Mega Venue Clean Up & More Imported Events Including Dizzy's in NYC
By MICHAEL RICCI
November 20, 2023
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We made massive cuts to our venue directory last week, pruning venues that had no associated events and identifying venues that have not uploaded or exported an event to JNY in the last four years. These venues have been marked as “dormant," removed from the active list but can be reactivated by simply uploading an event to Jazz Near You. Of course, we want all active jazz presenters on board and uploading events regularly as our 85,000+ subscribers are eager to ...
read moreImporting More Events (VenuePilot & Groupmuse) Plus a Map and Some Numbers
By MICHAEL RICCI
November 2, 2023
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In a previous post, we outlined our effort to import jazz events via a venue's event management software's data feed and we struck gold with eTix (learn more here). VenuePilot This time around, we collaborated with VenuePilot and in the first phase, imported their jazz events in Denver (Dazzle Jazz Club, Field Arts And Events Hall, The Gift of Jazz) and New Orleans (Chickie Wah Wah). The next phase involves some NYC venues including Winter Jazzfest, Nublu ...
read moreEvent Imports & Venue Clean Up - A Team Effort
By MICHAEL RICCI
October 13, 2023
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A few weeks back, we called out to venues about exporting their events to the Jazz Near You calendar (learn more here). In a recent development, we're happy to report that 20 venues use eTix and we imported nearly 1,000 events in one gulp yesterday. Now we'll have a full calendar of events for Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant (Minneapolis), Yoshi's (Oakland), Charleston Jazz (Charleston), Middle C Jazz Club (Charlotte), Berklee Performance Center (Boston) and another 15 more. Many venues ...
read moreNeat and Tidy
By MICHAEL RICCI
October 10, 2023
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Back in August we completed an effort to clean up our database. It was long overdue. We had thousands of deactivated records that were taking up space and our goal was to ensure our db remained squeaky clean and optimized moving forward. When all was said and done, the clean-up resulted in the removal of 207,641 records spanning 43 tables reducing the size of our database by 2%. Amazing, and it just goes to show you how massive AAJ is... ...
read moreVenue? Export your events to Jazz Near You
By MICHAEL RICCI
September 21, 2023
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All About Jazz continually improves our Jazz Near You concert discovery platform and we collaborate with venues to import their calendars via their event management systems. For example, we do this with the Village Vanguard and their ticketing platform, SquadUP. Some ticketing platforms--and there are several--offer an event feed or an API, which AAJ has the technical means to read & import. If you currently upload events to Jazz Near You, this eliminates the need to do so. ...
read moreImproved Navigation and Two Tips
By MICHAEL RICCI
September 7, 2023
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The All About Jazz redesign project is well underway. Modernizing our appearance, improving navigation and enhancing your experience is only part of the plan. This time around we're using analytics to inform our design decisions for an optimal look & feel. We'll also improve how AAJ appears on smaller devices, improve page speed and address reader retention. We previously mentioned our vastly improved SEARCH feature--we also overhauled and expanded our EXPLORE feature. Both were necessary leading up to the relaunch ...
read moreAAJ Turns 28
By MICHAEL RICCI
August 27, 2023
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All About Jazz turned 28 on August 15th. Our friends at Mosaic Records described our anniversary as “a helluva an accomplishment!" and we agree. Staying power in jazz (online) is rare, but we've figured out how to make it work through the years. We mentioned previously that we have several projects in the pipeline to improve AAJ and Jazz Near You. They are significant, come with a price tag, and we're looking for member assistance. If you ...
read moreTrouble Accessing All About Jazz? A Tip.
By MICHAEL RICCI
August 2, 2023
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An issue arose about two weeks ago where readers, including myself, had trouble accessing All About Jazz. Jazz Near You was fine, but AAJ returned a persistent 520 error. This one to be exact. It appeared out of the blue, was not caused by an internal code change, but the source was difficult to pin down. Running with a hunch, we switched off our ads to rule them out. Initially, it seemed there was a conflict ...
read moreFunding 2023 and Beyond
By MICHAEL RICCI
July 27, 2023
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." --Charles Mingus The above Mingus quote really struck a chord as All About Jazz is a work of passion and creativity in a continuous search to present the rich universe of jazz in the most accessible way possible. Musician profiles, jazz clubs, show dates, festivals, album reviews, photos, polls, contests, news, free music, etc., over 100 years of jazz history--past, present, and in-the-making--packed into one friendly platform.
read moreHistory of the Jazz Web
By MICHAEL RICCI
June 21, 2023
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A friend recently queried ChatGPT with “The First Jazz Website" and emailed me the results (see below). As we've come to learn, AI needs fact checking and in this case, if it were 100% accurate, Jazz Online and Jazz Central Station would have appeared on this list and above JazzTimes and Downbeat (relative late comers). In the early days, the websites that pushed the envelope were AAJ, Jazz Online, Jazz Central Station (a heavily-funded, resource-intensive website built during ...
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