Mi Padre mi Madre la familia, los músicos de mi pueblo mí barrio, Cuba y toda su gente, Cielito Lindo, Chucho Valdez y el Irakere, Isaac Delgado, Arsenio Rodríguez, Chapotín, Benny More, Miguelito Cuni, Miguelito Valdez, Machito, Mario Bauza,Graciela, Celeste Mendoza, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Maria Teresa Vera, Elena Burke, Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Aragón, Juan Formel y los Van Van, Oscar de León, José Alberto el Canario, Rolando Laserie, NG la Banda, Opus 13,Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodríguez, Trío Matamoros, Sindo Garay, Ñico Saquito, Ignacio Piñeiro, Compay Segundo, Conjunto Casino, Roberto Faz, Barbarito Diez,Tito Gómez, Camaron,Caracol, Enrique Morente, Diego el Cigala,Guadiana, Los Muñequitos de Matanza, Yoruba Andabo, Afrocuba de Matanza, Clave y Guaguancó, Carlos Embale, Tata Guines, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry González , Chano Pozo,Israel López Cachao, Jaco Pastorius, Feliciano Arango,Carlos del Puerto, Tito Puente, Eddy Palmieri, Fania All Star, Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe,Santos Colon, Chico O’farrill,Antonio Carlos Jobim,Ivan Lins,Gal Costa, Elis Regina,Rosa Passos,Caetano Veloso,Ana Belen,Joan Manuel Serrat,Victor Manuel,Fito Páez, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Leo Brouwer, Carlos Fariñas, Joaquín Rodrigo,Paco de Lucia, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzola, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Joseph Haydn, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla,.Granados, Bola de Nieve, Gonzalo Rubalca, Peruchin Pedro Justiz, Frank Emilio,Bebo Valdez,Oscar Peterson,Art Tatum,Glenn Miller, Thelonious Monk,Duke Ellington,George Gershwin,Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis,Jhon Coltrane,Clifford Brown,Freddie Hubbard, Joe Pass,Pat Mehteny, Jimmi Hendrix, BB King, Jhon Scofield,Herbie Hancock,Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea,Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong,Frank Sinatra,Los Beatles Steve Wonder, Ray Charles,Herat Wind & Fire,Kool & The Gang, Sting, Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Queen,Metallica,Phil Collins, En fín, música Oriental, Asiática y Africana, la naturaleza el mundo!
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).