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Jazz Near You receives grant from Philadelphia Fund For Jazz Legacy and Innovation
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All About Jazz
The Painted Bride Art Center in collaboration with the Philadelphia Fund For Jazz Legacy & Innovation have designated Jazz Near You a grant recipient to fund a Jazz New Year promotional campaign in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. “I'd like to thank the Painted Bride Art Center, the Philadelphia Jazz Project and the Philadelphia Foundation for their ongoing support of Jazz Near You. It's a tremendous honor and the grant will go a long way in helping us raise the awareness ...
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The All About Jazz Musician Profile Now Supports An Embedded Bandcamp Album
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All About Jazz
Musicians can now place their Bandcamp album on their All About Jazz musician profile page by embedding the album code in the Bandcamp box under the “Audio" tab on their musician profile edit form. Example: To place your Bandcamp album on your musician profile page, go your Bandcamp page, click the “Share / Embed" link, click the first object to the right of “Embed this album," select the small widget (100% x 42px), then paste the code into this box. ...
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Map of Today's Jazz Events Added to Jazz Near You home page
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You now represents today's events on a map with pin drops highlighting their locations. “Though there's still plenty of development work ahead, we're starting to move beyond foundational programming for the website, which is freeing us up to experiment with new features like mapping your way to jazz events," enthuses Michael Ricci, Jazz Near You's founder. Users can click on a pin drop to get title and venue information, and then click the pop up window for event ...
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All About Jazz Improves Article Navigation
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All About Jazz
The cats and kittens down in All About Jazz R&D have been hard at work improving how we navigate between articles. The latest round of upgrades includes quicker access to previous and next articles along with a slide out teaser box on every article page. View this example The previous and next buttons cycle through articles published before or after the one you're viewing. You can invoke the slide out teaser box by scrolling to the bottom of the page. ...
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JazzNearYou.com Relaunches with a Bold New Look, Brand New Features, and Improved Submission Forms
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You relaunched with a bold new look, improved navigation, an international friendly event submission form, and an “Add to Calendar" option. “Our new design is more modern and is responsive across all screens sizes," said Jazz Near You and All About Jazz Founder, Michael Ricci. “In addition to the visual improvements, we took extra care in crafting the interface—it's more intuitive and easier to navigate. We (now) fully explain each facet of the Jazz Near You platform on ...
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All About Jazz Expands Publishing Platform to Include Quarterly Magazine
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All About Jazz
Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz, the web’s leading destination for jazz news, has teamed with Dutch based MFM Media to produce a quarterly jazz magazine through the Issuu.com publishing platform. Each issue reflects choice content previously published at All About Jazz with strong consideration given to connected material. For instance, the first issue focuses on the legendary Wayne Shorter. In addition to the interview with Shorter, All About Jazz talks to trumpeter Wallace Roney about his desire to perform ...
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Jazz Near You App Upgrade - Includes Musician Thumbnails, Event Submission Form, and is iOS 7 Compatible!
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All About Jazz
Celebrate the New Year by downloading version 1.2 of the Jazz Near You iOS app. With the latest version, users can view thumbnail images of the musician associated with an event, and musicians and presenters can submit events direct from the app. The latest version is also iOS7 compatible! The Jazz Near You app is designed for both iPhone and iPad. Requirements: Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. FEATURES View local events by date, ...
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A Special Thank You to All About Jazz's Sponsors
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All About Jazz
Please join us in thanking and supporting the forward-thinking businesses that sponsored All About Jazz and our sister website Jazz Near You in 2013: ECM Records Mack Avenue Records Nonesuch Records Motema Records Jazz Cruise, LLC Jazz at Lincoln Center Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Curaçao North Sea Jazz Festival SFJAZZ UCLA Live Apollo Theater Painted Bride ...
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