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Attention Members: MY AAJ Profile Changes

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

We've made the following improvements to your MY AAJ profile page: Created separate pages for your favorites: artists, contributors, columns, genres and websites. Placed links to your favorites in the “Favorite" bar across the top of your profile. Increased the number of article comments from five to ten. Added a Facebook link. Added a MY AAJ member search box. You can now contact fellow MY AAJ members direct from their profile page. You can update your profile by clicking the ...

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Choose Your Favorite Musicians at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

You can add musicians to your “favorites" list by clicking the link under the “Favorites" section on a musician's profile page.

Here is an example of a musician profile prior to selection...

and after selection...

Select a favorite musician and: have musician-related content delivered to your MY AAJ page create a “Favorites" performance calendar become eligible for all musician-related contest giveaways receive new release announcements, get free MP3 downloads, and receive concert date information. So choose your favorites ...

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JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2008: Extensive Coverage at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

In recent years, Vestnorsk Jazzsenter (VNJS, Western Norway Jazz Center) has been inviting journalists, festival organizers/programmers, club owners and others to a week-long event, JazzNorway in a Nutshell.

Intended to promote Norwegian music and, with a series of boat trips, the country's unparalleled natural beauty, the 2008 edition began in Bergen and slowly made its way to Stavanger, where the Mai Jazz festival was in full swing. At Mai Jazz, JazzNorway in a Nutshell attendees were exposed to the rich ...

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Get More Jazz News Direct from a Musician's Profile Page

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

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

Musician? If you haven't yet created a (free) musician profile, go here to get ...

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All About Jazz, Chase Utley and the USA Today

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

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

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

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

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

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

Source: All About Jazz
May 10, 2008

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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