During the course of your mission as a music critic you might come across numerous recordings that are really good – even great. But every once...
When you are so perfectly attuned to your ancestry and your culture as Felipe Salles is, then you are halfway to producing the most perfect interpretation...
Listening to Varanda by The Reunion Project, I am struck by how they make of music a living, breathing being, drinking in its heady notes as...
His sixth album, Ugandan Suite (Tapestry), has been described by jazz guitarist extraordinaire Lionel Loueke as follows: “This is one of the best progressive works I...
Few practicing musicians in the Jazz idiom have perfected the composition of a suite in the manner that the great Duke Ellington did in his lifetime....
It might be tempting to compare Felipe Salles’ tone on Departure on tenor saxophone with the depth and warmth of tenor Joe Henderson, but that might...