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Musicians: Build Your Fanbase at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 1, 2012

Musicians can build their fanbase through their profile pages at All About Jazz. A musician's All About Jazz following is a collection of fans, friends, and professionals that have an interest in your music. It's part LinkedIn and part Facebook, but exclusively for jazz people. Once an All About Jazz member “tracks" you, you can send them announcements about upcoming album releases, upcoming events, and other related news. Invite friends and colleagues to track you by sharing your musician profile ...

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Attention: Publicists! Syndicate Your Announcements via RSS, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and All About Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
January 1, 2012

All About Jazz has developed a simple solution for you to freely syndicate your jazz-related news announcements and press releases for maximum exposure. Follow these simple steps and your blog posts will appear in your RSS feed, on your Twitter page, at Jazz News Central and get syndicated around the web via our own syndication feeds and our news widget. Seven Steps To Syndication: If you don't already have a blog with an RSS feed, sign up at Blogger: blogger.com. ...

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Blue Whale Residency Part I: Anthony Wilson Trio, LA Jazz Quartet, Otto / Ferber / Wilson / Ferber / Nelson / Dumas

Source: Los Angeles Jazz Collective
January 1, 2012

LAJC Residency, Part I Wednesday, January 4, 8pm Blue Whale, Los Angeles, CA In the music-art world there are a number of ways to program events. Two of the most common are festivals and residencies. Festivals essentially allow a promoter to present a diversity of bands and artists over a concentrated amount of time, be it a weekend, a week, or a month, but the benefit is to be able to promote a lot of music ...

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Quiescence Music Kicks Off New Year with Free Lesson and Book!

Source: Edward Weiss
January 1, 2012

A New Year is here. And to celebrate, the online piano lessons site QuiescenceMusic.com is giving away a free piano lesson and book that promises to teach adults how to improvise and compose their own music. The website, owned and operated by pianist/composer Edward Weiss has been a steady staple since Weiss launched the site in 2000. When asked about his free giveaways Weiss responds: “I want as many people as possible to sample the beautiful style of music known ...

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Opinion

Matthew Shipp Counts His Blessings for 2011

Source: Chris Rich
January 1, 2012

Matthew Shipp's ten highlights of the year 1.The reception of my cd ”Art of the Improviser”. 2. Gigging with my trio with Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey,not only great players, but incredible people to share road life with. 3. Recording my upcoming 2012 CD Elastic Aspects with my trio of Bisio and Dickey. 4. Continuing to upset the applecart of the jazz establishment—the more they can't figure me out, the better off I am, I relish it, fuck them. 5. ...

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The New Singer's Jazz Series Spring Fling in Toronto

Source: Julie McGregor
January 1, 2012

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All About Jazz's Tops in Content: 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
January 1, 2012

All About Jazz's technology allows us to monitor various website activity, like tracking how many times an article is read or how many times an MP3 is downloaded. Here are our various 2011 “top" lists for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! Top MP3 Downloads Top Read CD Reviews Top Recommended CD Reviews Top Read Articles Top Recommended Articles Click here if you missed our Year in Review article. And click here to view our current list of “Best of 2011" lists. ...

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Enter the "Joan Stiles - Three Musicians" CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
January 1, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Oo-Bla-Dee “Joan Stiles—Three Musicians“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on January 31st. Click here to enter the contest (Following Joan Stiles at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Oo-Bla-Dee Music “Stiles, drummer Matt Wilson and saxophonist Joel Frahm overlap, contrast, collide and collude with one another in complementary fashion as they create music full ...

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