CURATION
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from this page:
by Title Holder
Network Node
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Name:
Doug Adair
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Morton, Illinois, USA
Current News
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What's Up?
These days I am splitting my time between the Washington, DC Region (in Arlington, VA, just up the hill from the Iwo Jima Memorial) and Salvador. I'm busy writing songs and making shows while also providing business and non-profit consulting services in Brazil and the US. I've developed a show about Burl Ives called Me & Uncle Burl. Way back in 1975 when we were together at Western Illinois University (WIU), Burl and his wife Dorothy asked me to do this, sometime in the future after both had passed on, as a way of honoring and preserving Burl's legacy. Me & Uncle Burl is focused on promoting the importance of music and cultural education, and the songs in the show are about kindness, unity, humility, responsibility, integrity, diversity, and democracy. To this point in time, we've been presenting the show in Brazil (where levels of polarization and disenfranchisement resemble those in the US) and we're now in the process of making plans for performances and video production in the Washington DC Region. Burl was scheduled to go to Brazil in 1985 to present a show called the "Imagination Celebration" which featured young and deserving talent in each of communities / regions the show visited. Sponsored by the Kennedy Center and the Organization of American States (OAS), Burl never made the trip to Brazil due to poor health and advancing age. Me & Uncle Burl features "Uncle Burl / Tio Burl in Portuguese" at 75-years of age and showcases unknown and known performers from the State of Bahia, Brazil, from both urban and rural environments. The platform created by "Uncle / Tio Burl" (www.uncleburl.com) is also be used to establish Brazil's first Community Foundation in the State of Bahia (80% of Bahia's population is of African descent and wide scale poverty continues to be an obstacle to success and sustainability). Unfortunately, there's a sad history of corruption and it's difficult to find non-profits in Brazil that meet international standards for transparency and reliability. Over the years, we've had some projects rejected by the Inter-American Development Bank and other funding sources in Brazil because the proposed recipient organizations couldn't pass the litmus test for reliably receiving and administering funds. The longterm goal is to create a "model" Community Foundation in Bahia which can be replicated across Brazil and Latin America.
Life & Work
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Bio:
Doug Adair has carried real American music even further south than its origins, to the great cradle of another nation's musical origins: Bahia, Brazil.
Doug is proprietor of the legendary music spot Hot Dougie's Rendezvous in Salvador, Bahia and a sócio of ORS Multimídia Interativa.
Contact Information
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Email:
[email protected]
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Contact by Webpage:
http://www.uncleburl.com
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Telephone:
+17039326667
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Whatsapp:
+17039326667
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Address:
6066 LEESBURG PIKE
SUITE 200-B
Falls Church, VA, USA 22041
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Management/Booking:
ORS Interactive, Inc.
www.orsinteractive.com
Clips (more may be added)
The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
The mathematics of the small world phenomenon transforming the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all.
Tap the grey crosses next to the categories on somebody's Matrix Page to recommend that person for that category.
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You and the person you are recommending will be pulled by mathematical gravity to within DISCOVERABLE distance of EVERYBODY INSIDE the Matrix.
In a small world great things are possible.
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
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 founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
This list is random, and incomplete. Reload the page for another list.
Ex Terra Brasilis
Wolfram MathWorld
UNIVERSAL
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Luciano Calazans
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
Sparrow/Pardal Roberts
RÁDIO MATRIX