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How are you celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month or International Jazz Day?

by Michael Ricci
April 7, 2015

Jazz Appreciation Month (April) and International Jazz Day (April 30) represent opportunities to program special events and bring together communities to draw public attention to jazz and its extraordinary heritage. Your friends at All About Jazz celebrate jazz and the musicians who make the music every day of the year. In addition to ...

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If you could make one suggestion on how to improve Jazz Near You, what would it be?

by Michael Ricci
July 28, 2015

Jazz Near You is a free event discovery platform for concert goers and a free event distribution platform for musicians, venue owners, and presenters. Like most software, Jazz Near You continually improves: from how we aggregate event information to how we make those events available to our website readers and our mailing list and ...

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Which jazz musicians produce consistently good music on records or in concert?

by Michael Ricci
June 22, 2015

We all have our favorites, but I'm wondering which of your favorites rarely, if ever, disappoint you on records or in concert? For me, it seems anything Joe Locke releases or plays on, sounds great. His latest, Love is a Pendulum (Motema, 2015), already has a seat assignment on my best of 2015 list ...

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If Coltrane emerged today, would he receive recognition and appreciation?

by Maxim Micheliov
March 1, 2015

A while ago I had a chat with Vytautas Labutis, an influential Lithuanian saxophonist, educator and, at the time, curator of Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival. He said: “The list of players with top skills is almost endless. Today we have kids who can do amazing things on their instruments, but the world is waiting for a ...

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In search of good jazz radio. What's your favorite station?

by Michael Ricci
February 16, 2015

Thanks to emerging technologies, music discovery options have grown over the last decade: From streaming services like Spotify, Pandora and YouTube, to music mapping options found at Amazon, to apps, to websites like All About Jazz--they all assist us in our mission to find new music. Despite all of the music discovery possibilities, however, ...

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How Are We Doing?

by Michael Ricci
February 17, 2015

We made several structural improvements to All About Jazz and Jazz Near You in 2014 which opened the door to a whole host of opportunities in 2015. One in particular is the new on demand jazz event calendar feature that you can access from anywhere at either site (click the blue button lower right corner).

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What were your favorite jazz albums in 2014?

by Michael Ricci
January 9, 2015

We continue to publish our staff's best of lists (here) and we've published additional lists over the last few weeks including top read interviews, top read reviews, top downloaded MP3s, and Ken Franckling's Year in Jazz. We're curious to know which jazz releases you liked best in 2014. Please share your favorite(s) in the ...

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Not a jazz fan? Tell us why.

by Michael Ricci
October 16, 2014

We have folks telling us why they love jazz over here. And yeah, we know, odd question coming from a website like All About Jazz, but we're hoping you'll share this page with your jazz-hating friends so we can better understand why they don't dig the music like us. If you have thoughts ...

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I love jazz. Why do you?

by Michael Ricci
October 9, 2014

I started listening to jazz at an early age, thanks to my father and his record collection. He also took me to shows. I was 9 or 10 when I saw Maynard Ferguson and his band (circa Live at Jimmy's)... those guys knew how to dress! I played the trumpet in bands and junior phils for ...