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2023 Roundup

By MICHAEL RICCI
January 6, 2024
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2023 was a very good year for All About Jazz in terms of website expansion as we completed several projects including v2 of our newsletter platform, v1 of our survey platform, and a publicity firm client tracking service. Our website redesign project began in 2023 and we'll start to see the transformation of AAJ's appearance in the coming weeks.

Thanks to several twofers, the 2023 Song of the Week playlist ended up with 75 songs and nearly 8 hours of music. We've embedded the playlist below for your listening pleasure.

We published 17 year-end lists and we wanted to feature them all in one place, so here you go...

2023 Staff Favorites

2023 Popular Reads & Plays

Our top read lists tend to favor articles published earlier in the year so it should be noted that Robert Middletown's 72 Jazz Thrillers—a 12-part series which began its publication run on October 2—has been collectively read nearly 83,000 times (as of January 4, 2024).

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