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Tune in at All About Jazz for an intimate virtual home concert with Yilian Canizares & Raudol Palacios on April 26th
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Michael Ricci
Live from Baton Rouge via New York, please join us for a very special presentation of world-renounced violinist Yilian Canizares and cellist Raudol Palacios on Sunday, April 26th at 3:30pm ET from All About Jazz, Jazz Near You and Crowdcast. About Yilian Canizares Before she picks up her violin and walks onstage, Yilian Cañizares pays homage to her ancestors. Candles are lit. Prayers are said, and offerings made. Then as the houselights dim and her group of crack musicians file ...
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Project Livestream Jazz: An Update—Plus All About Jazz's Binge-Worthy Content—Early April Edition
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Michael Ricci
With club closures, shelter in place and an uncertain future, we've pivoted our platform to collect, promote and broadcast livestream concerts to support our jazz musician friends. We've also revamped the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter to highlight livestream events as well as All About Jazz content you may have missed. To sign up for your free weekly newsletter, simply update the “Jazz Near You Subscription Settings" section on your member settings page. Project Livestream Jazz: An Update We presented ...
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Adopt and maintain a Musician Page at All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz hosts over 148,000 musician pages, aiming to create a profile for every jazz musician worldwide. While some pages are complete and current (fantastic!), others need updates or are incomplete (not fantastic!). We invite passionate fans, musicians, publicists, managers, promoters, and family members to help maintain these pages. From global icons (living or deceased) to local legends, join All About Jazz in building the most comprehensive online jazz musician database for everyone to enjoy. How Can I Help, ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: March 2020
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in March, these ten represent our reader favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! TOP TRACKS Motion Doug Stone From: Motion 4:35 Lonely Hearts Petr Cancura From: Another Way Home 6:22 Blackfoot Blueprint, Greg Snedeker
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All About Jazz to Broadcast Live From Our Living Rooms: An Online Music Festival and Fundraiser
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Michael Ricci
Thanks, in part, to our own fund drive, All About Jazz & Jazz Near You have pivoted to support livestream jazz events. The transformation, which started ten days ago, has a singular purpose: to raise awareness of livestream jazz events worldwide and help boost ticket sales or tip jar donations. We also built on the broadcasting work we started with last year's NEA Jazz Masters celebration concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This rapid development made it possible ...
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Identify your venue or festival as a livestreamer at Jazz Near You
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Michael Ricci
As part of All About Jazz’s commitment to support livestream events, we wanted to identify the venues that present them—that includes clubs, festivals, home concert presenters, schools and studios. We began the process by seeding the directory here. This page is also accessible from the Jazz Near You venue directory and by clicking VENUES on the Jazz Near You navigation bar. If your venue livestreams, please update your Jazz Near You page. If you are your page's administrator, simply click ...
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Project Livestream Jazz: An Update—Plus All About Jazz's Binge-Worthy Content
Source:
Michael Ricci
With club closures, shelter in place and an uncertain future, we've pivoted our platform to collect, promote and broadcast livestream concerts to support our jazz musician friends. We've also revamped the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter to highlight livestream events as well as All About Jazz content you may have missed. To sign up for your free weekly newsletter, simply update the “Jazz Near You Subscription Settings" section on your member settings page. Project Livestream Jazz: An Update The Jazz ...
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WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia To Feature Artists Who Upload their Livestream events to Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You's effort to promote livestream jazz events has received an added boost thanks to a collaboration with WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia. In addition to accessing livestream events from the Jazz Near You website, the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter, the Jazz Near You app, and from external websites & blogs that embed the Jazz Near You livestream calendar widget and feed, WRTI will use the Jazz Near You's livestream calendar to promote the events that are uploaded ...
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