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Rudresh Mahanthappa with Adam O’Farrill, Matt Mitchell, François Moutin, Rudy Royston – Bird Calls (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:58 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Inspired by his love of the music of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, Rudresh Mahanthappa pays homage to the late bebop innovator on 2015’s Bird Calls. It was purportedly while breaking down Parker’s performance on “Donna Lee” to help a student learn the infamously difficult song that saxophonist Mahanthappa came up with the concept of a different way to interpret Parker’s music. Taken in small, easily digestible bites, Mahanthappa began to hear Parker’s architectural bop motifs less as swinging, blues-based jazz and more as modern classical or even avant-garde music. Combining his own creative approach to jazz with Indian raga, funk, post-bop, and other eclectic stylistic elements, Mahanthappa wrote pieces loosely based on Parker’s songs or parts of solos. For example, “Both Hands” reworks Parker’s “Dexterity” into a roiling, machine-gun stream of sound, and “Talin Is Thinking” turns Parker’s classic bluesy ballad “Parker’s Mood” into a frenetic spiritual jazz workout. Furthermore, just as Parker was often backed by a quintet featuring a trumpeter like the great Dizzy Gillespie, Mahanthappa takes the same approach, bringing with him 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition third-place winner Adam O’Farrill along with pianist Matt Mitchell, bassist François Moutin, and drummer Rudy Royston. Only 20 years old at the time of recording, O’Farrill (the son of pianist Arturo O’Farrill and the grandson of legendary Cuban percussionist, and Parker associate, Chico O’Farrill) is an immensely gifted trumpeter with a robust, rounded tone and lithe improvisational style. Joining with the other members of Mahanthappa’s quintet, he brings an intensity and buoyant creativity to Bird Calls that effectively updates the classic Parker/Gillespie partnership. For his end, Mahanthappa, a brilliantly capable improviser blessed with a fluid, harmonically engaging approach to jazz, blazes his way through these songs, which are at once accessible yet boundlessly inventive. Ultimately, with Bird Calls, Mahanthappa has crafted an exuberant, expressive album that’s as fresh and surprising as the music Parker originally recorded. ~ Matt Collar
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Adam O’Farrill – Visions of Your Other (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:59 minutes | 415 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Biophilia Records
“Visions Of Your Other” is the third album by Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days, one that takes the band back to its roots in original compositions after their Mexican folk music-inspired release, El Maquech. Adam and two of his bandmates, Walter Stinson on bass and Zack O’Farrill on drums, return along with the arrival of Xavier Del Castillo on tenor saxophone.
The album takes its title from a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s post-WWII psychological portrait, “The Master”, in which the main character, a veteran suffering PTSD, is interrogated about supposed visions he had of his mother.
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Adam O’Farrill – Stranger Days (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:34 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Though he has only been at it for a short time, Adam O’Farrill has displayed maturity in his music beyond his 21 years. The young trumpeter/composer was introduced to the music world early on and quickly ascertained the importance of history, hard work and collaboration to realize his voice as an artist. On his debut recording as a leader, Stranger Days, O’Farrill introduces his fantastic and highly interactive quartet of the same name, showcasing distinctive and subtly programmatic original pieces.
The Brooklyn born and raised O’Farrill comes from a celebrated musical lineage: his grandfather, the Cuban composer/arranger Chico O’Farrill; his father, pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill; and his mother Alison Deane, a classical pianist. Growing up in a musically rich environment, his parents showing him everything from Oscar Peterson to Steely Dan to Olivier Messiaen, it was only natural that he fell into it, first with piano lessons and then to the trumpet when he was 8 years old.
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