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What's New @ shop.allaboutjazz.com

Source: Michael Ricci
July 7, 2010

Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Short Subject Collection (6 DVDs)--$49.98 An amazing collection of short features from 1930 to '47 by great performers and ensembles, gathered in this jaw-dropping assemblage from the Warner Bros.' vault at a great price. This one-of-a-kind, 11+-hours, 6-Disc collection of 63 theatrical shorts is rescues many wonderful performances as well as considerable nostalgia. “Those bands with dynamic high-energy front men, like Cab Calloway and Louis Prima, are ...

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New Columns at All About Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
July 6, 2010

All About Jazz has recently launched the following columns for your reading pleasure: Unsung HeroesBy vocalist/pianist Sean Dietrich The Art Of The Artist To Fan RelationshipBy ArtistShare founder Brian Camelio Afrobeat DiariesBy resident expert Chris May JazzLife UKBy photo journalist Bruce Lindsay Built to Sound By guitarist Jack Huntley

And though they aren't exactly new, these columns we're ...

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AAJ Service Outage on July 4th

Source: Michael Ricci
July 5, 2010

Dear friends,

All About Jazz experienced a hardware crash on July 4th and was unable to restore the database changes from the last 24 hours. That means all articles submitted/edited, all news announcements submitted/edited, all photos uploaded, all new registrations and other various updates were lost.

For website contributors, you'll need to edit or submit your articles again.

For everyone else, if you signed up yesterday, please create your MY AAJ account again. If you added your company's listing to ...

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125 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2010

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All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 24,000 Profiles

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2010

The All About Jazz Musician Center is growing by the day and has just eclipsed 24,000 musician profiles. AAJ profiles work a little like Wikipedia, where musicians, fans, industry folks can create and maintain them. Most of the profiles are created by an individual, but we now create skeleton profiles from CD reviews and calendar date submissions. We're asking musicians and readers to claim unfinished profiles to contribute bios, upload photos, insert videos, and add their knowledge.

To request access ...

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All About Jazz Wins 9th Consecutive JJA Jazz Award

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

R.J. DeLuke [pictured] attended yesterday's JJA Jazz Awards at the City Winery in New York and accepted the award on behalf of the website. R.J. has contributed interviews and live reviews to AAJ since 1999 and covered the 2009 Buenos Aires Jazz Festival. He's been an integral part of the website for over a decade and his words have helped shape AAJ's editorial direction.

AAJ would like to thank the Jazz Journalist Association for recognizing our ongoing efforts and we'd ...

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Attention: Publicists! Place Your AAJ Coverage Widget on Your Website or Blog

Source: Michael Ricci
May 24, 2010

All About Jazz has developed a way for you to directly link to client coverage at your website or blog. To get your AAJ coverage widget, go to your publicity firm listing page (search here), click the widget icon, then copy/paste the code to a location at your website. AAJ will automatically update your widget's content each time we publish an article about one of your clients. Related Article Attention: Publicists! Tips to Freely ...

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New All About Jazz Featured Stories Box

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

We converted the home page Featured Stories box from Flash to jQuery, because Flash was obstructing our new dropdown menus in Internet Explorer and we wanted a functional slideshow to appear on an iPhone.

We increased the number of featured stories from five to six, and you must now click either on the article title or the larger photo to view the article. Clicking a thumbnail allows you to navigate within the box, but it will not hotlink to the ...

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