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News from allaboutjazz.com | July 23, 2004

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This month's update details some of the latest changes to All About Jazz, so please read on...

THE PARIAH RETURNS!
REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND FESTIVALS
YOUR "BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY" LISTS
WIDE WORLD OF JAZZ
TOP TEN MOST READ

Visit our monthly welcome page, the quickest way to discover what's new from your friends at All About Jazz.

BRET PRIMACK'S NEW BLOG: JAZZ AND THE NET

AAJ has been on the lookout for someone to author our first blog and we couldn't have found a better fit than Bret Primack. Bret's combined knowledge of jazz and the internet is unparalleled--he's also a swell guy.

Bret is currently discussing the implications of and the opportunities presented by filesharing. If you're a jazz musician, or access your jazz music peer-to-peer, check it out.

You can expect "explosive" commentary from Bret in the coming weeks, so make his blog a part of your surfing regimen. Those who remember Bret from the "Bird Lives" days, please welcome him to AAJ by posting your comments.

Here are some of the recent topics Bret covered over the last two weeks...
The Nuts and Bolts of Legal Filesharing
Reaching A New Audience With Viral Marketing aka Filesharing
To Fileshare or Not To Fileshare, That Is The Question
Email Nightmare

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS...

AAJ is proud to showcase the following CDs:

Mainstream Releases
McCoy Tyner's Illuminations, George Shearing's Like Fine Wine, Bucky Pizzarelli's Hot Club of 52nd Street, Charñett Moffett's For the Love of Peace, Kirk Lightsey's Nights Of Bradley's and Bill O'Connell's Latin Jazz Fantasy.

Vocal Releases
Ron Kaplan's Jazz Ambassadors and Natasha Miller's I Had a Feelin'.

Show your support of AAJ by clicking through to these artists' websites and listening to music from their latest releases.

Jazz musician or label? Click here for more information about promoting your new CD.

CD REVIEWS AND ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS

AAJ has delivered the goodies once again by publishing nearly 200 CD reviews. Our ever-growing staff of international writers chipped in with CD reviews, extended analysis reviews and multiple reviews.

We featured some superb stories this month, including: Chris M. Slawecki's 3-part interview with CTI Records founder Creed Taylor, Vincent Stephens's opinion piece Underwhelming Understatement: A Plea for Persona in Jazz Vocals, and plenty of coverage from Canada with the Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Victoriaville Jazz festivals.

As always, AAJ brings you up close and personal with today's jazzers of note. This month, in addition to Creed Taylor, we chatted with Joe Lovano, Steve Williams, Rob Mazurek, Tom Smith, and Marian McPartland.

We saw a spike in DVD reviews this month--a baker's dozen. A few titles of note: Charlie Hunter's Right Now Live, The Black Big Bands: Four Swinging Big Bands from a Bygone Era, and Los Hombres Calientes's Live at the House of Blues.

YOUR "BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY" LISTS

AAJ has published a variety of "Building A Jazz Library" recommendation lists (Monk example) and we're looking to compile our loyal readers favorites for an upcoming feature. To post your list, go to the bulletin board, read the guidelines and post your list. If ten is too confining, feel free to expand it to 15-20.

The most frequently listed titles will be included in "BAJL: Readers Picks, Volume 1". Look for it soon.

GLOBAL COVERAGE: WE NEED YOU!

We'd like to acknowledge everyone who has answered our help wanted ad over the last two months. Some have come on board and have immediately started contributing--we thank you!

CD, book and DVD reviews are always welcome, but we're committed to covering the international jazz scene and we're looking for "correspondents" to report from the field. From the UK to the Far East, we intend to span the globe in our festival and live coverage.

If you are a champion of your hometown's jazz scene and want to bring it to a much larger audience, we'd love to hear from you. Please visit our help wanted page for more details.

TOP TEN MOST READ ARTICLES

We started tracking how often articles were read to give us a better indication of what you found most interesting. If you toss out the site welcome and last month's greeting, these are our ten most popular articles since July 1...

Till next month,

Mike, Chris, Nils and the entire All About Jazz Staff