NEW SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS JAMES BRANDON LEWIS KEEPS THE WORLD IN BALANCE
SONNY ROLLINS, now 92, is usually reserved these days. But he told 39-yearold tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, “When I listen to you, I listen to Buddha, I listen to Confucius… I listen to the deeper meaning of life. You are keeping the world in balance.”
Lewis, predictably, was moved. “I feel blessed. He’s one of my heroes,” Lewis says today, battling a loud smoothie-maker in his local New York café. “What else do I need in my life after that? The few times we’ve talked, he never wants to speak about himself, he’s like, ‘I’m interested in what you’re doing’.”