“Memory is my tool and my raw material,” author Gabriel García Márquez once said to his son. “I cannot work without it.” As the great writer’s memory began to fail him late in life, his family circled around. Rodrigo García relays those days of caring and loss in his poignant memoir of his parents’ final years, “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes.”
WBGO's Jamara Wakefield interviews trumpeter and composer Jeff Beal about his soundtrack for the jazz-themed film Raymond and Ray, starring Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor