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Eric Smith

Old Home/New Home

By Brian Martin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Old Home; Somewhere to Go; A Ballad for Myself; Lookin' Forward; I Hear a Rhapsody; A.E.C.S.; Letters for Tom; New Home.

The Brian Martin Big Band: Old Home/New Home

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 New Immigrant Experience

By Felipe Salles

Label: Tapestry Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1: Introduction; Did You Eat?; Their Stories Have Never Been Told; An Education to Begin With; A Part and Not the Other; Survivor’s Guilt. CD2: It’s Just Lines on the Ground; Built on Thin Air; Crossing Barriers; These Things That Are Taken for Granted; Coda.

Did You Eat?

October 11, 2020

Album: The New Immigrant Experience
By Felipe Salles
Label: Tapestry Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 7:32

Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The New Immigrant Experience

by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2020

Is it mere coincidence, or does the rise in the number of “concept" albums by jazz big bands signal that the trend is here to stay? Trumpeter Brian Lynch won a 2020 Grammy Award for his Journey Through Literature in Music, and there have been other tenet-based enterprises within the past year by Dan Jonas, John ...

Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The Lullaby Project

by Jack Bowers
November 22, 2018

The five profound and picturesque lullabies on Brazilian-born, Massachusetts-based composer-arranger Felipe Salles' new CD, The Lullaby Project, are followed by three tango-inspired themes whose texture mirrors the bright and rhythmic musical landscape of his native country and southern neighbor Argentina. Salles' concepts are brought vividly to life by the nineteen-piece Interconnections Ensemble which has no trouble ...