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 50,000 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 that includes: 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. It's also been recognized as the top jazz web site by Google, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, 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.

He lives just outside of Philadelphia near a babbling brook, and knows 114,202 jazz musicians by name.

Community Posts

Listen to Tracks Before Their Day... and more!
Posted: May 28, 2020
Follow us on Instagram!
Posted: May 18, 2020
Binge-Worthy Content—Early May Edition
Posted: May 7, 2020
Joey Alexander Quarantine Concert Series show broadcasted at All About Jazz
Posted: April 28, 2020
Live from Leonhart's Lounge! A Virtual Listening Party.
Posted: April 22, 2020
How to upload a livestream event to Jazz Near You
Posted: April 16, 2020
Back by semi-Popular demand: Love Jazz, Hate Jazz
Posted: April 13, 2020
Pivoting to support jazz musicians and presenters around the globe
Posted: April 8, 2020
Second Livestream Broadcast With Los Angeles-Based Singer, Song-Writer And Multi-Instrumentalist Joanna Wallfisch A Success!
Posted: April 6, 2020
Have an upcoming livestream event? Upload it to Jazz Near You.
Posted: March 20, 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!