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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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All About Jazz Acquired by AI Collective, Announces Fully Autonomous Criticism

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2026

In a move that industry observers are already calling “inevitable," All About Jazz today announced its acquisition by a privately funded artificial intelligence consortium known only as The Collective. Financial terms were not disclosed, though sources familiar with the deal described the valuation as “algorithmically determined and emotionally neutral." Effective immediately, all editorial operations--including ...

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Onward to 30!

by Michael Ricci
August 25, 2024

For our members who do not subscribe to our weekly newsletter, this past week's was of particular importance so we pulled sections from it and published it as an article. You can join over 89,000 members and subscribe to our free weekly newsletter. When you do, we'll keep you current on website happenings plus include a ...

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Raising the Bar in Year 28

by Michael Ricci
August 3, 2023

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, ...

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Artificial Intelligence and All About Jazz? DIG 9000 jams with ChatGPT

by Kurt Ellenberger
March 2, 2023

As the internet's oldest jazz resource, All About Jazz (AAJ) has always been on the cutting edge of using new technologies in the promotion of jazz and jazz musicians. This commitment continues to this day with the new technology that has emerged in recent months, namely, the so-called “Artificial Intelligence" (AI) known as “ChatGPT" that has ...

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Silver Linings: AAJ @ 25

by Michael Ricci
October 2, 2020

All About Jazz recently celebrated its 25th year online. Crazy as it sounds, “AAJ," as it has come to be known, was originally a sandbox to help me learn the ins-and-outs of the infant World Wide Web. Fast forward five years and the double whammy of Y2K and 9/11 sunk my software business (another story). But ...