Reed at the Ritz, The Last Shot, 7/16/1986
With Sting, Bring on the Night, Live at Tokyo Dome, Japan, October 1988
With Don Pullen and The Afro Brazilian Connection: 1993 San Sebastian, 1993
With Don Pullen (and the Afro Brazilian Connection) Ode To Life An excerpt from Don Pullen interviewed by Ramsey Lewis
With Harriet Tubman Band featuring Cassandra Wilson, Live at BRIC House, March 17, 2014, a video by BK Indie Media
With Harriet Tubman Band, Full Performance (Live on KEXP), January 21, 2020
DISCOGRAPHY
[edit]AS CO-LEADER
[edit]- Araminta[4], Sunnyside Records, 2017
- Prototype, Avant, 2000
- I am a man, Slave no mo'/ Knitting Factory Records, 1998 [6]
- For you, For Us, For All (Livewired Music, 2010)
AS SIDEMAN
[edit]With Carl Anderson
[edit]- Absence without love/ On & On, Expansion Records, 2009
With Dennis Angel
- On track, (1987), Re-released by Self Produced, 2015
- When the night is over, Atlantic, 1991
- Evolution, the Polydor Anthology, 1995
- You send me, Polydor, 1978
With Storms Bassman
[edit]- Aum, The Indica Project, Label Unknown, 2023
With Rubén Blades
[edit]- Nothing but the truth, Elektra/Rhino, 1988
With Jonathan Butler
[edit]- Introducing Jonathan Butler, Jive, 1986
With Jeff Conaway
[edit]- Jeff Conaway, Columbia, 1979
With Carole Davis
[edit]- I am no angel, Atlantic, 1993
With Darius de Haas
[edit]- Day Dream – Variations on Strayhorn, PS Classics, 2002
With Will Downing
[edit]- A dream fulfilled, Island Records, 1991
- Come Together As One, Island Records, 1989
With Marianne Faithfull
[edit]- A perfect Stranger – The Island Anthology, Island Records, 1998
- Strange Weather, Island Records, 1987
With Alex Foster
- Beginnings: Goodbye, Big World (Continental), 1991
- Reflect, Knitting Factory Records, 1999
With Danny Gatton
[edit]- Cruisin' Deuces, Elektra, 1993
- Ancients Speak, Livewired, 2009
With Godchildren Of Soul
[edit]- Anyone Can Join, Rhino, 1994
With Paul Haines
[edit]- Darn It!, American Clavé,1994
- Poems By Paul Hines, Musics By Many, 1994
With Kip Hanrahan
[edit]- Shadow Nights, Vol. 2, Justin Time/ American Clavé/ Pangaea, 1999
- All Roads are Made of The Flesh, American Clavé, 1995
- Exotica, American Clavé, 1992
With Howard Hewett
[edit]- The Very Best of Howard Hewett, Elektra/Rhino, 2001
- Howard Hewett, Elektra, 1990
- Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen, Sony, 2002
- The Men In My Life, Three Cherries Records,1988
With Whitney Houston
[edit]- The Collection, Sony Music/Arista, 2009
- Whitney Houston, Arista, 1985
With Garland Jeffreys
[edit]- Don't call me Buckwheat, RCA Records, 1992
With Don Johnson
[edit]- Heartbeat, Epic, 1986
With Glenn Jones
[edit]- Finesse, RCA, 1984
With Stanley Jordan
[edit]- Live in New York, Blue Note, 1998
- The Best of Stanley Jordan, Blue Note, 1995
With Bill Laswell and Material
[edit]- Bill Laswell and Material, Golden Stars, 2006
With Material
- One Down, Celluloid, Elektra 1983
With Ullanda McCullough
[edit]- Watching You Watching Me, Atlantic, 2014
With Jean-Louis Murat
[edit]- Mustango, Emi Music Distribution, 1999
With David Murray
[edit]- Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen, DIW Records, 1999
- Shakill's II, DIW Records, 1994
With Shunzo Ohno
- Antares, Electric Bird, 1980
With William Parker
[edit]- For those who are, still, Centering Music (BMI), 2015
With Teddy Pendergrass
[edit]- Joy, Elektra Records, 1988
With Don Pullen [7]
[edit]- The Best of Don Pullen, Blue Note, 1998
- Sacred Common Grounds, Blue Note, 1994
- Live again... Live at Montreaux, Blue Note, 1995
With Kevin Raleigh
[edit]- Delusions of Grandeur, Atlantic, 1990
- The RCA and Arista Album Collection, RCA/ARISTA 2016
- Mistrial, RCS/Ariola International, 1986
With Jay Rodriguez
[edit]- Your sound, Whaling City Sound, 2018
With Josh Roseman Unit
[edit]- Treats of the Nightwalker, Enja / Justin Time, 2003
With Brandon Ross
With Fernando Saunders
[edit]- The Spin, A&M, 1993
- Cashmere Dreams, Grudge Records, 1989
With Serah
- Out of the Wind, Great Northern Arts, Ltd., 1994
With Socialybrium
[edit]- For You- For US- For All, Livewired Music, 2010
With Special Delivery
[edit]- One, Keytone Records, 1983
With Special EFX
[edit]- Special EFX Collection, GRP, 1993
- GPR Digital Sampler, Vol. 2, GRP, 1990
- GPR Digital Sampler, Vol. 1, GRP, 1984
With Clive Stevens
[edit]- Language of Secret Hearts, EFA Records/Electric Planet, 1992
With Donna Summer
[edit]- Donna: The CD Collection, Driven By The Music, 2014
- The Donna Summer Anthology, Polygram, 1993
- Mistaken Identity, Atlantic Records, 1991
With Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine
[edit]- Chronicles Bluesymentales, Sony Music Enterteinment 1995
- Where's your cup?, Columbia, 1997
With Teri Thornton
[edit]- I'll Be Easy To Find, Verve/Polygram, 1999
With Tina Turner
[edit]- The Best, 2020, Parlophone Records, 2020
- Love Songs, Parlophone Records, 2014
- Whats' love Got to Do with It/Foreign Affair, EMI Records, 2010
- Tina!, Parlophone, 2008
- All the Best: The Hits, Parlophone, 2005
- Steamy Windows, Capital Records, 1989
- Simply the Best, Capital Records, 1991
- Look me in the Heart, Capital Records, 1989
- Foreign Affair, Capital Records, 1989
With Dionne Warwick
[edit]- Aquarela Do Brasil, Arista, 2011
- Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter, Arista, 1990
With Susan Werner
[edit]- Last of the Good Straight Girls, Private Music/BMG, 1995
With Vanessa Williams
[edit]- Everlasting Love, Lava, 2005
- Silver and Gold, YMC Universal, 2004
With Reuben Wilson
[edit]- Azure Te,, 18th and Vine, 2009
REFERENCES
[edit]- ^ "Harriet Tubman: The Band". Ear Shot Jazz. November 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
- ^ "Harriet Tubman Band". Harriet Tubman. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ Freitas, Filipe (November 19, 2018). ""Harriet Tubman: The Terror End of Beauty"". Jazztrail. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ "harriet tubman: the band / Press". reverbnation.com. 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Milkowski, Bill (April 25, 2019). ""Harriet Tubman: Ascension"". Jazztimes.
- ^ "Harriet Tubman, The Band". "MM Music Agency- Maurice Montoya Music Agency. 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ Goldman, Mitch (May 20, 2013). "2013.05.20 JT LEWIS ON DON PULLEN". Mitch Goldman's radio show: "Let me tell ya a story". Retrieved August 17, 2023.
EXTERNAL LINKS
[edit]OFFICIAL WEBSITE, Harriet Tubman Band
J.T. Lewis at All Music
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