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Jazz Near You Calendar Expands Event Options Beyond Concert Performances

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2013

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

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2013

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)

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2013

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

Source: All About Jazz
September 24, 2013

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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100,000 Events Submitted to Jazz Near You Since 2012 Launch

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2013

Jazz Near You surpassed 100,000 jazz events submitted to our website since it first launched this time last year. The Jazz Near You platform has grown steadily over the last 12 months to include nearly 250 websites, a weekly local events calendar, an app for iPad and iPhone, a widget (by city, by venue and by musician) and XML feeds (for musicians and cities). Events are submitted via the submission form and the form itself can accept both single and ...

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All About Jazz Forum relaunches! New and much improved!

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2013

We have great news! The All About Jazz forum is back and better than ever. For longtime members, welcome back! For those not familiar with the bulletin board, please check it out here: forums.allaboutjazz.com We apologize for the protracted outage and explain what happened here. Forum membership requires a separate registration as the vBulletin forum software is not integrated with the All About Jazzz website. To keep it simple, we recommend using your website username and password when signing up ...

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Jazz Near You's 'Change Cities' Feature Improved!

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2013

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All About Jazz Improves Wallpaper Advertising Service -- Introduces New 300x100 Pixel Banner

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2013

Wallpaper Improvements All About Jazz improved its wallpaper advertising service by adding the wallpaper to Jazz Near You and locking the wallpaper in place so the reader continues to see the ad as they scroll down the page. Click the image below to view the actual size of the wallpaper ad as it appears on the All About Jazz home page:

Wallpaper design specifications