The Last Reel: Questlove Side A
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series continues with its first installment of a TWO-PARTER about the great Questlove.
Today’s episode includes Allan’s TFH commentary for Summer of Soul, Questlove’s band The Roots performing, Adele jamming with The Roots in The Tonight Show‘s Toy Instrument Orchestra, and part of the amazing Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary music mash-up.
Allan is taking a look at Questlove as a drummer in The Roots, an Academy Award-winning director, an editor, a cookbook author, and of course The Tonight Show‘s bandleader.
Thanks for another entertaining & informative trip through movies & music! Questlove’s opening SNL montage is amazing. Watched it over and over back then and recommended it to many of my friends.
Love the “Something Wild” soundtrack LP in the background – itself (as most of Demme’s films) a great mixtape, with the album collecting only a (fine) fragment of all the ace music in that wonderful movie.
For those curious who don’t know it: check out “Loco De Amor” by David Byrne & Celia Cruz, “Highlife” by Sonny Okosun or Sister Carol’s “Wild Thing” to name a few! Gets you warm in the winter.
Thank you Patrick, I took a lot of music suggestions from Jonathan Demme