Jazz Articles about Felipe Salles

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Album Review

Jason Robinson: Blue Salience: For Yusef Lateef

Read "Blue Salience: For Yusef Lateef" reviewed by Keith Flint

by Keith Flint
October 18, 2026

From a single note a song takes form. From a single seed a tree grows. Consider Yusef Lateef's own words from “Where Are The Goodies?" Spheres: Stories by Yusef Lateef (Fana Publishing, 1976), “To find out in a hurry whether the roots are where the rich dirt is, look up at the tree and see if the branches are soulful." His writing was as evocative of spirituality and human communication as it was given to compositional foundations and creative ideation. ...

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New England Jazz Collaborative: Tributaries

Read "Tributaries" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 25, 2026

Tributaries is the debut recording by the seventeen-member New England Jazz Collaborative whose origin and purpose are summed up as follows: “an artist-led non-profit collective dedicated to commissioning, presenting and documenting new music and expanding the audience for what remains a thrilling and vital musical form." The album consists of half a dozen fresh compositions by a quartet of talented composers and arrangers: NEJC founder Jeremy Cohen, Matan Rubinstein, Darryl Harper and Sam Spear, with the ensemble ably ...

Album Review

The Brian Martin Big Band: Old Home/New Home

Read "Old Home/New Home" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 23, 2025

Brian Martin, who as a working musician wears many hats--trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and band leader among them--has taken those hats from his native Iowa and given them a new mailing address in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Which is a big deal. Big enough, at least, for Martin to have devoted much of Old Home/New Home, the Brian Martin Big Band's debut recording, to the ins and outs and ups and downs of leaving one's friendly confines to plant new ...

Radio & Podcasts

Felipe Salles, John Sturino, Hillai Govreen, Isaiah J. Thompson, Mani Padme Trio

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 15, 2025

Large ensembles, young talents, modern jazz ministry and a hidden gem from Brazil make up for a very rewarding listen.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Isaiah J. Thompson “VIII. The Prophet" The Book of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry (Mack Avenue) 0:16 Host talks 6:32 Hillai Govreen “Smoke" Every Other Now (Fresh Sound / New Talent) 8:03 Host talks 12:53 John Sturino “PLG (Prophets Lefferts Gardens)" Blow Globe (Outside ...

Album Review

Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura

Read "Camera Obscura" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
July 11, 2025

"I've been wanting to do a project like this for decades," Amherst-based Brazilian composer and multi-reedist Felipe Salles writes of Camera Obscura. The album combines jazz and classical quartets in a program of original music inspired by a phenomenon that has intrigued artists and thinkers worldwide since the Stone Age. A camera obscura is created when light passes through a pinhole into a dark chamber, projecting an upside-down-and-backwards image onto an inside wall. In translating this visual circumstance into a ...

Album Review

Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura

Read "Camera Obscura" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 8, 2025

Parecchi archi, un sostanziale buon gusto che evita per lo più le bucce di banana insite nel contesto specifico e magari un tantino di epidermicità di troppo caratterizzano questo nuovo lavoro del polistrumentista (qui anche in sovraincisioni multiple, specificatamente nel breve “Perception") e compositore paulista-newyorchese Felipe Salles. Gli fa contorno un doppio quartetto, jazzistico (lui compreso) e, appunto, d'archi, che dà al lavoro, certamente ambizioso, una sua anima, un suo peso specifico, posto per più versi sul crinale ...

Album Review

Felipe Salles: Home Is Here

Read "Home Is Here" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 26, 2023

Home Is Here conclude la trilogia del compositore e bandleader brasiliano Felipe Salles (residente dal 1995 negli USA dove insegna all'Università del Massachusetts Amherst) dedicata al tema dell'immigrazione. Un'indagine musicale e multimediale iniziata nel 2018 con The Lullaby Project e proseguita due anni dopo con The New Immigrant Experience, di cui abbiamo già parlato in queste pagine. Qui Salles focalizza il tema dell'immigrazione nel jazz ed ha invitato otto protagonisti della scena di New York ad esibirsi col ...