https://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/ 2025-03-12T21:12:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/sounds-from-aaj-by-michael-ricci

Over the past few months, we've experimented with AI analyzing and providing commentary on certain All About Jazz pages, essentially using it to summarize our pages in a podcast-style format. Readers have found them useful and complementary to the text on our various how-to, information and policy pages, so we created five more... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2025-03-12T21:12:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/more-on-the-apps-and-whats-next-by-michael-ricci

We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who donated to All About Jazz over the past year. Your support helped cover the cost of the two free apps (learn how to add them here)... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2025-02-20T15:36:34+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/your-aaj-follow-musicians-and-writers-by-michael-ricci

There are a few ways to customize your content at All About Jazz and we explain how below. Following Our Staff ... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2025-02-05T18:59:30+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/pronunciation-guide-by-michael-ricci

All About Jazz is on a mission to help radio hosts and podcasters pronounce your name correctly and we developed the perfect solution by allowing you to pronounce your own name and associate it with your AAJ musician page. To create an audio file of your name sounded out, simply follow the steps below... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2025-01-16T12:30:26+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/best-of-2024-by-michael-ricci

Before we close the books on 2024, we want to take a moment to express our gratitude to our incredible staff--writers, editors, and technical team--who brought their passion, creativity, and expertise to the table every day. This year has been one of AAJ's most productive, and I couldn't be prouder of what we've accomplished together... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-12-30T15:50:55+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dig-improves-and-best-of-2024-by-michael-ricci

Our annual roundups kicked off last week with Chris May's posthumous picks. The way things are shaping up, we may publish a new Best Of 2024 article every day from now through the New Year, so stay tuned! Related, our first midway point article entitled Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition was published on July 15th and is still going strong topping 31,500 reads... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-12-12T14:18:56+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/this-and-that-november-2024-by-michael-ricci

Every so often we highlight a useful feature that we think you might've missed, and today we'd like to revisit All About Jazz's personal concert calendar feature. In a nutshell, the personal concert calendar helps you track shows and get reminders for concerts you're interested in... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-11-27T11:34:45+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/chris-may-by-michael-ricci

All About Jazz's staff culture is best described as a close-knit group of like-minded friends, united by a shared passion for jazz music. Many of these friendships have existed since AAJ's inception, which makes it especially heartbreaking to announce the passing of Chris May... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-11-22T11:20:06+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/back-to-the-bot-by-michael-ricci

DIG 9000, AAJ's benevolent bot, represents another significant step forward for the All About Jazz platform. Generative, our bot continues to learn and we learn along with it. Here are the most frequent inquiries from the past two weeks: Q: How can I submit a press release? A: All About Jazz offers a press release posting and distribution service and you can learn more about it here... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-10-30T14:58:10+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musician-water-drink-by-michael-ricci

Much in the way we outlined how venues can use Jazz Near You to list and promote their events, this week we'll turn our attention to the tools available to jazz musicians. All About Jazz is currently home to 144,837 musician pages... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-10-16T11:02:04+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/venue-partner-with-aaj-by-michael-ricci

All About Jazz isn't just another music website; it's a vibrant, one-of-a-kind platform crafted exclusively for jazz enthusiasts by seasoned professionals with a deep understanding of both technology and the art form itself. What truly sets AAJ apart is our unwavering commitment to developing innovative solutions that cater specifically to our passionate jazz community... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-10-04T13:55:25+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dig-drives-improvements-and-staff-recruitment-update-by-michael-ricci

The biggest news of 2024 is easily DIG 9000 (AAJ's chatbot assistant) and our app which will support push notifications (coming soon). Both are of monumental importance to our platform and to All About Jazz's future. If you haven't had the chance to ask DIG a question, please do, as it's designed to learn and improve every day, so the more you interact with it, the sharper and quicker it becomes... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-09-23T20:04:42+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bot-search-and-survey-update-by-michael-ricci

We hope you're having fun with DIG 9000, AAJ's very own chatbot. If you haven't had the chance to ask it a question yet, now's the perfect time to jump in. DIG is designed to learn and improve every day, so the more you interact with it, the sharper and quicker it becomes. We've been keeping an eye on your chatbot questions and are tweaking both the chatbot and the website based on your feedback... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-09-15T15:04:31+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-dawn-of-dig-by-michael-ricci

All About Jazz has been a pioneer in the jazz world since MCMXCV. We love being the first to try new things and we're long known for adopting emerging technologies. From being the first and only jazz website with a theme song to now, being the first jazz website to use AI... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-09-05T14:16:08+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/aaj-turns-29-plus-jazz-forward-awards-and-john-kelman-by-michael-ricci

Hello, Year 29. We made it! Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. All About Jazz's journey has been an incredible ride shaped by a long list of impressive individuals and we pay tribute to one of our brightest who unexpectedly passed last week (see below). From navigating the rapid shifts in technology to crafting a vision filled with creativity and passion, we've built a platform that we are truly proud of. As All About Jazz's birthday closely follows my own (by four days to be exact), it's a special time for reflection and forward thinking... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-08-15T19:45:19+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/for-professionals-by-michael-ricci

We added an "AAJPro" icon to the All About Jazz header and clicking it takes you to our All About Jazz For Professionals page. If you're a musician, festival presenter, venue owner, publicist, record label representative or radio / podcast host, please take a moment and familiarize yourself with this page... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-08-08T16:49:43+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/approaching-year-29-by-michael-ricci

All About Jazz is gearing up to celebrate its 29th anniversary in less than a month and we have some exciting news to share. First, we're launching the All About Jazz Shop featuring Ricci-made products. Hey, if it's made by a Ricci, it's gotta be good! We'll offer the NOW PLAYING (wood) stand and we're already prototyping an AAJ (acrylic) color changing light which is super cool... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-07-20T17:10:44+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/now-playing-music-stand-contest-winners-by-michael-ricci

Big congratulations to Joel from Cherry Hill (NJ) and Tony from Kettering (OH) for snagging the AAJ NOW PLAYING stands. Joel scored the prized vinyl stand while Tony landed "Little Buddy" (the CD stand). Tony illustrated CD stand scale by flanking Aerial Boundaries with two Garbage Pail Kids figurines--that's Jerry Garcia on the left and "Bony Tony" on the right... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-07-08T17:07:58+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/videos-wanted-numbers-and-tips-by-michael-ricci

Video Curators Wanted We're looking to start a new section where you (our members) share your video discoveries with the All About Jazz community. It can be a song from an album (old or new), a live performance (example), an interview (example), a product unboxing (example), something coordinated with a featured story..... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-06-20T15:25:11+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musician-tip-your-thumbnail-photo-by-michael-ricci

A staff member created a musician page for Brazilian saxophonist Vinicius Mendes three days ago. After two days, Vinicius' All About Jazz musician page appeared in the #6 position on a page 1 Google search. Today it's #3... [ read more ]]]>Michael Ricci2024-06-01T11:01:55+00:00