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Attention Jazz Fans: Support Jazz Musicians—Buy Their Music Direct!
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Michael Ricci
Now, More Than Ever, Musicians Need Your Support. These are extraordinary times yet one thing is certain… music connects communities. Due to this pandemic, understandably, all live performances have been cancelled until further notice. Yet, it's these very performances that provide the musicians income. Currently, most governments have not offered much in the form of financial support to their respective self-employed arts sector. You can help! While on lockdown we ask you to consider that instead of the jazz concert ...
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Place a Livestream Jazz Calendar On Your Website Or Blog and help promote livestream jazz events
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Michael Ricci
You can help spread the word about livestream jazz concerts by placing the Jazz Near You livestream widget or feed on your website or blog. Simply go here, click the “By Livestream" down arrow, set the two parameters (number of columns and number of events), then click the GENERATE CODE button. From there, copy and paste the code onto your website or blog page. If you use Wordpress, you may need to install the Wordpress plug-in Code Embed. We also ...
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Jazz Near You supports & promotes livestream events. Upload them today.
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Michael Ricci
COVID-19 and its impact represents an extraordinary and unprecedented time for us all. It has affected every person and every organization in jazz, disrupted our livelihoods, and we're all greatly concerned about the health and well-being of our community. Personally, I'm accustomed to working from home and have been doing so since 1995—but our network and touchpoints extend far beyond AAJ HQ. As a central source for all things jazz, we are in constant communication with individuals representing all facets ...
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Second Live Broadcast A Success: All About Jazz Livestream Support Continues
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Michael Ricci
Building on the technology that made it possible to broadcast the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Concert at the Kennedy Center last April, All About Jazz presented its second live broadcast on Saturday, March 21 at the Candlelight Lounge in Trenton, NJ. Unlike the NEA event which was presented sitewide, the Candlelight livestream was limited to the Trenton, Philadelphia and Bethlehem Jazz Near You websites. In collaboration with Front Row Seat Productions and powered by Streaming Video Provider, ...
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Feature A Song From Your Latest Album At All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Musicians and record labels can greatly raise the awareness of their new releases by participating in All About Jazz's Song of the Day program. Song of the Day is a free service and an effective way to promote an artist, promote a new album and drive album sales. Submit Song—Raise Awareness—Drive Traffic Leverage All About Jazz's reach and relevancy by submitting a full-length MP3 to our song of the day program. If approved, your featured song will raise the awareness ...
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All About Jazz Improves Album Content—Now Supports Leaders, Co-Leaders And Side Personnel
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz greatly improved how we handle album personnel—making it easier for readers to discover “who played on what." To best illustrate how we (now) present personnel on an album, check out Pat Metheny's From This Place. Scroll to the personnel section to view the new look which includes the musician's name, their photo and their instrument. The name and photo is hotlinked to the musician's page at All About Jazz. We also improved how we present personnel on ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: January 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 tracks featured in January, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS Come In Funky Tobin Mueller From: Come in Funky 4:18 The Silent Cry James Hill ...
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How To Create or Update Your All About Jazz Musician Page
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All About Jazz
Home to over 144,000 musician pages and representing the largest database of its kind on the internet, All About Jazz is uniquely positioned to support jazz professionals worldwide. In an effort to help our musician community maximize the benefits of our growing platform, we've published a how-to guide outlining our various services. The document below explains how to establish a presence at All About Jazz by claiming & updating a musician page or creating one from scratch. A musician page ...
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