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The George Shearing Quintet: All About Jazz Playlist
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
All About Jazz's My iTunes Playlists are designed to help music lovers compile their own “best of" iPod playlists or CDR compilations. Here is the playlist I constructed to help introduce new listeners to what I consider to be the best of the classic George Shearing Quintet's best available recordings. The great pianist George Shearing (1919-2011) helmed a classic jazz quintet from 1949 through 1978. The best of these recordings were made while Shearing was contracted with Capitol between 1955 ...
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Who Listens to Jazz
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Michael Ricci
There is an old Indian legend about several blind men examining an elephant. Each examines a different part of the creature and comes to a completely dissimilar conclusion as to what it is. Then the elephant, in a state of musth, stomps the helpless bastards to death to get at a '67 VW Microbus he mistakes for a particularly attractive female. The moral of the story is not to let handicapped people screw around with elephants. But like that story, ...
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Fund Drive Dollars at Work: Share an iTunes Playlist with AAJ!
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Michael Ricci
Musicians, contributors, members, journalists and industry professionals are invited to to submit one of their favorite iTunes playlists to All About Jazz. Uploading a playlist takes just a minute, and if accepted, we'll share it with the AAJ community as a published article. We'll also associate your playlist with your profile. Have a great playlist to share? Upload it here. Tip: Shoot for 10-20 songs and try to keep it under 70 minutes. Any style of music is fine. Enjoy! ...
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All About Jazz Introduces New Local Ad Space
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Michael Ricci
Advertisers can geo-target local AAJ readers by purchasing an ad in the new 200x90 pixel space located in the JAZZ CALENDAR box on each page. All About Jazz's calendar is one of its most popular sections and advertisers have a captive audience on each page with both the 728x90 pixel leaderboard and AAJ's new and very affordable 200x90 option at $4CPM. 200x90 Pixel | View Size Calendar (for local ads only)$4 CPM ...
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