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Jazz Near You: Our Clean Data Initiative
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All About Jazz
With the impending launch of the highly anticipated Jazz Near You website, I want to address a few related topics as we prepare to go live with the website and mobile app. Our service is only as reliable as the content entered. As a crowd-sourcing website and with no paid staff to verify entered data, we rely on you to make sure that what you enter is accurate, complete and professional. We hope to recruit local advocates to help us ...
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ACT Music Week at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
We continue our celebration of ACT Music with a free MP3 from the Vijay Iyer Trio's latest release Accelerando. Not familiar with ACT Music? Read Jakob Baekgaard's profile “ACT: 20 Years of Magical Music“ published earlier this week. Download “Lude" and five other free MP3s from ACT Music.
Lude (4:54) Vijay Iyer From: Accelerando (ACT Music) Featured: 2012-0 The Moon, The Stars And You (3:28) Nils Landgren From: The Moon, ...
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Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles Links Moved
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All About Jazz
Two navigation changes to All About Jazz The “Events" option on the navigation bar (above) will soon change to “Near You" and link directly to the Jazz Near You website. In anticipation of this change, we've moved the Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles links to the CD Review Center and Article Center respectively. To access the Upcoming Releases Schedule: Click “Articles" on the navigation bar; Click “CD Reviews" in the dropdown menu; Click “Future Releases."
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Jazz Near You / All About Jazz Calendar-Related Upgrades
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All About Jazz
We made two significant improvements to the event submission process and we fixed a bug. Improvements We relaxed the CSV file upload rules. All events are now uploaded regardless of a venue match. If city and state are included, we'll determine longitude and latitude so your events will still appear in our local calendar, our weekly email blast and our phone app. We've improved the flow of submitting a single event. We now invoke an overlay window if you attempt ...
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All About Jazz Top 5 MP3 Downloads: August 2012
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features and syndicates an exceptional song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 31 tracks featured in August, these five represent our personal favorites. We also included the top five reader favorites as indicated by total downloads.
If you are a musician or record label, you can submit your full length MP3 for consideration here.
Enjoy!
Editor's Picks Nu Vil Eg Enn I Nafni Thinu
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All About Jazz Design Improvements: Repositioned Social Sharing and Recommend Buttons
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All About Jazz
In addition to restyling article pagination and increasing the font size of our article text, we also repositioned the social sharing and recommend buttons—they now anchor the left side of our pages. We also changed the style of our “Recommend" button and our “I'm Interested" button to a blue “thumbs up" button. The new recommend button looks like this: The old recommend button looked like this: If you read an article, download an MP3, view a photo, view an event... ...
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