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WEBSITE NEWS April 15, 2016

All About Jazz: The Innovation Game

By MICHAEL RICCI

2015 marked All About Jazz's 20th year online. From the humble beginnings as a simple link site to the largest database in jazz media, AAJ has continually improved over the years and through some inspired stretches, has made significant advancements for jazz online. For me personally, operating All About Jazz since its inception has been a rewarding and life changing experience. And though it hasn't been without its dramatic moments, we have always navigated through the rough patches and improved ...

WEBSITE NEWS February 19, 2016

All About Jazz: Upgrades Continue... Move pending

By MICHAEL RICCI

If you visited All About Jazz between mid-December and the first week of February, then there was a good chance that our website was either slow or (worse) timed out. We apologize for the inconvenience but we were dealing with two very serious technical issues that have since been resolved. Now that we're back on track, we're excited to roll up our sleeves and get back to doing what we do best: innovate. But first, we'll ...

WEBSITE NEWS November 26, 2015

Giving Thanks & Sharing the Jazz Love

By MICHAEL RICCI

We're celebrating Thanksgiving by recognizing everyone who volunteered to help improve All About Jazz this past year. Your contributions were immeasurable and we thank you for your generosity, passion and friendship. The good people who support this website are as cool and as essential as the music itself. Thanks again! Since 1995 At All About Jazz and Jazz Near You, we celebrate jazz every day. We publish new content seven days a week, including articles, news ...

WEBSITE NEWS October 16, 2015

To 20 More Years! Help us build a bigger and better All About Jazz

By MICHAEL RICCI

In celebration of All About Jazz's 20th anniversary, we're asking for greater participation from our readers. Taking a page out of Wikipedia's book, we're looking for our friends and our long-time readers to pitch in and help: from submitting an article, to helping with other sections of the website including Jazz Near You. Kinda like this... Love Jimmy Smith's music? Then help us complete his musician profile and his discography. or, this...

WEBSITE NEWS May 22, 2014

Volunteer Opportunities Available

By MICHAEL RICCI

Dear friends, You can become a part of the All About Jazz and Jazz Near You ecosystem by joining a growing corps of volunteers that celebrate jazz music on an international stage every day. Establish your voice as part of the shared mission and take advantage of a great networking opportunity to meet knowledgeable writers, editors, techies, musicians, industry pros, visual artists and active supporters of the music from around the globe. Many of our ...

WEBSITE NEWS May 12, 2014

AAJ Magazine, Number 2, Spring 2014

By MICHAEL RICCI

Welcome to the Spring 2014 edition of All About Jazz magazine. Our maiden issue eclipsed 100,000 readers, which kicked off a series of raucous celebrations that lasted throughout Jazz Appreciation Month. And the party continues... We're all in, and we're doing our part to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Records with a special issue. Over 150 pages focused solely on Blue Note, spanning the label's storied past up through the present day and ...

WEBSITE NEWS December 4, 2013

Help All About Jazz Support Jazz

By MICHAEL RICCI

Dear friends, All About Jazz has been a leading advocate for jazz music since 1995. Longtime readers have watched us continuously transform our website over the past 18 years, keeping the spirit of the music firmly in mind along the way. We've also done our best to keep pace with technology while finding new and creative ways to report on jazz daily. And we're proud to provide musicians with a free global platform to publicize themselves (and their ...

WEBSITE NEWS September 28, 2012

Jazz Near You Needs You!

By MICHAEL RICCI

With the launching of Jazz Near You in nearly 200 cities worldwide, Max, Anna and myself (a.k.a. the development team) are planning the next phase of the project to refine the website and develop new features.Jazz Near You functions beautifully and we are anxious to improve our service, but we realize that our service is only as reliable as the content entered.As a crowd-sourced website and with a modest staff to validate entered data, we rely ...