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News from allaboutjazz.com | November 29, 2004

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

SURVEYING JAZZ
HOLIDAY JAZZ
BOOST YOUR WEBSITE TRAFFIC
SITE IMPROVEMENTS
CD REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
GET TO KNOW US
MOST READ ARTICLES & REVIEWS

MONTHLY GREETING: SURVEYING JAZZ

In the leadup and aftermath of the US elections, we learned a lot about the social and cultural forces that fuel American politics. One of the tools which has come into increasing vogue—and become disturbingly useful to campaigns—is the opinion poll.

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A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS...

AAJ is proud to showcase the following CDs:

Mainstream Releases
Wynton Marsalis's Unforgivable Blackness, Chuck Mangione's The Feeling's Back (SACD), Phil Woods's This Is How I Feel About Quincy, Dom Minasi's Quick Response, Ron Levy's B-3 Organic Grooves, George Kahn's ...Compared To What?, Jon Weber's Simple Complex, and Greg Burk's Carpe Momentum.

From Latin to Fusion
Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project's Soul Eyes and Barry Cleveland's Volcano.

Holiday Releases
Dianne Reeves's Christmas Time Is Here and Anton Schwartz's Holiday Time.

Vocal Releases
Fay Victor's Lazy Old Sun, John Vance's It's All Right With Me, Jen Rathbun's Coffee, Chocolate & Men, Stevie Holland's Restless Willow, and The Manhattan Transfer's Vibrate.

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.

HOLIDAY JAZZ

We've created a new Holiday Jazz page with links to our extensive holiday reviews, articles, and discussion topics. A link to this page will appear in the far-right column of the home page throughout December.

If you're new to AAJ and are looking for recommendations, try Dave Hughes's suggestions from his Building a Jazz Library: Holiday Music.

Looking for free holiday downloads? Mark Sabbatini will hip you to the spots to find them!

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.

SITE IMPROVEMENTS

We want to hip our occasional visitors to three new changes/additions:

[1] The home page, now links to the last five updated threads on the AAJ Bulletin Board. If you want to get a quick snapshot of what AAJ readers are discussing, click any one of these links.

[2] Charlie Dahan is now listing books at the Upcoming Releases Center. If you haven't visited this page, please do -- it's the most comprehensive online resource of its type.

[3] Since multiple perspectives are always fun and often start great discussions, AAJ will occassionally publish multiple reviews of a single CD. The eyeglasses icon () just below the "print this" icon indicate when multiple reviews of a CD exist. (example)

CD REVIEWS AND ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS

AAJ continues to rock the global beat as we eclipsed 180 CD reviews for the month. Many contributed extended analysis reviews, and special thanks to C. Michael Bailey for his multiple reviews.

If you haven't visited the site recently, chances are you missed some exceptional articles. We strongly recommend John Kelman's review of The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD, Seventh Edition, Jack Gold's Jazz Out There: Out of Print and Unavailable, and Nathan Holaway's 1959: The Most Creative Year in Jazz. Or share a smile with Bill Anschell, back yucking it up with Jazz Math.

As always, AAJ brings you up close and personal with today's (and tomorrow's) musicians of note. This month, we chatted with Joshua Redman, Esbjörn Svensson, Luis Perdomo, Vinicius Cantuaria, Matthias Lupri, David Sanchez, Michael Musillami, and many more.

GET TO KNOW US

AAJ is comprised of a band of volunteers from enthusiasts to working musicians. Hundreds of contributors from around the globe keep the site humming along daily with their articles and reviews.

We now feature some of our most long-standing contributors on the bottom of the home page. To get to know an AAJ contributor, click their name within the "Contributor" box on the home page (just above the daily quote).

MOST READ ARTICLES & CD REVIEWS

Our seven most read articles in November...

And the seven most read CD reviews...

Footprints: The Life... by Wayne Shorter
Translinear Light by Alice Coltrane
Fear Of Roaming by Sangha Quartet
Red & Green by Ali Farka Toure
California Cool by Jack Sheldon
Waraba by Jean-Jacques Avenel
Hope is in the Air by New Stories

Till next month,

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