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 vocation with his love of jazz music and launched All About Jazz in 1995—a website that reaches over 500,000 readers worldwide. Since then he has established a much deeper understanding of the industry and has continually developed web-based promotional solutions for jazz professionals, while delivering content to jazz enthusiasts daily.

Michael spun off Jazz Near You in October 2012, a network of 300 websites focused on aggregating local jazz events and distributing them through the web, email, phone, widgets and feeds, resulting in greater local community support of the music.

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. It has also been recognized as the top jazz web site by Google, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Time Magazine, and Forbes Magazine.

He lives just outside of Philadelphia, and knows 107,817 jazz musicians by name.

Community Posts

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
Improved album content to support leaders, co-leaders and side personnel
Posted: March 16, 2020
Nooks & Crannies: Your Personal Jazz Calendar
Posted: March 11, 2020
Back on track (of the day)
Posted: February 19, 2020
Interviews galore!
Posted: February 15, 2020
Resubscribe to the Jazz Near You Weekly Newsletter
Posted: January 22, 2020
GroundUP Music Festival Ticket Giveaway. Enter today!
Posted: January 13, 2020
Super search project underway.
Posted: January 9, 2020
2019... in the books.
Posted: January 2, 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!