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Jimmy Greene Quintet – 'As We Are Now' Album Release Celebration At The Artists Collective On Thursday, June 12th, 2025

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Lori Reynolds
Exactly thirty-five years after his first life-changing encounter with Jackie McLean at the Artists Collective, saxophonist Jimmy Greene returns to the Collective with his quintet on June 12 to celebrate the release of his latest album, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works). Joining Greene for this special night are the same all-star musicians who appear on the recording: guitarist Mike Moreno, pianist Aaron Goldberg (original member of the Artists’ Collective Twin Towers Quintet, alongside Greene, in 1994), bassist Dezron ...
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Black Art Jazz Collective: 'Truth to Power'

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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Many jazz fans break out in a sweat when they see the word collective" in the name of a jazz group. One assumes the music is going to be avant-garde and free form to the point of incoherence. You'll be happy to know that that the Black Art Jazz Collective's new album Truth to Power (HighNote) is warmly stormy and soulfully engaging. This collective is a sextet that has been around since 2014 and features topnotch musicians carrying on the ...
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Acclaimed Global Music Collective The Scooches Ready New Single, 'Stop This Climate Change' For Earth Day

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1888 Media
Global music sensation The Scooches have announced the April 21st release of Stop This Climate Change,” a poetic and uplifting call to action fraught with cataclysmic imagery, yet infused with the desire for change. Arriving in time for Earth Day, the lyric We’ve got to stop this climate and change" refers to the climate of helplessness and denial that surrounds climate change. Vocalist Betina Hershey wrote the song about interpersonal relationships with each other but also with Mother Earth because, ...
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Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'

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Christine King
Jade Collective is a group of talented musicians with the common goal of bringing freshness, personality and innovation to the world of modern jazz music. Their most recent EP features five songs that blur the lines between a wide range of musical influences. The first song, “Light” showcases beautiful ambient soundscapes and piano parts that make me think of artists like Brian Eno. Over the beautiful droning textures, a set of beautiful acoustic instruments and passionate vocals create an intimate ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: SFJAZZ Collective plays Sly and Miles

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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the SFJAZZ Collective, who will be coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, March 14 at The Sheldon. Formed in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective is an eight-member, all-star group that's based at San Francisco's presenting and producing organization SFJAZZ, while drawing players from all over the country. The band's personnel has evolved over the years, as individual members have moved on and been replaced, but they've continued to ...
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Saxophonist-Composer Benjamin Boone Collaborates With Accra-Based Ghana Jazz Collective On New Album "Joy," Due March 20

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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone’s The Poetry of Jazz," a visionary collaboration with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, was praised in leading musical and literary publications, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and voted the #3 Best Album of 2018 in DownBeat’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. Boone documents an equally compelling collaboration, this time from his year as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, on his newest project Joy," set for a March 20th release on Origin Records. This album, the fifth ...
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What Every Songwriter Needs To Know About The Music Licensing Collective

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HypeBot
A major component of the recently passed Music Modernization Act is a new entity known as the Music Licensing Collective (or MLC), designed to manage blanket licensing, gather money from streaming platforms, and payout revenue to copyright owner. Here we review some key things songwriters should know before the MLC goes into effect. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 One of the many aspects of the recently passed Music Modernization Act by Congress is what’s known as the ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Snarky Puppy's eclectic collective

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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, it's time to check out some videos of jazz/funk/world/fusion band Snarky Puppy, who will be returning to St. Louis to perform Sunday, May 19 at Atomic Cowboy's outdoor pavilion. Sometimes described as a loose collective" under the leadership of bassist and founder Michael League, with a lineup that can range in size from seven or eight musicians up to 25, Snarky Puppy draws on an eclectic mix of influences- most notably jazz and funk, but also a variety ...
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AMLC Makes Case For A More Independent Mechanical Licensing Collective

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HypeBot
The Music Modernization Act calls for the creation of a Mechanical Licensing Collective to oversee the blanket mechanical licenses that the new law established. So far, two groups ave applied to the Copyright Royalty Board, who will chose the new collective in July. One group has been spearheaded by the National Music Publishers Association is made up of industry heavyweights. Another, the American Mechanical License Collective, brings together a more diverse group, no less versed in the world of music ...
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Francois Houle's, Alexander Hawkins' And Harris Eisenstadt's Collective Trio Will Release You Have Options On November 9 On Songlines

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GoMedia PR
This collective trio was born when the late (and greatly missed) Ken Pickering, co-founder and artistic director of Vancouver’s jazz festival, recommended Alexander Hawkins for the piano chair in a new Houle project for the 2014 festival. Houle already had Brooklyn-based fellow Canadian Harris Eisenstadt in mind—Harris had recently toured and recorded in his 5+1 project (Genera, Songlines 2012). And Eisenstadt and Hawkins had played together for years in the collective Convergence Quartet. The Oxford-based Hawkins however was unknown to ...
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