All About Jazz Highlights | September 2004

News from allaboutjazz.com | September 24, 2004

Boost your website traffic with AAJ Live Content

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

BOOST YOUR WEBSITE TRAFFIC
CONTENT GALORE! CD REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
JAZZ NEWS: READ IT, POST IT
TRAFFIC UP!
JAZZ CLUBS: QUICK LINK
MOST READ ARTICLES & REVIEWS

BOOST YOUR WEBSITE TRAFFIC WITH AAJ LIVE CONTENT

Looking for daily content for your website? Want to keep readers coming back for more? All About Jazz can help.

AAJ has created a series of live content boxes for news, articles, CD reviews and upcoming CD releases. Place any or all of our boxes on your website and watch your traffic grow.

Adding a content box to your website is simple, but it does require some knowledge of HTML. Just follow these instructions and you'll be up and running in no time.

Anyone can benefit from daily content, though we strongly encourage radio stations and general purpose jazz sites to add the news box. To see the news box in action, visit the Jazz Promo Services website.

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS...

AAJ is proud to showcase the following CDs:

Mainstream Releases
Matthias Lupri's Transition Sonic, Stan Sulzmann's The Jigsaw, Dave Lobenstein's Triple Play, Ron Levy's B-3 Organic Grooves, Jon Weber's Simple Complex and Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Paseo.

Vocal Releases
Patricia Barber's Live: A Fortnight In France, Sofia Laiti's You Don't Know Me, Siora's Vis-a-Vis and Susan Getz's Jazz Boxx.

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

Thanks to a boatload of multiple CD reviews, AAJ once again eclipsed the 200 CD review mark. As always, we published hundreds of CD reviews and extended analysis reviews, but this month we'd like to shine the spotlight on multiple reviews.

C. Michael Bailey chipped in with a "Bailey's Bundles" and his column Nights at the Turntable; Chris Slawecki submitted Postcards From Seven Summer Day Trips; David Rickert takes us on a hardbop hayride; and Dr. Judith Schlesinger helps us Swing into Fall.

If you haven't visited the site recently, chances are you missed some good stuff. We strongly recommend John Kelman's interview with guitarist Jacob Young, Vincent Stephens' opinion piece They're Still Here: How to Honor Maturing Singers and Mark Sabbatini's profile of pianist Chick Corea.

As always, AAJ brings you up close and personal with today's (and tomorrow's) musicians of note. This month, in addition to Jacob Young, we chatted with Eliane Elias, Irvin Mayfield, McCoy Tyner, Ozomatli, Joe Maneri, Chick Corea, Terry Gibbs, Wadada Leo Smith, Tom Marriott (Blindfolded!), and Willem Breuker.

JAZZ NEWS: READ IT, POST IT

Daily news has become an integral part of AAJ over the last few years and we've seen our news activity grow significantly this year.

If you're a record label publicist, an independent publicist, or an artist looking to get the word out about a new release or tour, make a point of posting your announcement.

AAJ now pushes its news out to other websites, so the news you enter at All About Jazz will also be echoed throughout our network (of 350,000+ readers).

What constitutes news? New CD/DVD/book release information, tour information, industry awards, special events, appearances, obits, record label signings, etc.

TRAFFIC UP!

Kids are back at school, readers have returned from vacation, and AAJ traffic is way up. We could reach 100,000 readers this week alone!

You can benefit from AAJ's traffic in a number of ways. If you're a musician, add your profile to the AAJ Musician Center and post your new release information. If you're in the industry and have news to share, post it the AAJ News Center. Have a website? Add a link here.

AAJ was created to serve jazz musicians, jazz enthusiasts, and the jazz industry. Take advantage of what we have to offer and what is soon to come.

JAZZ CLUBS: QUICK LINK

You can now access a list of your local jazz clubs by clicking the "Local Jazz Clubs" link in the "Near You" box located on each AAJ page.

To enter your regional information, click the "Local Jazz Clubs" link, enter your zip code (for international users, enter your city and country) and hit the "Go" button.

The system will then set a cookie and provide a permanent one-click link to a list of your local clubs.

If we have omitted a venue in your area, please add it here.

MOST READ ARTICLES & CD REVIEWS

Picking up from last month, here are our seven most read articles in September...

And the seven most read CD reviews...

End of the World Party by MM&W
Deja Voodoo by Gov't Mule
Eternal by Branford Marsalis
The Out-of-Towners by Keith Jarrett, et al.
Live in Tokyo by Brad Mehldau
Evening Falls by Jacob Young
Transition Sonic by Matthias Lupri

Till next month,

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