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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: February 2019
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All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in February, 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 Secret Treetop Annie Chen From: Secret Treetop 8:10 At Beenleigh Marcus Penrose From: Aurelius- ...
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Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians
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Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician and use GigPress, please send Michael Ricci your website URL. Your Gigpress RSS feed location is typically located here: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?feed=gigpress. States Ricci, “WordPress is ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: January 2019
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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 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 The Lotus Blossom Dave Young From: Lotus Blossom 05:26 Fifth Movement Kenny Werner From: ...
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All About Jazz / Jazz Near You Improvements: January 2019
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We document the improvements we make to both All About Jazz and Jazz Near You and when improvements come fast, we'll post an announcement to let our readers, members, a fund drive supporters know what's happening. In addition to publishing gobs of glorious content, we were heads down retooling the platform: both in appearance and functionality. The list below details the work completed since the beginning of the month: Press release distribution service upgrade (explained here); Improved searching: Search Album ...
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All About Jazz Improves Press Release Distribution Service
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All About Jazz has improved its press release / news announcement distribution service to further raise the awareness of each published announcement as well as raise the awareness of source. Recent improvements include: Support of large / header photo (example); Improved handling of pull quote author; News source is identified in the MORE NEWS section; An additional announcement is included in the MORE NEWS section; Improved appearance of “News" tab on publicity firm's page (example); Search for announcements by publicity ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: December 2018
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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 December, 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 Ancient Kings David Friesen From: My Faith, My Life 3:34 Kerrara Vincent Houdijk From: ...
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All About Jazz Improves Premium Musician Page Service: Modern Page, More Promotion, Free Spotlight ad
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All About Jazz has improved its premium musician page service to include a splashier new page design, more promotional opportunities, and for a limited time, a free event spotlight ad (a $40/value). Improved Page The stylish new design is a marked improvement over the previous design. It utilizes a more modern template, is bold in its presentation an rivals even professionally designed musician websites. The page itself is easier to navigate and for page administrators, easier to maintain. More Exposure ...
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All About Jazz Celebrates the NEA Jazz Masters
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All About Jazz, home to largest database of jazz musicians on the internet, now recognizes the NEA Jazz Masters on a dedicated page as well as on the recipient's musician page (example). 145 musicians have been honored since 1982 and they are all identified and accessible from the All About Jazz musician section by clicking “NEA Jazz Masters" in the “View by" dropdown box. The 2018 NEA Jazz Masters are: Joanne Brackeen: Pianist, Composer, Educator Pat Metheny: Guitarist, Composer, Educator ...
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