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All About Jazz: Year in review and looking ahead!
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All About Jazz
Dear friends, What a magnificent year! In 2013, we transformed All About Jazz to expand coverage, improve ease of use, and make it more useful to all our readers. Jazz Near You took a major step forward with the release of the Jazz Near You app. Fans from 250 cities worldwide receive our event information across every major device type—and we're just scratching the surface of Jazz Near You's potential! We're also ending 2013 on a high note with the ...
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Take the Jazz Near You Survey
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All About Jazz
If you attend live jazz events, please take our ten question / two minute Jazz Near You survey. >> Click here to get started Your participation is much appreciated! Thank you! About Jazz Near You Jazz Near You is a website, a weekly calendar of events email, an app, an embeddable widget and a series of RSS feeds serving close to 250 cities worldwide. The Jazz Near You events calendar email is distributed to over 150,000 subscribers every Wednesday. The ...
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Help spread the word about Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Your friends at All About Jazz are spreading the word about Jazz Near You and we'd really appreciate your help in introducing JNY to your social and professional networks, especially if you are actively involved with your local jazz community (presenters, venue owners, musicians, educators, etc.) We've included four standard notes for your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, jazz mailing list, and an email reply to a gig announcement. For Facebook and Twitter users For musician use: Post your gigs for ...
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Five Promotional Opportunities for Jazz Professionals
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz offers both free and paid promotional opportunities to help musicians reach the largest jazz audience on the internet. 1. Promote Yourself The first step to promoting yourself at All About Jazz is to create a musician profile. If your musician profile already exists in our database, claim it, then maintain it. The most effective profile is a complete profile, so be sure to add as much information as possible. Click here to view an example of a ...
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Jazz Near You Calendar Expands Event Options Beyond Concert Performances
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All About Jazz
The Jazz Near You calendar now supports events beyond concert performances to include the following types: Art exhibition Award show Book signing Concert performance Conference (e.g. Jazz Education Network, SF Music Tech, etc.) Jam session Lecture Master class Social gathering (e.g. a listening party) Just select the appropriate event type on the submission form. Submitting events Users can submit single and recurring events via our submission form. Users can upload several events at once via our .csv upload ...
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All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz presents a new column under the banner Rethinking Jazz Cultures—a monthly series of interviews by Ian Patterson with some of the leading thinkers in jazz today. Though New Jazz Studies is in fact 25-years old, there is a burgeoning growth in academic jazz research on a global level. The Rethinking Jazz Cultures monthly column is inspired by the work of the three-year, pan-European Rhythm Changes project, which in a nutshell, questions jazz and national identities. What began ...
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All About Jazz Update: News From the Publisher (October 2013)
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All About Jazz
With so many improvements and changes happening at AAJ and Jazz Near You, I wanted to give you a quick update: We relaunched the All About Jazz forum. It’s much improved with enhanced functionality and much faster. We welcome old friends back and invite new friends to join us. We also created two new “tools and tips” forums: one for our staff and one for musicians and presenters. Please check them out when you get a chance. We upgraded the ...
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Jazz Near You App Upgrade - Change Locations Option Added
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All About Jazz
With version 1.1 of the Jazz Near You iOS app, users can change locations to view events happening in other cities. London users can view events in Paris and Paris users can view events in New York City and so on. Have fun checking out jazz scenes in far away or not so far away places. The Jazz Near You app is designed for both iPhone and iPad. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod ...
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