The first American black scientist George Carver was still born into slavery. After the American Civil War, his former owner adopted him as a son who, despite much opposition from the academic world, developed into an agricultural chemist, botanist, inventor, artist and activist. With his Jesup Wagon he built a mobile academy that he used to visit the poor farmers to teach them. The American jazz
… saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has admired Carver since his youth and on Jesup Wagon he now honors this shining example for every black American. His eclectic preferences from earlier albums brought Lewis back to what he himself calls folk and what sounds like bluesy free jazz with echoes of Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. With the crème de la crème of the New York avant-garde, Lewis loses himself in fierce rubato rhythms, solemn marches and collective outbursts. An intense whole, full of love for his hero. (MR)more
