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20 Year Vietnamese Staple Returns to Dallas

Papaya Kitchen, a long-standing Dallas favorite for authentic Vietnamese cuisine formerly known as Green Papaya, reopens its doors to craft new stories with their classic unforgettable flavors. Behind this exciting venture is Alan Mai, the original owner and industry veteran, … Continue reading

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Chef John Tesar’s Knife Italian Embraces and Elevates Traditional Italian Cuisine

Knife Italian, the latest culinary venture by renowned Executive Chef and Restaurateur, John Tesar, is set to open its doors at the newly transformed The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Building on the success of his other Knife restaurant concepts, Knife Steakhouse … Continue reading

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Sweeney Todd at Lyric Through April 7

Lyric Stage, a theatre company dedicated to the development and preservation of the musical, presents Sweeney Todd to April 7. These performances will be presented at Lyric Stage’s new studio stage. Tickets are now available.  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet … Continue reading

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Eat Me: The Coconut Cream Pie at Capital Grille

by Steven Doyle I recently made my way to Capital Grille and was blown away not only by the fare, but the amazing and well-tended service. And the pie.  All I heard that evening from patrons to staff was how amazing this … Continue reading

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Celebrate Pi Day With Us

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Bernie Worrell first came to prominence as a founding member and Musical Director of Parliament/Funkadelic. While this massively influential supergroup was radically altering the course of music, Bernie was radically charting the course of emerging keyboard technology during the golden age of analog synthesis. Among the key ingredients in his sonic stew were perfect pitch and a well-honed facility with the classical canon.

A child prodigy who began studying piano at the tender age of three and gave his first public performance just a year later, Worrell wrote his first concerto at age eight and performed with the Washington Symphony Orchestra at ten. His classical studies would continue throughout his adolescence, including private lessons at the Julliard School of Music, before he entered the New England Conservatory of Music. 

Upon leaving the Conservatory, Worrell served for several years as Musical Director for Maxine Brown before joining George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic crew. Worrell then proceeded to provide this freewheeling collective with a structural foundation which, while occasionally implied, was ever present. At the same time, he explored and expanded his own musical ideas in every conceivable direction with a brazenness which was both revolutionary and evolutionary. From fanciful forays on clavinet which leaped without warning from guttural gulps to squiggly squeals to liquid Minimoog bass lines which herded listeners to the dance floor, it all represented new musical language. All the while, his rapid advancements of the synthesizer's potential were actually traceable to his classical foundation.

The hits were many: "Flashlight," "Atomic Dog," "Aqua Boogie," "Cosmic Slop" and "Red Hot Mama" are only a few of the Parliament/Funkadelic classics which Worrell co-wrote, played and co-produced on literally dozens of albums -- not to mention his years of wild P-Funk performances, which quickly became the stuff of lore.
After departing Parliament/Funkadelic, Worrell resurfaced with the revamped Talking Heads lineup for several albums, including The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, Speaking In Tongues and Jonathan Demme's dazzling concert film, Stop Making Sense. Worrell's ominous colorings, this time delivered via new digital keyboards such as the Prophet 5, were central to the recasting of group leader David Byrne's musical ideas through African rhythms.

In the years since he left Talking Heads, Worrell has been a phenomenally prolific studio musician, serving as a primary change-agent in the many experimental works of producer Bill Laswell while contributing his singular flair to projects by the likes of Keith Richards, the Pretenders, Jack Bruce, Deee-Lite and Bootsy's New Rubber Band. At the same time, he has been among the most sampled musicians ever, with Digital Underground, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, DMX and countless others having acknowledged his timeless grooves by building their tunes around his signature riffs.
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At 7:34pm on September 28, 2011, VP said…
Bernie, Keep it Moving, because it wants to and can!.  Awesome, love the feeling the music emits!
At 7:52am on July 28, 2011, Lola Batiste said…
Thanx a lot for the connection and wow, there is some smoking funk on your page!
At 9:31pm on July 2, 2011, Joyce Spencer said…

Wow Bernie,just listened to your tracks from straight head to funk. You haven't lost a beat....still awesome!!!

 

At 9:11pm on July 2, 2011, Joyce Spencer said…

Hello Bernie, thanks for the friend connection here!!

 

At 7:54pm on June 18, 2011, Berardi Jazz Connection said…
Benvenuto....
 
 
 

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