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Future of Music Newsletter #123 | July 23, 2014

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Greetings, FMC friends! It’s been a busy July–we’ve been standing up for artists’ rights in Congress, and (with your help) flooding the FCC’s inbox with support for an open internet. Read on for the details!

1.  FMC On The Hill
2.  2014 Policy Summit: Register Now & Save
3.  Net Neutrality: What’s Next?
4.  Best of The Blog
5.  Interns Wanted
6.  FMC On The Road
7.  How Are We Doing?

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CD Review: The Bushwick Hotel…”the saxophone is woven into a genre where most people are (erroneously) convinced the saxophone does not belong”

Bushwick Hotel CD coverArtist: The Bushwick Hotel
Title: Graffiti of the Young Man’s Mind
Label: self produced
Genre: indie rock

CD Review by Dawoud Kringle

One of the most interesting, although potentially incongruous, manifestations of American music is when jazz musicians play rock / pop music. Of course, there is nothing new about this. Frank Beecher of rock & roll pioneers Bill Haley and the Comets was a jazz musician. The musicians who played on the Motown soul and R&B hits of yesteryear came from a jazz tradition. And who can forget Steely Dan, who mixed jazz to pop, and unintentionally had young rock audiences believing they’d invented major 7th chords? When jazz musicians enter the rock/pop world, they invariably make a contribution to the music that rock musicians along rarely can.

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Recommended forthcoming music shows in NY

Here is what is coming up that might be of interest to my New York readers.

– West African blues (Noura) at Joe’s Pub next week!
– French and indie with a little comedy, (Erin and her cello) at Joe’s Pub July 31st
– Ethiopian reggae show (Zvuloon) at Meridian 23 Aug 1st
– Remix EP from Brooklyn based Afrobeat group Underground System (with a concert at Meridian 23 on Aug 15th)

Noura Mint Seymali – Mauritanian Blues; Noura Mint Seymali at Joe’s Pub 7/29 – 07/29/2014 – New York, NY
Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has a commanding, wide-open voice…the pentatonic melodies of her songs had something in common with the blues. But her fusion was particular and selective…She only meets American music on her own terms. +++New York Times, January 13th, 2014

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