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Crash: Candy Shop
by Dave Nathan
The Canadian quintet, Crash, is still one more group made up of talented musicians, like Maceo Parker and Medeski, Martin and Wood, who are reaching out to a younger audience by bridging the gap between jazz and contemporary pop and rock music. The result is a toe tapping, shoulder shaking conglomeration of musical styles incorporating ingredients of hip hop, funk, groove into such jazz styles as swing and fusion. The composing credits on the play list are collegially assigned to ...
Continue ReadingCuban Drummer Francisco Mela Returns To New York's Cornelia Street Café To Lead The Crash + One

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Cuban drummer Francisco Mela (Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Chucho Valdés) will return to Greenwich Village's Cornelia Street Café to lead his ensemble, The Crash Trio + One, for a one-night performance on May 20, 2017. Joining him that evening will be Tony Malaby (tenor sax), Leo Genovese (piano), and Gerald Cannon (bass). 2017 has been a busy year for Mela thus far, with a performance with McCoy Tyner at the Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, European dates in late April with his band ...
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Drummer Francisco Mela To Lead The Crash Trio + One At Upcoming Performance At Cornelia Street Café On February 24

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On February 24, 2017, Cuban drummer Francisco Mela (Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Chucho Valdés) will lead his ensemble, The Crash Trio + One, for a one-night performance at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City. The show will feature Tony Malaby (tenor saxophone), Leo Genovese (piano), Santi Debriano (bass), alongside Mela on drums. Mela’s upcoming performance follows an earlier appearance with his group at Smalls Jazz Club last month and comes after a busy couple of months closing 2016, including ...
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6 Organizations That Give Indie Musicians Grants, Crash Pads, More

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Even the most independent of indie musicians can use a little help every now and again and, fortunately for them, there are organizations with precisely this purpose, whether you're looking for some financial help, or simply a place to crash. Guest Post by Jonathan Hack on the Sonicbids Blog One of the most important things that I tell young artists is to embrace their status as a business of one – a sole proprietorship, if you will. It may not always ...
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Marcus Miller Hurt In Swiss Bus Crash

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Maxim Micheliov
(Reuters) - U.S. jazz musician Marcus Miller was injured on Sunday along with members of his band when their bus crashed in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said. The two-time Grammy winner was travelling with 10 members of his band from Monte Carlo in Monaco to Hengelo in the Netherlands when the bus crashed on the highway near the town of Schattdorf in central Switzerland. A Swiss police spokesman said the driver died from his injuries. The reserve driver, Miller ...
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Why Vinyl is the Next Format to Crash...

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Digital Music News
We already know the story on a-la-carte song downloads they're flat and declining in the US (down 0.2 percent during the first half). And, after three quarters this year, digital albums sales are also looking problematic. Billboard analyst Glenn Peoples recently dropped into the data on digital albums, and found some serious warning signs based on previous growth rates. But what about the resurgent vinyl, the nostalgic wunderkind that everyone loves to 'wax' about? Music aficionados swear by its ...
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Saxophonist Gerry Niewood Dies in Buffalo Plane Crash

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All About Jazz
Two Mangione musicians die in plane crash Jazz great in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy
Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangiones band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., a publicist said Friday. Publicist Sanford Brokaw identified the band members as Gerry Niewood, 64, of Rochester, N.Y., and Coleman Mellett of Maryland. Niewood played saxophone and flute and Mellett was a guitarist.
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The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

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Michael Ricci
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age' by Steve Knopper. By ignoring online opportunities and clinging to its big-brother ways, labels find themselves lost in a new world.
Few industries inspire more enmity than the record business. It's been tainted since the birth of rock, with transgressions that include payola, greed, a reactionary aversion to technology and a plantation mentality toward its bread and butter -- the recording artists. Thanks to ...
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Swedish Hip-Hop Artist Likens Fatal Encounter to 'Crash' Movie

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Michael Ricci
A lawyer for a Swedish hip-hop artist accused of murdering a pedestrian in a sensational act of road rage invoked the movie Crash today in asking for a reduction in the performers $1-million bail.
In court papers, David Jassys attorney wrote that the fatal encounter in a Hollywood crosswalk was a prime example of the Academy Award-winning films thesis ... that random interactions of diverse people in a City as frenetic as Los Angeles can lead to disastrous consequences.
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The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

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Michael Ricci
When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won You cant roll a joint on an iPod, the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose thats among the iPods drawbacks. But its hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades thats brought more pleasure to more people.
APPETITE FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION
An Excerpt From Appetite for Self-Destruction (simonsays.com)Should anyone care that in the process, the iPod has ...
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Roots Crash Bus: Band OK

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JamBase
ROOTS CRASH BUS IN EUROPE: EVERYONE OK
The Roots While cruising the web we learned that The Roots suffered a serious tour bus crash in Paris on the evening of November 19. The double-decker bus, with full lounge, bathroom and sleeping bunks up top crashed hard. Check ?uestlove's email after the accident for the full play-by-play of the experience, including all the frightening details.
I used to live life, like there was no manana Now I'm treatin ...
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