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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 ...

Article: Just For Fun

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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Giving Thanks & Spreading the Jazz Joy

by Michael Ricci
November 27, 2025

As always, we're celebrating Thanksgiving by recognizing two special groups of people: our benefactors, who helped make much of the 2025 website improvements possible, and our staff, who contribute and edit articles throughout the year. Both contributions are immeasurable, and we thank you all for your generosity, passion, creativity, and friendship. The good people who support ...

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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, ...

Article: Jazz and the Net

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 ...

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Scheduling a livestream event? Upload it to Jazz Near You and we'll help you promote it.

by Michael Ricci
March 20, 2020

COVID-19 and its impact represents an extraordinary and unprecedented time for us all. It has affected every person and every organization in jazz, disrupted our livelihoods, and we're all greatly concerned about the health and well-being of our community. Personally, I'm accustomed to working from home and have been doing so since 1995--but our network and ...

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All About Jazz Improves Press Release Distribution Service

January 23, 2019

All About Jazz has improved its press release / news announcement distribution service to further raise the awareness of each published announcement as well as raise the awareness of source. Recent improvements include: Support of large / header photo (example); Improved handling of pull quote author; News source is identified in the MORE NEWS section; An ...