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Adopt and maintain a Musician Page at All About Jazz
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz hosts over 148,000 musician pages, aiming to create a profile for every jazz musician worldwide. While some pages are complete and current (fantastic!), others need updates or are incomplete (not fantastic!). We invite passionate fans, musicians, publicists, managers, promoters, and family members to help maintain these pages. From global icons (living or deceased) to local legends, join All About Jazz in building the most comprehensive online jazz musician database for everyone to enjoy. How Can I Help, ...
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Collaborative Jazz Trio Multi Mansions Releases Its Debut Album, Vehicles, On May 8th
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Mike Lorenz
Vehicle (noun) a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something. The collaborative Avant-jazz trio, MULTI MANSIONS, are releasing their debut album, vehicles, on Earth Day 2020 to all streaming and digital platforms. A band that started as a sonic homage to late great Avant-guitar hero Sonny Sharrock, MULTI MANSIONS’ debut showcases a band poised to make waves with their inspired sound. Vehicles is now available for digital pre-order on the band’s Bandcamp page where fans can stream the lead-off ...
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CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Canceled For June 19-27. Producers Working To Reschedule Festival To Fall 2020
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Dalmath Associates Inc.
CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Producers Marc Iacona and John Nugent announced today that the festival's 19th edition, originally scheduled for June 19-27, will be canceled on those dates due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but that they are working hard to reschedule the festival to fall of 2020. Iacona and Nugent said, “In the past two weeks since we announced our 2020 festival lineup, our world has been turned upside down. The health crisis we are experiencing has resulted ...
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Alfredo Dias Gomes Releases His First Album Entirely Dedicated To Jazz
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Alfredo Dias Gomes
The restless drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes is back, with a new solo album, his 12th, now diving in an old passion: jazz, especially the world-famous classics. Alongside great musicians (Jessé Sadoc, trumpet / Widor Santiago, tenor sax / Jefferson Lescowich, bass / Lulu Martin, keyboard), Alfredo Dias Gomes is releasing Jazz Standards, his first album exclusively dedicated to jazz. Recorded in his own studio, the release is now available, as a physical CD and download on CD Baby, and on ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: March 2020
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in March, these ten represent our reader favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! TOP TRACKS Motion Doug Stone From: Motion 4:35 Lonely Hearts Petr Cancura From: Another Way Home 6:22 Blackfoot Blueprint, Greg Snedeker
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All About Jazz to Broadcast Live From Our Living Rooms: An Online Music Festival and Fundraiser
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Michael Ricci
Thanks, in part, to our own fund drive, All About Jazz & Jazz Near You have pivoted to support livestream jazz events. The transformation, which started ten days ago, has a singular purpose: to raise awareness of livestream jazz events worldwide and help boost ticket sales or tip jar donations. We also built on the broadcasting work we started with last year's NEA Jazz Masters celebration concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This rapid development made it possible ...
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Identify your venue or festival as a livestreamer at Jazz Near You
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Michael Ricci
As part of All About Jazz’s commitment to support livestream events, we wanted to identify the venues that present them—that includes clubs, festivals, home concert presenters, schools and studios. We began the process by seeding the directory here. This page is also accessible from the Jazz Near You venue directory and by clicking VENUES on the Jazz Near You navigation bar. If your venue livestreams, please update your Jazz Near You page. If you are your page's administrator, simply click ...
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Live From Our Living Rooms: An Online Music Festival and Fundraiser Runs April 1st through April 7th
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Lydia Liebman Promotions
All proceeds will provide emergency relief to New York City musicians whose freelance careers have been impacted by COVID-19. Presented by Sirintip, Thana Alexa, Owen Broder and nonprofit partner, MusicTalks Work for NYC’s musicians has come to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic as performances have been cancelled and venues have closed indefinitely. Live From Our Living Rooms Music Festival and Fundraiser will help to fill in the gap for struggling musicians by bringing the joy of music live-streamed ...
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