This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Doug Adair matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Doug Adair.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Doug Adair (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Doug Adair's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Yes! I recommend these artists!
Who & Where
- Name: Doug Adair
- City/Place: Salvador, Bahia
- Country: Brazil
- Hometown: Morton, Illinois, USA
Current News
- What's Up? .These days I am splitting my time between Arlington, VA (up the hill from the Iwo Jima Memorial) and Salvador. I'm currently in Arlington and will head down to Salvador in February. I'm still 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 (Burl and his wife Dorothy asked me to do this way back in 1975 when we we're together at WIU). The focus of the show is 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 are quite similar to the US) but we're now in the process of making plans for some performances and video production for Brazilian Public TV in the Washington DC Region later this year. 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 OAS, Burl was never able to make the trip to Brazil due to poor health so our show features 75-year old "Tio / Uncle Burl" and showcases unknown and known performers from the State of Bahia, both from urban and rural environments. We're also using the platform of "Tio / Uncle Burl" www.uncleburl.com 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 hard to find non-profits in Brazil that can meet standards for transparency and reliability. I've had some projects rejected by the Inter-American Development Bank and other funding sources in Brazil because the proposed recipient orgs couldn't pass the litmus test for reliably receiving and administering funds. We're working 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.
Contact Information
- Email: douglaseadair@gmail.com
- Telephone: +17039326667
- Whatsapp: +17039326667
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Address:
6066 LEESBURG PIKE
SUITE 200-B
Falls Church, VA, USA 22041
Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://www.uncleburl.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://www.orsbrasil.com
- ▶ Website 3: http://www.broadjam.com/DougAdair
- ▶ Website 4: http://www.youtube.com/user/DougAdair
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DougAdair
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC2VZH-3haHJiniVA3ULLv9A
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4DYSJ06qEncuPgN0cJ4dnc
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0KuwLPZEh6jGcgrdwQ6ARu
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
