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 Garvia Bailey 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 Garvia Bailey.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Garvia Bailey (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Garvia Bailey's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Garvia Bailey
- City/Place: Toronto
- Country: Canada
- Hometown: Rural Jamaica
Life & Work
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Bio:
I believe in the power of stories, and my passion has always been in helping others share theirs.
I am a co-founder of the Jazzcast.ca, a scrappy, smart, community driven platform for jazz enthusiasts and those who like to dig into the stories of the colourful musicians who inhabit that world.
Before founding jazzcast I was host of Good Morning, Toronto on JazzFM.91. Prior to that, I spent 10 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an arts journalist/producer, and broadcaster.
My career in media began when I was hired as a producer and writer for a groundbreaking startup media company called Channel Zero, making independent documentaries from around the world. While with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I served as the host of a variety of radio programs, including Big City Small World and Canada Live, as a columnist for Metro Morning and as a contributor at cbcmusic.ca, CBC Television, as well as a producer on the documentary programs Global Village and Outfront.
As a freelancer I have contributed to Out In the Open and Tapestry, Sunday Edition among others. I have been tapped as a commentator on CBC’s flagship news program, The National.
Throughout my career in broadcasting I have turned the spotlight on emerging talent from across the GTA and I have also interviewed many celebrated international artists including cultural pundit Roxane Gay, author Lawrence Hill, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, director John Singleton, actor Chris Tucker, jazz icon Tony Bennett, among many others. I am a regular host/moderator for the Toronto Public Library, Hot Docs, TOLive and others. I pride myself on bringing wit, warmth and curiosity to my interviews, qualities that set me apart as an interviewer, broadcaster and onstage host.
I’m pleased to have recently joined the jury pool for the prestigious Canadian Hillman Prize, honouring the best in investigative journalism.
I’m currently working on my own major photo/storytelling exhibit with photographer Justin Morris, an upcoming book-focused podcast with the Toronto Public Library and will curate a Curious Minds Series for Hot Docs for the summer of 2020. I continue to work on various projects with the award winning multi-media production company Pop Sandbox as a writer and producer.
Did I mention that I’m a co-founder and host/producer of jazzcast.ca. It's worth mentioning twice.
Contact Information
- Email: garvia@garviabailey.com
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: garveyschild
- ▶ Website: http://www.garviabailey.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://jazzcast.ca
- ▶ Article: http://nowtoronto.com/music/jazzcast/
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"):
