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Felipe 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 ...
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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 ReadingDan Moretti and Brazilia: Live at the Pump House/Celebrating Wayne Shorter
by Jack Bowers
While everyone has ideas, some ideas are admittedly better than others. Saxophonist Dan Moretti and Brazilia's notion to salute the music of Wayne Shorter by reshaping and Latinizing eight of the legendary saxophonist's splendid compositions was a good idea. Doubters need only survey the finished product, recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience in December 2024 at The Pump House Music Works in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Shorter's unique and engaging melodies, several of which are now enshrined ...
Continue ReadingAnishana: Corners of the Sky
by Jack Bowers
What a pleasant surprise. When a group named Anishana records an album built around Native American themes and concepts, the inclination is to withhold judgment while preparing for the worst. Yes, Anishana is an Algonquin-derived term meaning “where do you come from?" And yes, Anishana loosely bases the music in Corners of the Sky on Native American customs and beliefs. The good news is that those indigenous Americans evidently had jazz chops no one suspected and swung like plumage in ...
Continue ReadingSteve Langone Group: Finders Keepers
by Dan McClenaghan
Out of that seemingly unlikely hotbed of jazz, New Bedford, Mass., from Whaling City Sounds, comes another sharp-edged, straight ahead outing: Finders Keepers from The Steve Langone Group. Whaling City Sounds has given us Dan Moretti's fine trio outing, Once Through) ; and Don Govoni's Breaking Out , a very solid sax-in-front-of rhythm set; and now drummer Steve Langone gets his chance to strut his musical stuff in his debut as a leader.The group sports a ...
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