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What Jazz Is Best For Running?

by Steve Cook
October 20, 2022

New York City isn't just an epicenter for the music that All About Jazz readers love. It is also home to the largest marathon in the world. With tens of thousands training for the upcoming race, this edition of The Big Question considers: What jazz is best for running? The following reflects on the question through ...

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How many listens does it take to grok an album?

by Doug Collette
July 28, 2022

A neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961), “grok“ is summarized in the Oxford English Dictionary as “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and “to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with)"; “also, to experience enjoyment."

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What is your preferred music listening format?

by Michael Ricci
April 24, 2015

Compact disc sales are in steady decline as most younger listeners opt for streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube. Millennials are also the driving force behind vinyl sales growth (since 2008) as 9.2 million units were sold in 2014, up 51.8% from 2013. I was a heavy vinyl collector growing up, made mixtapes, ...

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Why don't more jazz venues present the music more in line with how people live today, rather than how they lived 60 years ago?

by Christopher Burnett
December 2, 2014

I have pondered for more than a decade as to why most jazz venues don't present the music contemporary to the lifestyles of most people today. Some do. Progressive examples of such venues that come immediately to mind include, Shapeshifter Lab in New York City and The Blue Whale in Los Angeles.

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Can jazz become culturally relevant again? If so, how?

by Michael Ricci
September 10, 2014

Welcome to the debut of a provocative new column called “The Big Question," a regular feature that is designed to get you engaged and talking about the important issues facing jazz today. And we begin with a topic that has weighed on my mind for as long as this website has been in existence: “Can jazz ...

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Some of the freshest and most innovative music in the current day is coming from the jazz world. Why isn't this better known?

by Ted Gioia
February 25, 2015

Jazz no longer has the same degree of influence or popularity nowadays. We shouldn't be surprised to see the public's musical tastes change over the decades. New styles come and go. But I must admit that I am still shocked when I hear young listeners describe jazz as old-fashioned, or treat it like a museum piece. ...

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Music and Evolution: Hearing Math, Seeing Sound, and other Unanswered Questions

by Kurt Ellenberger
April 12, 2022

Music and Evolution: A Brief Overview The evidence presented in the research on music and evolution, beginning with Darwin himself,1 focuses largely on music's purported ability to support “mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion,"2 language development, 3 and other things. The prevailing evolutionary theories about music follow Darwin's lead--they are predominantly sociological, cultural, ...

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Anymore, does Facebook help your business / career? If so, to what extent?

by Michael Ricci
April 14, 2021

I'll admit, I was never a Facebook fan. First, I'm mostly a private person, but more importantly, I have precious time and spend it fully on building All About Jazz and Jazz Near You. Not to mention, Facebook has not been kind to independent web publishers, causing many to shutter over the years. My ...

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How do you use All About Jazz & Jazz Near You and how would you like to see them improve?

by Michael Ricci
February 15, 2018

All About Jazz--which includes Jazz Near You--is a 23-year project in the making. We improve the platform daily, grow our community, build our mailing list, and continue to balance a presentation that informs and entertains jazz fans and provides professional services to jazz professionals. Engagement and usage vary from reader to reader ...

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Presenting Problem

by Duncan Heining
January 30, 2018

Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...