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Get More Jazz News Direct from a Musician's Profile Page
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All About Jazz readers can now access recent news items associated with a musician direct from their profile page. Click the “News" link on the Musician Profile “Index" bar or scroll down the page to the news section (just below “Related Aricles"). We show the three most recent news items associated with the musician.
For examples, see the following profiles: Rob Mullins Omar Sosa Vinson Valega
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All About Jazz, Chase Utley and the USA Today
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This article appeared as part of the cover story in the May 14-20, 2008 issue of USA Today's Sports Weekly.
Chasin' the Hits: AllAboutJazz.com reviewed phoney CD by Chase Utley
JAZZ CD HOAX ILLUSTRATES DIFFERENT SIDE OF CHASE
He hits home runs and makes All-Star teams, drives in runs and wins Silver Slugger awards, speaks out on global warming and rescues mistreated animals. Is there anything Chase Utley can't do?
Even his closest friends were taken aback last month when ...
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Legendary Pianist Ahmad Jamal Profiled at AAJ
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All About Jazz
When asked what he's thinking about when he's at the piano, NEA Jazz Master and Kennedy Center Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal replies, “Those songs that come up on my recordings or my concerts, sometimes I pull some things that are very distant and written years before I was here, things written by Mozart. That's the wonderful thing about music, the ability to interpret the good things beyond the wildest dreams of the composer. I'm doing what I do based on ...
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Trumpeter Nicholas Payton Intrerviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton started out years ago as a musician known for being steeped in the traditions of his New Orleans origins. The “young lion" of about fifteen years ago had a brash, bold sound. He even produced a Luis Armstrong tribute--Dear Louis (Verve, 2001)--and did an album working with the classy Armstrong contemporary Doc Cheatham - Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton (Verve, 1997). But he continued to grow and explore other avenues, showing contemporary influences with the release of ...
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My AAJ Member Tips - Complete Your Profile
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Please take a moment and complete your MY AAJ member profile page. Enter your bio, add your desert island picks, select your favorite musicians and favorite AAJ contributors, enter your zip code (to view local calendar information, local news, local venues), embed your favorite YouTube videos and much more. You can also search for other profiles and view what your fellow members are listening to or consider essential recordings. You can access your profile page by clicking the “Your Profile" ...
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Submit Your RSS Feed to AAJ
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All About Jazz is now accepting RSS feed submissions for inclusion in our News Center. If you have an existing RSS feed and are looking for additional exposure through AAJ's free syndication services, you can submit your link to us for consideration. AAJ also provides a link back to the feed source in every news item we post. (example) Submitting a feed link is easy... Go to our “Guides" section, and either request update access to your existing company profile ...
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