Josh Johnson changes lanes with the élan of a casino dealer shuffling cards. A saxophonist and a synthesist mentored by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, Johnson’s pop candy associations include Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus; he also spent four years as musical director for Leon Bridges. His lead production credits are spangled with such idiosyncratic gems as Flea’s Honora and Meshell Ndegocello’s Grammy-winning The Omnichord Real Book. He’s currently blowing his horns and concocting conceptual loops and effects as a working member in a variety of versatile, cutting-edge ensembles in both L.A. and Chicago.
Animative, Johnson’s third album after his 2020 debut and his purely solo record Unusual Object in 2024, is, like his career, a stylistically…

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