Feldman Geospatial will present THE FELIPE SALLES QUARTET on Thursday, November 5 at Boston’s jazzy brewery and taproom, Long Live Roxbury.

The show at Long Live Roxbury begins after 6:00 pm and will run until approximately 9:00 pm. Located at 152 Hampden Street in Roxbury, the fun-filled brewery and taproom offers free admission and free parking, either in the adjacent lot or on George Street. Get there early for the best seats!

For more information, call 617.334.5633 during Taproom hours or email bostonevents@longlivebeerworks.com. Taproom hours: 3 pm – 9 pm Monday – Thursday; 1 pm – 10 pm Friday; 12 pm – 10 pm Saturday and 12 pm – 6 pm Sunday.

THE FELIPE SALLES QUARTET
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Felipe Salles, saxes and flute
Nando Michelin, piano
Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass
Bertram Lehmann, drums

A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Felipe Salles has been an active musician in the U.S. since 1995, where he has worked and recorded with prominent jazz artists, including Randy Brecker, Paquito D’Rivera, David Liebman, Melissa Aldana, Lionel Loueke, Jerry Bergonzi, Chico Pinheiro, Magos Herrera, Sofia Rei, Yosvany Terry, Jovino Santos Neto, Oscar Stagnaro, Luciana Souza, and Bob Moses. He has toured extensively in Europe, North and South America, India, and Australia, as a sideman and as a leader of his own group.

Salles is a 2018 Guggenheim Foundation Composition Fellow, a 2021 South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant Fellowship recipient, a 2015 and 2023 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant winner, a 2009-2010 winner of the French American Jazz Exchange Grant, and a 2005-2006 winner of the Chamber Music America New Works: Creation and Presentation Grant Program, grants sponsored by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He was awarded First Place in the 2001 Concurso SGAE de Jazz “TETE MONTOLIU”, 2001, for his composition “The Return of The Chromo Sapiens.”

His arrangements and compositions have been performed by some of the top groups in the world including The Metropole Orchestra, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Amazonas Band, Helsinki Philharmonic Violas, Meta4 String Quartet, Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra, New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra, and New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, among others.

Salles has released ten critically acclaimed recordings as a leader. Departure (Tapestry, 2012) received 4-stars from Downbeat Magazine and a place on their best albums of the year list in 2013. They noted that Salles is adept at “crafting pieces that juggle intriguing complexity with buoyant rhythms and lush colors.” JazzTimes Magazine noted that “Felipe Salles blends the visceral and the cerebral on his fascinating fifth album, infusing classical modernist strains with the buoyant rhythms of his Brazilian homeland.” Ugandan Suite (Tapestry, 2014) also earned a place on Downbeat Magazine’s best albums of the year list in 2014 and was praised by jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke: “This is one of the best progressive works I have heard in a long time. What a great blend of classical, African, and jazz music.” Varanda (Tapestry, 2016) with the Brazilian jazz collective titled The Reunion Project, also earned critical acclaim including 4.5 stars in Downbeat Magazine.

The Lullaby Project and Other Works for Large Jazz Ensemble (Tapestry, 2018) is Salles’ first large jazz ensemble recording, and was composed for and recorded by his own Interconnections Ensemble, to critical acclaim (Downbeat Magazine’s best albums of the year list in 2019). His second large ensemble recording, the ambitious The New Immigrant Experience (Tapestry, 2020), was released as a CD/DVD set, to critical acclaim, including 4.5 stars review from Downbeat Magazine, making the magazine’s list of best albums of 2020. He has recently released a quartet album, Tiyo’s Songs of Life (Tapestry, 2022), featuring Avery Sharpe, Zaccai Curtis and Jonathan Barber. His third large ensemble recording, Home is Here (Tapestry, 2023) to critical acclaim, including 4.5 stars review from Downbeat Magazine. Continuing Salles’ musical explorations of immigration and its challenges, Home is Here features an array of guest artists who are also immigrants: legendary saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera (Cuba); vocalist Sofia Rei (Argentina); saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupe); flugelhornist Nadje Noordhuis (Australia); vocalist Magos Herrera (Mexico); saxophonist/percussionist Yosvany Terry (Cuba); guitarist Chico Pinheiro (Brazil); and saxophonist Melissa Aldana (Chile).

Also in the Feldman Geospatial series at Long Live Roxbury:

YARINA — SONGS OF THE EARTH
Indigenous Andean Music
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Roberto Cachimuel, violin & vocals
Zak Icaza, drums
Ruminahui Cachimuel, bass
Curi Cachimuel, flutes
Tupac Cachimuel, bandolin
Sumay Cachimuel, keyboards & percussion
Yuyari Cachimuel, guitar, flutes

Roberto Cachimuel is one of the founding members of Yarina, a family of musicians from Otavalo, Ecuador, that has received wide acclaim in their home country and abroad. Yarina, meaning “remembrance” in Cachimuel’s native language, Quichua, was formed in 1984 to promote native arts and culture during the formative years of Ecuador’s burgeoning indigenous political and cultural rights movement. Today, Yarina’s captivating rhythms are heard on many of Ecuador’s mainstream radio stations and online at NativeRadio.com. Their songs incorporate jazz, blues, Latin, and Western classical elements into traditional Otavalan beats that are performed on violin, charango, bandolin, guitar, bass, panpipes, bombo, chacchas, and other traditional instruments. Yarina has become a regular feature at major events of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.; they played during the grand opening and at the museum’s first anniversary. Yarina achieved wide recognition for their album Nawi, which won the 2005 Native American Music Award for Best World Music and the 2005 Indian Summer Music Award in the folk category. Based in Somerville, Massachusetts, Yarina has been performing at Cultural Survival bazaars for several years.

About Long Live Roxbury: Long Live Roxbury is one of Boston’s newest breweries, a taproom and brewery focused on creating hop-forward beers, playful stouts and sours, while still celebrating classic styles, all brewed on-premise at 152 Hampden Street in Boston, just minutes from downtown with private off-street parking. Feldman Geospatial houses its offices on the two floors above the brewery and hosts and presents these shows weekly. Feldman Geospatial has created a superb ‘critic’s choice’ jazz and Latin music series at Long Live Roxbury, and all of it is free of charge.

“It has always been my dream to bring high quality jazz and world music to our building in Roxbury, and by making it free to all we are hoping to continue to create a community space for food, drinks, arts and culture for everyone to enjoy,” said Michael Feldman, Chief Executive Officer of Feldman Geospatial.

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