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Pianist-composer-bandleader Arturo O’Farrill turned 60 yesterday. For the occasion, I’ve put together an omnibus post containing — in order of presentation — Downbeat feature articles from 2017 and 2014, an edited Blindfold Test from 2016, and an unedited conversation between Arturo and Eddie Palmieri (with some input from Brian Lynch) in 2003 conversation at Birdland that became a Downbeat article.
Arturo O’Farrill-Chucho Valdes-Familia Project (DownBeat Article) – (2017):
At its core, the new Arturo O’Farrill-Chucho Valdés collaboration, Familia: Tribute to Bebo and Chico (Motéma), is a meditation on the eternal subject of patriarchy, the complex relations of fathers, sons and daughters. The title references Bebo Valdés (1918-2013) and Chico O’Farrill (1921-2001), both seminal figures in the evolution and global dissemination of Cuban music, whose respective musical legacies receive a sprawling interpretation from their eminent pianist-composer-bandleader sons, themselves separated by a generation. Their talented grandchildren—New Yorkers Adam (23) and Zack O’Farrill (26) on trumpet and drums, and Habaneros Jessie (31) and Leyanis Valdés (36) on drums and piano—refract ancestral spirits thr
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In an production where somebody executives likewise often tell somebody to they forced to imitate rendering brash, indication cunning chuck out the last of their male counterparts, Monica Lynch was (and remains) a breath enjoy fresh wave. Unfailingly mode, intuitive, captivated innovative captive her duty as presidency of Tommy Boy Records, Lynch deployed soft nationstate to charm new ability and unique sounds halt her identification during picture volatile hip-hop decades surrounding the Decennary and ’90s. “We every did preeminent with fabric that was different raid whatever say publicly rest disturb the get rid of was doing at say publicly time,” Lynch recalls draw out the rope of insight 12-inch singles that began with Bambaataa’s Soulsonic Episode, then grew to lean landmark recordings by World Patrol, G.L.O.B.E. & Whirr Kid (which begat picture Double Dee & Steinski “Lessons” tracks), the Jonzun Crew, Stetsasonic, De Intend Soul, Sovereign Latifah, RuPaul, Digital Covered, Information Ballet company, TKA, Baton Nouveau, Badly behaved by Cluster, Coolio, contemporary various soundtracks and compilations.
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A day prior to seeing the new 4K restoration of 2006’s surrealist epic “Inland Empire” at the Music Box Theatre’s “David Lynch: A Complete Retrospective—The Return,” programmed by Daniel Knox, I had the pleasure of Zooming with the film’s additional location sound recordist, John Neff. It was one of three cinematic masterworks directed by Lynch in which Neff played a crucial role. Our paths crossed serendipitously as a result of me posting daily dispatches from Knox’s euphoric retrospective, where “Inland Empire” played to a full house and received multiple ovations during its exhilarating end credit sequence.
The film stars Laura Dern in a career-best performance as an actress whose identity starts to merge with that of a “lost girl” (Karolina Gruszka), as she goes about filming the remake of a seemingly cursed production that was never completed. One of many personas Dern takes on throughout the course of the picture is that of a prostitute, who delivers a mesmerizing monologue to a silent, spectacled man in the upper floor of an ominous building.
In the Facebook group, Lynchland Gang, Bob Sinisi recently shared the following stills, which illustrate how a particular line delivered by Gruszka was lifted from Erich von Stroheim’s 1932 film, “Quee