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Get Out

by AAJ Staff
November 15, 2003

For those who live in the Northern Hemisphere, May can be an auspicious time. Mother Nature has provided a brilliant alternative to incandescent light, something flowers, ducklings, and young children don't need any explanation to understand. Neither should you. It doesn't fade until late evening, folks. Then just imagine what it's like to live ...

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Jazz Theory

by AAJ Staff
April 23, 2003

A dictionary is not a language. Organic chemistry is not fine cooking. A census is not a community. People who theorize about music like to reduce it to three dimensions: pitch, intensity, and time--exactly what's found on sheet music. When you play a CD, you're listening to a string of bits that encode precisely ...

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Welcome to All About Jazz!

by Michael Ricci
April 17, 2003

Welcome to All About Jazz, a web site produced by jazz fans and those who love the web and its infinite possibilities to support our music. Our ongoing mission (of 31 years) is to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future. We aim to inform and entertain our readers and help ...

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Simple Talk

by AAJ Staff
March 21, 2003

It's a simple fact of life. Every day we witness people chatting, conversation at work, simple nods on the street. (Except for hermits, cave-dwellers, and other perverse isolationists.) Those of us who celebrate jazz also get to enjoy an altogether different kind of talk on a daily basis: the whispered calls of an alto saxophone, an ...

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Illumination

by AAJ Staff
February 25, 2003

It comes as a quiet blink in the dark, a sudden wash of color, or sheer blinding intensity. The best thing is, it happens without any warning. That's the sublime power of music created in the moment, always teetering on the edge of unpredictability. Once you've make that leap enough times, you'll find yourself addicted.

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Present Tense

by AAJ Staff
January 28, 2003

One of the advantages we have as an internet publication is immediacy. There's no need to wait for a print run before we make material public. As All About Jazz has evolved, we have contined to exploit this feature. Several months ago, we introduced rapid publication of CD reviews, supplementing our monthly updates with daily postings. ...