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Recent All About Jazz Enhancements
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Michael Ricci
We're retooling All About Jazz with new features--we're also streamlining our interface. Here are the most recent changes to the website:
Listening Party / Album Stream
You can now stream our featured weekly album in its entirety from AAJ--just click the “Album Stream" link under “AUDIO & VIDEO" on the navigation bar or scroll down the right side of any AAJ page. More about the AAJ Listening Party.
News Center
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Robben Ford's "Indianola" - First Track to Top 1,000 Downloads in a Single Day
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Michael Ricci
Guitarist Robben Ford's track “Indianola“ from Soul on Ten (Concord Music Group, 2009) was the first MP3 at All About Jazz to top 1,000 downloads in a single day, reaching 1,216.
To download more free music, visit our Free MP3 page. We currently offer AAJ members over 60 pages of quality music.
All About Jazz has offered a free daily download since November 2005 from artists spanning all genres of jazz including Gary Burton, Wayne Krantz, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Brian Blade, ...
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Attn: Photographers! New AAJ Photo Gallery Testers Wanted
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Michael Ricci
Dear Fellow Photographers,
All About Jazz is nearing the completion of our new photo gallery and we're looking for a handful of testers that can help us find bugs and give us their impressions on our software (features, ease of use, missing functionality, etc.)
We're looking for testers that can dedicate a couple of hours a week of quality testing time which means putting our software through its paces. You'd work directly with AAJ's lead programmer (and gallery developer) Mike ...
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"Careers in Jazz" Featured at The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
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Michael Ricci
Producer, presenter, journalist, broadcaster, educator, arts consultant, and arts administrator, Willard Jenkins voices his opinion on Bill Anschell's “Careers in Jazz“ article at his blog, The Independent Ear: Pianist-composer and humorist Bill Anschell (Google this guy and that’s exactly the heading for his billanschell.com web site) recently posted perhaps his most comprehensively dark humor piece yet, at All About Jazz. (It should be noted here that Bill Sent The Independent Ear a copy of the piece at the approximate ...
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Bill Anschell's Notes from the Lobby: A New Column at All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz has launched a new column in collaboration with musician, composer, writer and humorist, Bill Anschell. You can read Bill's latest “Notes from the Lobby" installment “Careers in Jazz“ (published yesterday) along with his archive here.
Bill Anschell's Notes from the Lobby Careers in Jazz Notes from the Lobby Jazz Jam Sessions: A First-Timer's Guide Jazz Math More About Bill
Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, ...
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