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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, 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.



Career
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
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

HARRIET TUBMAN BAND

 * The Terror End Of Beauty , Sunnyside Records, 2019


 * Araminta, Sunnyside Records, 2017


 * Ascension , Sunnyside Records, 2011


 * Prototype, Avant, 2000


 * I am a man, Slave no mo'/ Knitting Factory Records, 1998

SOCIALYBRIUM

 * For you, For Us, For All (Livewired Music, 2010)

With Carl Anderson

 * Absence without love/ On & On, Expansion Records, 2009

With Dennis Angel


 * On track, (1987), Re-released by Self Produced, 2015

With Marc Anthony/Little Louie Vega

 * When the night is over, Atlantic, 1991

With Roy Ayers

 * Evolution, the Polydor Anthology, 1995


 * You send me, Polydor, 1978

With Storms Bassman

 * Aum, The Indica Project, Label Unknown, 2023

With Rubén Blades

 * Nothing but the truth, Elektra/Rhino, 1988

With Jonathan Butler

 * Introducing Jonathan Butler, Jive, 1986

With Jeff Conaway

 * Jeff Conaway, Columbia, 1979

With Carole Davis

 * I am no angel, Atlantic, 1993

With Darius de Haas

 * Day Dream – Variations on Strayhorn, PS Classics, 2002

With Will Downing

 * A dream fulfilled, Island Records, 1991
 * Come Together As One, Island Records, 1989

With Marianne Faithfull

 * A perfect Stranger – The Island Anthology, Island Records, 1998
 * Strange Weather, Island Records, 1987

With Alex Foster


 * Beginnings: Goodbye, Big World (Continental), 1991

With Curtis Fowlkes, Catfish Corner

 * Reflect, Knitting Factory Records, 1999

With Danny Gatton

 * Cruisin' Deuces, Elektra, 1993

With Melvin Gibbs's Elevated Entity

 * Ancients Speak, Livewired, 2009

With Godchildren Of Soul

 * Anyone Can Join, Rhino, 1994

With Paul Haines

 * Darn It!, American Clavé,1994
 * Poems By Paul Hines, Musics By Many, 1994

With Kip Hanrahan

 * 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

 * The Very Best of Howard Hewett, Elektra/Rhino, 2001
 * Howard Hewett, Elektra, 1990

With Lena Horn

 * Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen, Sony, 2002
 * The Men In My Life, Three Cherries Records,1988

With Whitney Houston

 * The Collection, Sony Music/Arista, 2009
 * Whitney Houston, Arista, 1985

With Garland Jeffreys

 * Don't call me Buckwheat, RCA Records, 1992

With Don Johnson

 * Heartbeat, Epic, 1986

With Glenn Jones

 * Finesse, RCA, 1984

With Stanley Jordan

 * Live in New York, Blue Note, 1998
 * The Best of Stanley Jordan, Blue Note, 1995

With Bill Laswell and Material
With Material
 * Bill Laswell and Material, Golden Stars, 2006


 * One Down, Celluloid, Elektra 1983

With Ullanda McCullough

 * Watching You Watching Me, Atlantic, 2014

With Jean-Louis Murat

 * Mustango, Emi Music Distribution, 1999

With David Murray
With Shunzo Ohno
 * Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen, DIW Records, 1999
 * Shakill's II, DIW Records, 1994


 * Antares, Electric Bird, 1980

With William Parker

 * For those who are, still, Centering Music (BMI), 2015

With Teddy Pendergrass

 * Joy, Elektra Records, 1988

==== With Don Pullen ====


 * The Best of Don Pullen, Blue Note, 1998
 * Sacred Common Grounds, Blue Note, 1994

With Don Pullen & The African-Brazilian Connection

 * Live again... Live at Montreaux, Blue Note, 1995

With Kevin Raleigh

 * Delusions of Grandeur, Atlantic, 1990

With Lou Reed

 * The RCA and Arista Album Collection, RCA/ARISTA 2016
 * Mistrial, RCS/Ariola International, 1986

With Jay Rodriguez

 * Your sound, Whaling City Sound, 2018

With Josh Roseman Unit
With Brandon Ross
 * Treats of the Nightwalker, Enja / Justin Time, 2003


 * Puppet, Intoxicate, 2006
 * Costume, Intoxicate, 2004

With Fernando Saunders
With Serah
 * The Spin,  A&M, 1993
 * Cashmere Dreams, Grudge Records, 1989


 * Out of the Wind, Great Northern Arts, Ltd., 1994

With Socialybrium

 * For You- For US- For All, Livewired Music, 2010

With Special Delivery

 * One, Keytone Records, 1983

With Special EFX

 * Special EFX Collection, GRP, 1993
 * GPR Digital Sampler, Vol. 2, GRP, 1990
 * GPR Digital Sampler, Vol. 1, GRP, 1984

With Clive Stevens

 * Language of Secret Hearts, EFA Records/Electric Planet, 1992

With Donna Summer

 * Donna: The CD Collection, Driven By The Music, 2014
 * The Donna Summer Anthology, Polygram, 1993
 * Mistaken Identity, Atlantic Records, 1991

With Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

 * Chronicles Bluesymentales, Sony Music Enterteinment 1995

With Henry Threadgill & Make A Move

 * Where's your cup?, Columbia, 1997

With Teri Thornton

 * I'll Be Easy To Find, Verve/Polygram, 1999

With Tina Turner

 * 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

 * Aquarela Do Brasil, Arista, 2011
 * Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter, Arista, 1990

With Susan Werner

 * Last of the Good Straight Girls, Private Music/BMG, 1995

With Vanessa Williams

 * Everlasting Love, Lava, 2005
 * Silver and Gold, YMC Universal, 2004

With Reuben Wilson

 * Azure Te,, 18th and Vine, 2009