{"id":309,"date":"2018-04-13T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-04-13T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:10:13","slug":"spike-wilner-mining-an-alternative-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/spike-wilner-mining-an-alternative-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Wilner: Mining An Alternative Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script>\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_312\" style=\"width: 1926px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-image-312 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/smalls9_med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1916\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/smalls9_med.jpg 1916w, https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/smalls9_med-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/smalls9_med-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1916px) 100vw, 1916px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smalls Owners Spike Wilner &amp; Mitch Borden<\/p><\/div>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-309-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Spike%20Wilner%20Final.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Spike%20Wilner%20Final.mp3\">http:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Spike%20Wilner%20Final.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallslive.com\/artists\/122-spike-wilner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spike Wilner<\/a> runs a bar business in Manhattan, New York City. He has rent and staff to pay, supplies and equipment to purchase. Since he was a teenager he has never stopped wanting to be a jazz piano player. He is that too. Why does he bother running a bar (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallslive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smalls Jazz Club<\/a>) in New York City where capitalist monsters devour whole city blocks at a snap in pursuit of profit when he could just play piano?<\/p>\n<p>Spike took time recently from a weekend installment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankiesjazzclub.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankie&#8217;s Jazz Club<\/a> in Vancouver, Canada, to explain his unique journey inside the metropole of the jazz world over the past 25 years. How he got started, his changing attitude, the power of constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this in depth and extensive interview with Spike Wilner and please feel free to share and comment.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a> <div class=\"fb-like\" \n    data-href=https:\/\/www.thejazzshed.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/spike-wilner-mining-an-alternative-currency\/\n    data-layout=\"standard\" \n    data-action=\"like\" \n    data-show-faces=\"false\">\n  <\/div><style media=\"screen\" type=\"text\/css\">\n.fb-like{\n    position:relative;\n    top:-6px;\n}\n<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Wilner runs a bar business in Manhattan, New York City. He has rent and staff to pay, supplies and equipment to purchase. Since he was a teenager he has never stopped wanting to be a jazz piano player. 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