For those unaware, after 12 albums as a leader, multi-instrumentalist and composer Dr. Brian Landrus has become an internationally recognized low woodwind artist. Landrus specializes on the low woodwind family, specifically: baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet, alto flute, and bass flute. As a composer, Landrus has written for solo instrument to symphony orchestra.

Landrus consistently places in the critics polls of the year in Downbeat Magazine and JazzTimes International Critics Polls. Landrus was awarded “Rising Star” in the 2021 for bass clarinet and 2015 for baritone. Landrus’ 2020 release For Now, was chosen as Editor’s Pick in both Downbeat and JazzTimes. Landrus’ 25-piece orchestral album Generations, was named one of the best recordings of the year by NPR, Downbeat Magazine, JazzTimes, All About Jazz, Jazziz, Boston Globe and many other international publications.

Landrus’ 2020 release, For Now, was released on BlueLand Records on May 15th, 2020, with Red List following it on June 17th, 2022, and now the Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Landrus, “a baritone saxophonist of convincing authority” (New York Times) brings us his new album entitled Just When You Think You Know March 20th, 2026 via Palmetto Records.

1. All In Time
2. Continuance
3. Untold Story
4. One Year
5. Dear Fred
6. Averse
7. El Perro Sigma
8. Beyond
9. Trance
10. From The Night
11. Just When You Think You Know
12. Under Dark
13. Something Special
14. Paroxysm

Still very much recognized as being one of the world’s leading voices on low woodwinds, Landrus opens his new recording on the organically sculpted All In Time and the free flowing musical majesties of Continuance, and then we get given the effortless Untold Story, the happily playful nature of One Year, the late night, smoky jazz club ambiance of the smooth Dear Fred, before we are gifted both the alluring confidence of Averse and the stoically enchanted El Perro Sigma.

Along next is the mid-tempo breeze of Beyond and the flourishing Trance and they are in turn backed by the inquisitively shimmering From The Night, the all-embracing Just When You Think You Know and the affecting beauty of Under Dark, the set rounding out on the drum-led stillness of Something Special, coming to a close on the soft dancefloor swirls and twirls of Paroxysm.

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