Matt Dillon gives rare interview to discuss love for Cuban music and 'El Gran Fellove.'
Long-awaited Cuban music doc transmits the 'exuberance and joy' of a tropical soul man and the actor’s love of vintage Cuban music.. Dillon describes the charismatic showman’s sound as “sheer exuberance and joy.”
Dillon builds an emotional connection to Fellove that deepens as we see the singer struggling to muster his former mojo. It’s later revealed, sadly, that the finished album was never released in his lifetime; Fellove died in Mexico City in 2013.revives his legacy and also introduces him to generations that never knew his music.
“He was a real innovator early on,” Dillon says. “His style of performing was very modern, influenced by jazz. The music was very Cuban, very playful, and yet it was very, very jazzy.” Tipped off to Fellove’s music, he listened to his best-known composition “Mango Mangue,” which was covered by Machito and Celia Cruz, among others, and his signature song “El Jamaiquino,”by the avant-garde tres player Niño Rivera. “I just loved it, I didn’t question it, it’s a feeling you have right away,” Dillon says. “It was that voice, he had this incredible voice.
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