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The Tools Behind the Music: Building a More Connected Jazz Community

by Michael Ricci
November 10, 2026

Beyond articles and album reviews, All About Jazz and Jazz Near You provide musicians, publicists, record labels, venues, and festivals with tools to share information, connect with audiences, and participate in a growing jazz ecosystem. For many visitors, All About Jazz is a destination for album reviews, interviews, articles, news, and music discovery. Jazz ...

Article: Inside AAJ

All About Jazz: Building the Future of Jazz, Together

by Michael Ricci
November 4, 2026

When I founded All About Jazz in 1995, I envisioned a place where people who loved jazz could share their knowledge, discover new music, and connect with others who shared their passion. Thirty-one years later, that vision has grown into an internationally respected institution serving musicians, writers, photographers, venues, record labels, presenters, educators, broadcasters, ...

Article: Inside AAJ

Jazz Near You: Building a Better Way to Discover Live Jazz

by Michael Ricci
November 2, 2026

Finding live jazz should be easy. Whether you're looking for a show in your hometown, planning a night out in New York City, or traveling abroad and hoping to discover the local jazz scene, you should be able to find out who's playing, where, and when without visiting a dozen websites. That's the idea ...

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By Jazz Fans, For Jazz Fans: How All About Jazz Works

by Michael Ricci
September 21, 2026

When All About Jazz launched in 1995, one of our earliest taglines was simple: “By jazz fans, for jazz fans." At the time, those six words pretty much said it all. We were people who loved jazz, writing about jazz for other people who loved jazz. There wasn't much need to explain ...

Article: Chats with Cats

Michael Ricci: Still Building a Home for Jazz

by B.D. Lenz
August 19, 2026

This is a very special installment of Chats with Cats. Normally, I interview people from different corners of the jazz world. This time, I turned the microphone toward the person who made this conversation possible--the cat, if you will. As the founder and publisher of All About Jazz, Michael Ricci has spent decades building ...

Article: Inside AAJ

Thirty Years Later, the Vision Remains

by Michael Ricci
August 13, 2026

When people ask me how All About Jazz began, they often assume it started with a website. It didn't. The idea predates AAJ by two years. Before All About Jazz launched in August 1995, I was fascinated by the possibilities of organizing album information in ways that made it more ...