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Felipe Salles: The New Immigrant Experience
Originario di San Paolo (Brasile), residente negli Stati Uniti dal 1995 Felipe Salles insegna Jazz and African-American Music Studies presso l'Università del Massachusetts Amherst, è giunto al suo ottavo disco da leader e ha collaborato con Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Lionel Loueke, Jerry Bergonzi, Ra Kalam Bob Moses e altri jazzmen di primo piano.
A differenza di altri album con ampi organici (usati talvolta come sfondo per solisti di grido) qui la scrittura orchestrale è piena protagonista negli undici movimenti della suite. Non mancano ovviamente interventi individuali ma sono sempre funzionali a percorsi molto articolati sul versante ritmico e metrico, con svolte, improvvise aperture e fondali timbricamente cangianti.
Salles ha sviluppato una personale prospettiva orchestrale, insistendo su parti dilatate che si alternano ad altre particolarmente dinamiche o serrate per formare un variopinto caleidoscopio dove echi di Brasile si coniugano a momenti swinganti o raffinate soluzioni impressioniste.
Un'opera sontuosa, frutto di una ricercata concezione orchestrale che merita un ascolto attento.
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.
Personnel
Felipe Salles
saxophone, tenorJeff Holmes
trumpetDon Clough
trumpetYuta Yamaguchi
trumpetEric Smith
trumpetDoug Olsen
trumpetJonathan Ball
saxophoneaaron dutton
saxophoneMike Caudill
saxophoneRick DiMuzio
saxophone, tenorTyler Burchfield
saxophoneClayton DeWalt
tromboneRandy Pingrey
tromboneBulut Gulen
tromboneKevin Grudecki
guitarRyan Fedak
vibraphoneKeala Kaumeheiwa
bass, acousticBertram Lehmann
percussionAlbum information
Title: The New Immigrant Experience | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: Tapestry Records
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