Michael Ricci

Lover of jazz, technology and sitting in a chair, Mick merged his three passions to create All About Jazz.

About Me

A web entrepreneur with a background in information technologies, Michael Ricci combined his love of jazz music with his fascination for all things internet and launched All About Jazz in 1995—a website that reaches over 20,000 readers a day.

Michael spun off Jazz Near You in 2012, an event discovery platform focused on collecting jazz events and promoting them through his vast network spanning the web, email, phones, widgets & feeds, churches, synagogues, Piggly Wiggly's, Wawas, and at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

Michael is considered one of jazz's foremost agents of change. His All About Jazz website is a 13-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association's “Best Web Site Covering Jazz” award before the category was ceremoniously retired. AAJ has also been recognized as the top jazz web site by Google, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, Time Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Real housewives of Atlanta and Detroit, people of color, people of no color and by Michael Ricci's mother, Lulu.

Mr. Ricci lives outside of Philadelphia in the sleepless town of Towamencin with his wife Rosemary, his trusty companion Sammy and knows 117,448 jazz musicians by name.

Community Posts

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  Best Jazz Releases of 2020

  Posted: December 11, 2020
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  A run on interviews

  Posted: November 30, 2020
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  Rebuilding from the ground up

  Posted: November 19, 2020
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  More Blast from our Past: Jazz Backstage

  Posted: October 21, 2020
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  Blast from our past... AAJme: a short but sweet run

  Posted: October 8, 2020
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  More Contests, More Winners!

  Posted: September 18, 2020
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  Bird at 100

  Posted: August 29, 2020
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  Celebrating 25 years online!

  Posted: August 15, 2020
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  All About Rudy! Binge-Worthy Content—Early August Edition

  Posted: August 7, 2020
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  502, and the move to end all moves...

  Posted: July 28, 2020

My Jazz Story

Published on: 2016-03-21

Thanks to my dad and his record collection, I started listening to jazz at an early age. He also took me to concerts, and I was nine when I saw Maynard Ferguson (circa "Live at Jimmy's"). The band's leisure suits were nearly as memorable as their music. Inspired, I played the trumpet for several years but stopped sometime in college, though I continued to collect music (thousands of vinyl records turned into thousands of compact discs) and see live shows. In 1995 I combined my interest in the internet with my love of jazz and created a website to promote the music. And here we are today!

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