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All About Jazz Upgrades Comments Portion of Website

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2012

All About Jazz has streamlined the posting, editing, deleting, and reporting of its comments to improve handling and flow. In addition to ravamping how we handle comments, we also improved the presentation, making it easier to follow and post to a thread. Readers can sort comments by newest or oldest post, track when comments were posted down to the minute, and delete their own posts. Comments can be edited without leaving the page and the comments section refreshes once you ...

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Bassist Thomonic Electrifies Jazz With Uncompromising New Ep

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 20, 2012

Like father, like son. For Nico Thom, the love of music is rooted in his childhood travels with his dad, an amateur musician with a passion for live performance, playing the saxophone, clarinet, and flute, as well as singing, from clubs to car salesrooms. It awakened Thom to the creative possibilities of melody, how instruments can open the doors to artistic expression. When he received an electronic drum kit at the age of 13, Thom’s imagination blossomed. However, it wasn’t ...

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Jazz Legend Peggy Lee to be Memorialized by Her Childhood Hometown (Wimbledon, North Dakota)

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
May 19, 2012

(May 18, 2012 - Wimbledon, ND) World-renowned jazz legend Miss Peggy Lee is being memorialized by her childhood hometown of Wimbledon, North Dakota with a permanent installation of photos, music and memorabilia from her unparalleled career at the transportation depot where she lived a number of years as a child. The exhibition will be dedicated at a Grand Opening ceremony attended by Lee's grandchildren on Saturday, May 26, which would have been the singer's 92nd birthday. When Lee was a ...

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"Searching For Sugar Man" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Brings Rodriguez's 1970s Music To A New Generation

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2012

RODRIGUEZ'S MYSTERY AND THE IMPACT OF HIS MUSIC ON SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH DURING APARTHEID REVEALED IN DOCUMENTARY Soundtrack available everywhere starting July 24, 2012 “The buzzworthy Sundance documentary" —Yahoo! “An acclaimed new documentary goes hunting for the lost Dylan" —Grantland LEGACY RECORDINGS LOGO Legacy Recordings logo. Division of SONY Music Entertainment. NEW YORK, NY: One of underground rock's most unusual stories of the 1970s, the tale of an obscure debut LP by a Detroit singer-songwriter named Rodriguez becoming a source ...

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Saxophonist Nathan Woodward Delivers Scorching Performance On "A Quartet Session"

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 19, 2012

Jazz is often caught in peak form when there are no frills, no studio glaze. The sign of a true musician is one who can excel minus the gimmicks and production makeup. Recorded live with only one microphone in a crowded house, Nathan Woodward’s A Quartet Session (Live from Martin Hall) is jazz served raw, the way it should be. The setting invigorates Woodward, a promising young saxophonist. Although only two tracks, A Quartet Session doesn’t feel lacking of any ...

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All About Jazz Launches Free Event Upload Service

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2012

All About Jazz, the web's leading jazz event aggregator has launched a free event upload service so musicians, presenters, agencies, venues and festivals can upload multiple concert dates to the All About Jazz calendar network. “This is a tremendously convenient and fast way for folks to upload several concert dates at once," said Michael Ricci, All About Jazz's founder and publisher. “All events uploaded to All About Jazz appear at the website and in our [weekly] regional concert calendar email ...

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Contest

Enter the "Kate McGarry - Girl Talk" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Palmetto Records “Kate McGarry - Girl Talk“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 19th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Kate McGarry at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Palmetto Records About Girl Talk With Girl Talk, Grammy-nominated Kate McGarry pays homage to her role models among the great women of the jazz vocal ...

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All About Jazz Navigation Improvements

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2012

We refined and improved the All About Jazz home page to increase the awareness of website comments and to increase our navigation bar options. 1. Readers must now click a navigation bar section header to open the menu items beneath it. This opens a larger window that is locked in place and will remain visible even if you move your mouse pointer away from the area. The old version automatically closed when you moused away. 2. We added a “Comments" ...

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