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All About Jazz Launches New Website of Curated and Sponsored Content
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, the web's premier jazz music destination, has launched Jazz Stream, a snazzy page featuring website articles, website news, and sponsored content (accessible from “Features" that appears in the navigation bar on every page. In addition to providing access to our very best article content, All About Jazz has developed a new way for advertisers to engage readers through a photo rich, responsive, and infinite loading page. Those looking to promote an article published at another website or ...
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Support the Jazz Near You House Concert Project
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz, a constant innovator for jazz online, continues to stretch the boundaries of its platform with the impending launch of a jazz house concerts website. The goal of the house concerts website is to create more alternative venue performance opportunities for jazz musicians and generate greater turnouts for home concert presenters. We'll also offer guidance to anyone with an interest in hosting a home concert: from preparation to finding & booking a band. A massive undertaking, requiring years ...
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Support All About Jazz Through Amazon, Ticketfly, HDTracks, TicketWeb and more!
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All About Jazz
A simple way to support All About Jazz and Jazz Near You If you shop at Amazon, Ticketfly, HDTracks, iTunes, CD Universe, HiFiMan, Brown Paper Tickets, JazzPosters, TicketWeb, Ticketmaster, World Wide Stereo or Sheet Music Plus please initiate your purchase from All About Jazz. When you do, All About Jazz will receive a sales commission. Commission sales are one way All About Jazz can generate revenue to continue to expand what we do to support jazz music, promote jazz musicians, ...
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Tips from 40+ International Jazz Festival & Club Promoters
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Jazzfuel
As an independent jazz musician, it’s not easy to know how to reach festival and club promoters and – when you do – to know exactly what they are looking for. As always, the best way to get some more insight into this is to ask the promoters themselves! So, I recently put together a super short survey which 40+ promoters around the world were kind enough to take part in and I just wanted to share the results in ...
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"Phrases," Jazz Vocalist Jeff Baker's 5th Album & First To Feature His Original Music, Due January 19 On OA2 Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
After a seven-year hiatus from recording, contemporary jazz vocalist Jeff Baker is preparing to release Phrases, his fifth and most ambitious album to date. The new CD, due from OA2 Records on January 19, marks Baker’s debut as a composer, with seven of the album’s songs featuring his music and lyrics. The album takes its title from Baker’s use of what he calls “prompts” from favorite works of fiction, poetry, and song, among them texts by Pablo Neruda, J.D. Salinger, ...
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Bucks County’s Jazz Ambassador’s Eric Mintel lands new Jazz TV Talk show!
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All About Jazz
Bucks County’s Pennsylvania’s own, pianist and composer Eric Mintel has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime and a personal mission he has led for the past 25 years as bandleader of the Eric Mintel Quartet. In January Mintel will host his own TV show called Talking Jazz with Eric Mintel. The show will be taped out of TV30 in Princeton, NJ and will feature jazz musicians but will also focus on people behind the scenes, organizations, non profit groups ...
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Danish Vocalist Maria Emrik releases "My Christmas"
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Maria Emrik
New release from Danish jazz singer and songwriter Maria Emrik An Announcement from the desk of Danish music journalist Dave O. Smith: Maria Emrik has released a wonderful Christmas EP My Christmas. The EP contains three classic Christmas songs: “A Winter's Tale", “The Secret Of Christmas" and “Let It Snow." Maria has also composed two new, fabulous Christmas songs of her own “Christmas Time" and “Winter Song." They mix really well with the three classic and I am totally in ...
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Jazz Dispensary Rolls Out Two More Titles On Limited-Edition “Top Shelf” Vinyl Reissue Series: The 3 Pieces" Vibes Of Truth & Funk Inc.'s Self-Titled Debut Album
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Reckoning PR
Two new vinyl titles are being reissued as part of Jazz Dispensary’s Top Shelf Series: The 3 Pieces’ Vibes Of Truth, the lost 70’s jazz-funk crossover classic off Fantasy, and Funk Inc.’s raw and funky, self-titled debut album off Prestige. This will be the first time in over 20 years these releases will be made available on vinyl. As with all Top Shelf releases, both albums have been remastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl at ...
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