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The Brian Martin Big Band: Old Home/New Home
by Jack Bowers
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 ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles, John Sturino, Hillai Govreen, Isaiah J. Thompson, Mani Padme Trio
by Ludovico Granvassu
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 ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles: Camera Obscura
by Katchie Cartwright
"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 ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles: Camera Obscura
by Alberto Bazzurro
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 ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles: Home Is Here
by Angelo Leonardi
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 ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Felipe Salles, Robin Nitram, Rudy Royston And More
by Bob Osborne
Featured on this week's show are new releases from Felipe Salles, Robin Nitram, Rudy Royston, Duncan Hopkins, Soft Machine, Mark Dresser, Xavier Charles & Eric Normand, Michael Formanek, Marc Ducret, and Pat Thomas with Chris Sharkey & Luke Reddin-Williams.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Robin Nitram “African Birds" from Sugar Free (Ramble Records) 00:47 Rudy Royston “A.M. Hours" from Day (Greenleaf) 05:27 Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble “Re-Invention (feat. Paquito D'Rivera)" from Home Is Here (Tapestry Records) 10:04 Duncan Hopkins “St. ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: Home is Here
by Troy Dostert
For the third recording from his Interconnections Ensemble, tenor saxophonist and composer Felipe Salles chose to put the artists first--literally. That is, he had extensive conversations with each of the guest musicians on the record before composing the pieces on which each would be featured, thus highlighting their own stylistic and personal characteristics. The result is a polychromatic, adventurous album that allows Salles' multidimensionality as a composer to flourish. And with top-shelf guests such as Melissa Aldana, Paquito D'Rivera, and ...
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