James R. Collins Sr.

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  Published on: 5/5/2008    Last Visited: 5/9/2008  

  With a rebellious freedom and an undaunted genius Fertile Ground's founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the band's music to listeners the best way possible. http://www.myspace.com/fertilegroundmusic

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 8/26/2008  

  Also a budding songwriter and producer, Navasha and newly-wed husband James provide the perfect backbone to this seasoned army of world-class musicians.
  
  Still ironically considered new artists, Fertile Ground has seven years, countless performances, and dozens of recordings to their credit.After 2 years of extensive touring, writing and recording, the group will unveil their fourth full-length masterpiece, simply entitled Black Is… the highly-anticipated CD, is the sequel to the acclaimed 2002 release Seasons Change.This fourth full-length album, which will be internationally released and supported by an extensive world tour, contains a range of ethereal classics such as the title track, Black Is…, a soulful jazz waltz ballad full of affirmation, the joyful noise of Live In the Light; and the introspectively revealing song Naked, which gives us an example of how to truly connect with and reflect each other.
  
  Selling more than 125,000 albums they have created the modern blueprint for independent music sales and become the leader of a movement.With a rebellious freedom and an undaunted genius Fertile Ground's founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the band's music to listeners the best way possible.

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  Published on: 4/6/2007    Last Visited: 4/13/2007  

  I would like to know why I have to pay independent contractor Jim Collins to pick up my garbage in Georges Township.

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  Published on: 3/19/2007    Last Visited: 9/3/2007  

  Fertile Ground's founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the band's music to listeners the best way possible and quickly recognizes that original world music can be transmitted through the effective use of the underground.

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  www.jazzrefreshed.com/fertilegroundbiog/4515774130 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/4/2007    Last Visited: 7/4/2007  

  Also a budding songwriter and producer, Navasha and newly-wed husband James provide the perfect backbone to this seasoned army of world-class musicians.Still ironically considered new artists, Fertile Ground has seven years, countless performances, and dozens of recordings to their credit.After 2 years of extensive touring, writing and recording, the group will unveil their fourth full-length masterpiece, simply entitled Black Is the highly-anticipated CD, is the sequel to the acclaimed 2002 release Seasons Change.This fourth full-length album, which will be internationally released and supported by an extensive world tour, contains a range of ethereal classics such as the title track, Black Is, a soulful jazz waltz ballad full of affirmation, the joyful noise of Live In the Light; and the introspectively revealing song Naked, which gives us an example of how to truly connect with and reflect each other.Selling more than 125,000 albums they have created the modern blueprint for independent music sales and become the leader of a movement.With a rebellious freedom and an undaunted genius Fertile Grounds founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the bands music to listeners the best way possible.
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  Also a budding songwriter and producer, Navasha and newly-wed husband James provide the perfect backbone to this seasoned army of world-class musicians.Still ironically considered new artists, Fertile Ground has seven years, countless performances, and dozens of recordings to their credit.After 2 years of extensive touring, writing and recording, the group will unveil their fourth full-length masterpiece, simply entitled Black Is the highly-anticipated CD, is the sequel to the acclaimed 2002 release Seasons Change.This fourth full-length album, which will be internationally released and supported by an extensive world tour, contains a range of ethereal classics such as the title track, Black Is, a soulful jazz waltz ballad full of affirmation, the joyful noise of Live In the Light; and the introspectively revealing song Naked, which gives us an example of how to truly connect with and reflect each other.Selling more than 125,000 albums they have created the modern blueprint for independent music sales and become the leader of a movement.With a rebellious freedom and an undaunted genius Fertile Grounds founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the bands music to listeners the best way possible.

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  Published on: 5/14/2006    Last Visited: 7/19/2008  

  The band's dynamic live fusion of soul, jazz and Afro-Caribbean sounds, centred around Navasha Daya's beautiful voice, and the melodic originality of composer/keyboardist, James Collins, has also attracted the attention of some of the more cutting-edge remixers from the underground club scene.Some of the tracks on this cd were released as limited edition 12" singles, alongside some exclusive tracks previously unreleased.

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  ::Metropolis Tokyo :: MUSIC - Fertile Ground - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/25/2004    Last Visited: 8/24/2005  

  Marital bliss: James Collins (back left) and wife Navasha Daya (front center) lead Fertile Ground
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  Collins explains."Record labels seemed to be so inaccessible, and it becomes much more political and contrived when you're dealing with something that has to be a national or global product."
  
  Taking his cue from labels like Okay Player, home to live hip-hop collective the Roots, and his observation of the impetus it's given to the music scene in nearby Philadelphia, Collins launched Blackout to give voice to Fertile Ground's brand of instrumental music, which Collins says was underrepresented amid the headlock of hip-hop on the contemporary US black music scene.
  
  "We represent a resurgence of live music, of just saying, 'Look, we have a concert, and there are people at the concert and we'll sell records to them.' We also try and reach out to stores, but we're not approaching this as 'We're creating a product and how do we sell this product?' We're thinking what do we need to do to continue to create great music, and how do we continue to create music and continue to share it with people?It's a little different from the Sony way of doing things."
  
  Collins formed Fertile Ground seven years ago in Baltimore, deferring entrance to medical school to try his luck as a musician.He wrote, recorded, and produced the band's debut album, Field Songs, and gradually built Fertile Ground from a trio into a seven-piece powerhouse.
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  "The song 'Artist's Prayer' poses the question, as is the theme throughout the record, 'What is an artist and what should we be asking for?'" says Collins.
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  Returning to Japan for what Collins says will be Fertile Ground's fourth or fifth time, Collins says that sometimes foreign audiences are more respectful of the contributions of African-American culture than African-Americans himself.And while he probably isn't aware of the challenges that African-Americans living in Japan face, he certainly has it right when it comes to the kind of audience likely to turn out for Fertile Ground's upcoming Blue Note and Motion Blue gigs.

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  About ASCAP: ASCAP Personnel - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/16/2001    Last Visited: 6/16/2001  

  Jim CollinsSenior Vice President , Finance and Planningjcollins@ascap.com

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  Amplified Online - Fertile Ground - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/19/2004    Last Visited: 3/8/2006  

  James Collins formed Fertile Ground in Baltimore in the spring of 1997, based around Navasha Daya's warm vocals and drummer Marcus Asante's drum grooves.
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  By this time the group had become a quartet consisting of Collins (piano, keyboards and trumpet) who produced and wrote the majority of the album, Marcus Asante (drums), Ekendra Das (percussion) and Navasha Daya (lead vocals).

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  Published on: 11/19/2006    Last Visited: 11/19/2006  

  With a rebellious freedom and an undaunted genius Fertile Ground's founding leader and keyboardist, James Collins, started Blackout Studios to help get the band's music to listeners the best way possible.

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