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18,000 Musician Profiles at All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
AAJ now hosts more than 18,000 musician profiles at our Musician Center.
Like MySpace, jazz musicians can create a free profile at All About Jazz, submit calendar information, share photos, present MP3s, embed videos, post news, make their teaching information available to students, add their MySpace, Facebook and Twitter links, and much more. AAJ musician profiles rank high on a Google search and drive traffic. We also feature a daily musician and syndicate jazz birthdays around the web.
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Related Links Added to AAJ News Announcements and Articles
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Michael Ricci
Look for several related musician links at the end of a news announcement or article at All About Jazz. Prior to today, we included just the musician's website link--we now include their MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Website, blog, and other links associated with their musician profile. (See example below.)
If you're a musician, please add the related links to your profile. If you're a musician and currently do not have a profile, please create one today. Our service is free.
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AAJ Photo Gallery Improvements
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Michael Ricci
We've made several improvements to our new photo gallery which was launched on October 11th (read about it here).
Recent photo gallery improvements include: 22,000 images imported from the old photo gallery More tagged images (over 80% of our images are now tagged) Sequential scrolling between images Filter by professional photos Filter by most viewed photos Show total number of images in each user's gallery Expanded “Recent Additions By" list to 20 Photo protection ...
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Bill Dixon Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings Now Featured at AAJ Gallery
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Michael Ricci
Trumpeter-composer Bill Dixon (b. October 5, 1925) might, over the past year or so, be getting much-deserved notoriety in the music press for his orchestral suites (Seventeen Musicians in Search of a Sound; Tapestries for Small Orchestra) and collaboration with Rob Mazurek and the Exploding Star Orchestra. However, his visual art--while adorning the covers of numerous albums in his discography--still is often not seen in its own light. AAJ is pleased to offer several of Dixon's paintings, lithographs and drawings, ...
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Ask Mr. P.C. - New Musician Etiquette Column at All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
Attn: Musicians!
You're invited to participate in AAJ's new etiquette column, “Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette and Bandstand Decorum."
Read our October questions and answers here.
Have a question for Mr. P.C.? Send it to him here.
Have fun!
About Mr. P.C.
Inspired by the cutting edge advice of Abigail Van Buren, the storied bass playing of Paul Chambers, and the need for a Politically Correct doctrine for navigating the minefields of jazz etiquette, I humbly offer ...
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