{"product_id":"calling_antonin-2","title":"Calling Antonin","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Brandon Lewis and Red Lily’s Calling Antonín is a jazz tribute to Antonín Dvořák, released October 23, 2026, through TAO Forms. Following Jesup Wagon and For Mahalia, With Love, the third Red Lily album brings together Dvořák-inspired compositions, spirituals, and exploratory improvisation across a nine-track, approximately 52-minute CD and digital program. Its defining quality is dialogue: rather than simply translating classical pieces into jazz, Lewis places Dvořák’s melodies alongside the spiritual and folk traditions that resonate with his own musical background. The ensemble expands to a sextet, with Lewis’s tenor saxophone joined by Kirk Knuffke’s cornet, Melanie Dyer’s viola, Tomeka Reid’s cello, Joshua Abrams’s bass, and Chad Taylor’s drums, balancing chamber-like textures with forceful grooves and open improvisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lento” draws on Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12, the “American” quartet, while “Going Home” reworks the Largo theme from the New World Symphony through buoyant rhythm and call-and-response phrasing. Spiritual-based pieces including “Spirit of the Living God” and “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me” deepen that conversation, while “Dilemma of Hearts” moves from string drones and a creeping bass line into turbulent ensemble interplay before returning toward a New World theme. The title track carries material from a Slavonic Dance into driving hard bop, and the closing “O’ Rebicku,” based on a Czech folk song, offers a contrasting, non-improvised ending. Throughout, the strings and horns connect the album’s historical sources to the musicians’ present-tense interaction, treating Dvořák’s music as material for discovery rather than reverent reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":67914348921146,"sku":"40454","price":54.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":67914349052218,"sku":"40453","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-11-06_at_8.11.13_PM.jpg?v=1794014203","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/calling_antonin-2","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}