Venue? 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 ...
read moreThis & That: June 2023
By MICHAEL RICCI
June 8, 2023
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Our work at All About Jazz is never done as evolving technologies ensure that we remain busy and focused on our future. Though we always have an eye towards expansion, we also tend to our existing architecture so AAJ continues to run smoothly and without interruption. We included a list of recent but noteworthy improvements below. Completed the publicity firm client tracking and service recipient management project (learn more); Developed a solution to move our outgoing messages ...
read moreGet 'em while it's hot!
By MICHAEL RICCI
May 18, 2023
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After an extensive search to find the right printer that best fit AAJ's requirements, we decided on Zazzle.com as our merchandise shop. As it turned out, no platform was a perfect fit and some were downright onerous, but Zazzle checked most of the boxes, so here we are. We quality-checked the merchandise and officially opened our store today. Zazzle dictates when products go on sale and as luck would have it, all AAJ merch is discounted, so get ...
read moreNew Record Label of the Week Service
By MICHAEL RICCI
May 11, 2023
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We can't speak to other music genres, but record labels are important to us jazz folk. We seek them out oftentimes drawn to their roster or their aesthetics (sound or album cover art). This week we focus on two labels that have produced consistently exceptional modern jazz while we take a moment to introduce Record Label of the Week which is intended to help jazz record labels raise the awareness of their music. With that, we kick it off with ...
read morePoll Tips and Fixes
By MICHAEL RICCI
March 31, 2023
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For those who have struggled to cast votes, try this simple method: Vote for three musicians and be sure to wait for the autocomplete list to load before SELECTING the name. Once you cast your vote, go to your My Polls page. From there, you can add more names and up to the maximum allowable amount. This page is accessible by also clicking “View my voting history" under the “Polls" tab on your AAJ member page. All About ...
read moreContest Giveaway
