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Seven Free or Inexpensive Ways to Get Featured At All About Jazz
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz & Jazz Near You offer a variety of promotional opportunities for music professionals. From musicians and publicists to venues, festivals and record labels, there are several ways to reach the largest network of jazz fans, jazz influencers, and industry professionals online. In this article, we list two free services and five inexpensive services ...
Jazz vs. Classical Funding
by Nicholas Krolak
Throughout jazz history there has been a desire among the jazz community to see the music respected on the same level as western classical music. It is after all, jazz is America's classical music. As Dr. Billy Taylor explains, “Classical music must be time-tested; it must serve as a standard or model; it must have established ...
Jazz Ear Training: The Best Ear Training Guide For Jazz Musicians
by Freek Just Rijna
You've heard the gospel: if you want to play jazz, you need to train your ears! That might be easier said than done though. Where do you start? And if you're a bit more advanced, how do you train your ears in a way that impacts your playing? In this article, I'll explain why ear training ...
Media and Industry Tips for the Accomplished Jazz Musician
by Kerilie McDowall
Are you releasing your next recording? Are you an independent artist? Is getting that crucial interview to further your music career on your bucket list?--A couple of key points: For reviews, interviews, or story coverage (generally speaking), print editors of magazines require a listen three months' notice BEFORE your release date. Newspapers need one ...
Thana Alexa, Sirintip and Owen Broder: Beaming Live Jazz From Their Living Rooms To Yours
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz was in a unique position to help promote and broadcast the Live From Our Living Rooms Festival & Fundraiser to our readers from April 1-7, 2020 as we presented select performances over the seven days. Similar to the NEA Jazz Masters concert we broadcasted last April, I felt a personal connection to the ...
A Professionals Guide To Live Streaming Jazz
by Robert Bullington
If you're reading this, you're likely either a performer, or own / manage a performance venue. Are you wondering how to stay connected with your audiences? Are you thinking about maximizing your reach, after all the quarantines and stay-at-home orders are lifted? Internet livestreaming could help you reach audiences who can't leave their homes now, and ...
A Guide To Live Streaming And Best Practices
by Matt Jorgensen
With COVID-19 upending our lives over the last two months, finding ways to replace lost income has become vital to many of us--not to mention connection to community and just the act of MAKING MUSIC. With jny: Seattle being an original hot spot for the coronavirus, our community had to move fast to find ...
Uploading Your Albums To All About Jazz: A How-To Guide
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz, with the help of musicians, record labels and publicists, add new jazz albums to our database every day and we've added close to 168,000 albums since 2015. You can read more about the seeds of our discography project here. In this article, we'll explain how to add, update, and delete albums ...
"…that wild mercury sound." The Significance of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
by C. Michael Bailey
During high school and college, I got interested in the Nobel Prizes. At the time, I was not interest in all of them: only the prize for Literature. I have been a reading geek as long as I have been a music geek and I have always mixed the two passions liberally. In the early 20th ...
Banner Advertising: Questions to Ask, What to Look For and Red Flags
by Michael Ricci
As a leader in the online jazz music space, and with years of hands-on experience at managing advertising sales and ad serving software, I felt it was a good time to help the many newcomers to this arena better understand how banner advertising works, and offer sound solutions and insights when making purchasing decisions.
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