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Local Jazz Events On Demand!
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All About Jazz
Users can email themselves an up-to-the-minute jazz events calendar at any time Jazz Near You has developed a convenient way for non-registered and non-subscribed users to receive local jazz event information via email. TRY IT NOW Until recently, users had to scroll the website calendar or download the app to access event information. Over the past year, options have expanded to include an RSS feed subscription, an iCal file, an event widget, a weekly Jazz Near You eblast subscription, and ...
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All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 70,000 Profiles
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, stewards of the largest jazz database on the internet, is now home to over 70,000 jazz musician profiles. A veritable who's who directory, the Jazz Musician Database includes musician profiles ranging from legendary figures like Miles Davis, to today's stars like Pat Metheny, to emerging artists like Ambrose Akinmusire. Musician/band profiles include biographical information, links, videos, audio players, discographies, photographs, a calendar of events, (free) MP3s, teaching information, an Amazon store widget, and is integrated with All ...
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All About Jazz Expands Advertising Service
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has added a handful of new options to their already robust list of promotional services to help advertisers reach the largest collection of jazz fans and professionals on the internet. In addition to standard banner advertising, new album Showcase, and a geo-targeted Jazz Near You email sponsorship, AAJ has recently added or improved the following services: Amazon Search Widget Sponsorship We've repurposed our Amazon search widget (see right) as an advertising vehicle to help musicians and record ...
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News Returns to All About Jazz Home Page
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has added a news section to its home page to highlight the most recent industry announcements and press releases. Located below the “Articles" box, readers can quickly scan headlines and access recent, popular and website-related news without visiting news.allaboutjazz.com. Publicist? News maker? Submit your press release or news announcement to All About Jazz. Though the service is free, users must register and receive permission to post. AAJ news will transition to a pay service in early 2015. ...
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New Advertising Option at All About Jazz Leverages Amazon Store Widget
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has repurposed its Amazon store widget (see right) as an advertising vehicle to help musicians and record labels sell their music. “The Amazon store widget is nearly twice as tall as the 300x250 medium rectangle banner and includes the added benefit of promoting and selling multiple album titles in an interface designed to facilitate sales," said All About Jazz Founder, Michael Ricci. “In many ways it's superior to the banner: it's fixed location, it's persistent, and it ...
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Four Time-Saving Tips when uploading your events at Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You improves regularly and we're particularly focused on improving ease of use. Here are three time-saving tips to consider when uploading your next round of events: Upload Recurring Events Did you know that you can upload up to 16 recurring events at once on the Jazz Near You event submission form? Here's how: Click the first date in the calendar box, set the time, the price (if applicable), then click on the recurring dates. We've selected every Saturday ...
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Counting Down the Top 14 Jazz MP3s for 2014
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All About Jazz
We're counting down the top 14 MP3s featured at All About Jazz in 2014 starting with Drayen Labie's “Kissa i Lé." Readers can follow the countdown from our Download of the Day page where we'll announce the #1 downloaded track on January 2nd. Fiona Ord-Shrimpton, All About Jazz's Download of the Day editor stated, “Another year passes as we give thanks to so many musicians whose formidable musical outputs continue to excite, amuse and challenge us. Download of the Day ...
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2015 Jazz Birthday Calendar Now Available at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, home to the largest database of jazz musician birthdays has launched a new calendar that allows users to view birthdays in a monthly calendar style format. The website will continue to offer a sequential list by day along with its new calendar that highlights its most popular musician profiles. The musician whose profile has received the most page views is highlighted with a thumbnail image for that particular day. So Happy Birthday, Chris Potter! Musician? To be ...
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