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Jazz Near You Origin Story

By Michael Ricci
July 4, 2025
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Back in 2010, a spark of inspiration hit me that would change the course of my work and vision for AAJ: it was Jazz Near You. At the time, the music industry was reeling from a collapse in CD sales, and musicians were reaching out, asking how All About Jazz could help them promote their concerts to bridge the gap. It was a lightbulb moment and my most significant idea since, well... All About Jazz (1995). Not only did I ...

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Jazz Near You and Jam Sessions

By Michael Ricci
June 28, 2025
1,588 views

Thanks to jazz superfan and digital marketing consultant Marco Duso, we created three more Italian websites for the towns of Treviso, Padova and Vicenza. Guitarist, composer, producer and Asbury Park (New Jersey) resident Adam De Lucia encouraged us to create a website for Asbury Park and when Adam speaks, we listen. If you present jazz, own a venue or perform in and around Asbury Park or the newly added Italian towns, be sure to list your events on Jazz Near ...

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The new Jazz Near You header is live!

By Michael Ricci
March 5, 2024
1,932 views

The new Jazz Near You header went live today. It's styled after the new All About Jazz header to keep navigation and the look & feel between the two websites consistent and clean. The differences are that the Jazz Near You hamburger icon opens to a different set of essential links; SEARCH takes you to the Jazz Near You search page (which was recently improved to include viewing an artist's entire performance calendar); the green UPLOAD EVENTS tab ...

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Collectively, we can make a difference

By Michael Ricci
December 6, 2023
2,842 views

All About Jazz endeavours to present the most comprehensive jazz calendar and have so since Jazz Near You's inception (2011). Yet, over the years, we still have holes to fill. It's why we regularly encourage promoters, presenters and venue owners to upload or export their events to Jazz Near You. We make it super convenient for our subscribers to find out who is playing where and when and it's why we ask everyone to participate and list their events. First, ...

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Mega Venue Clean Up & More Imported Events Including Dizzy's in NYC

By Michael Ricci
November 20, 2023
1,807 views

We made massive cuts to our venue directory last week, pruning venues that had no?associated events and identifying venues that have not uploaded or exported an event to JNY in the last four years. These venues have been marked as “dormant," removed from the active list but can be reactivated by simply uploading an event to Jazz Near You. Of course, we want all active jazz presenters on board and uploading events regularly as our 85,000+ subscribers are eager to ...

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Importing More Events (VenuePilot & Groupmuse) Plus a Map and Some Numbers

By Michael Ricci
November 2, 2023
2,696 views

In a previous post, we outlined our effort to import jazz events via a venue's event management software's data feed and we struck gold with eTix (learn more here). VenuePilot This time around, we collaborated with VenuePilot and in the first phase, imported their jazz events in Denver (Dazzle Jazz Club, Field Arts And Events Hall, The Gift of Jazz) and New Orleans (Chickie Wah Wah). The next phase involves some NYC venues including Winter Jazzfest, Nublu ...

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Event Imports & Venue Clean Up - A Team Effort

By Michael Ricci
October 13, 2023
2,198 views

A few weeks back, we called out to venues about exporting their events to the Jazz Near You calendar (learn more here). In a recent development, we're happy to report that 20 venues use eTix and we imported nearly 1,000 events in one gulp yesterday. Now we'll have a full calendar of events for Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant (Minneapolis), Yoshi's (Oakland), Charleston Jazz (Charleston), Middle C Jazz Club (Charlotte), Berklee Performance Center (Boston) and another 15 more. Many venues ...

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Venue? Export your events to Jazz Near You

By Michael Ricci
September 21, 2023
3,220 views

All About Jazz continually improves our Jazz Near You concert discovery platform and we collaborate with venues to import their calendars via their event management systems. For example, we do this with the Village Vanguard and their ticketing platform, SquadUP. Some ticketing platforms--and there are several--offer an event feed or an API, which AAJ has the technical means to read & import. If you currently upload events to Jazz Near You, this eliminates the need to do so. ...

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Playing Changes on Northeast Ohio's Club Scene

By John Chacona
October 7, 2022
4,999 views

If you've been on the scene recently in your community, you've probably noticed that the last few years have profoundly changed the landscape of people, places and trends in the way the music comes to us. On the Scene, a new service at AllAboutJazz.com, aims to keep you informed about what's going on in the complex, ever-evolving jazz scene at this crucial time. Here you'll find information on new places where the music can be ...

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55 Bar Benefit

By Michael Ricci
September 17, 2021
1,652 views

In case you missed our September 16th newsletter, I posted it in its entirety below. Also, if you plan to attend any of the 55 Bar benefit shows, now is a good time to use All About Jazz's personal calendar feature. Just click the ADD EVENT button in the Save the Date section on a Jazz Near You event detail page. When you do, the selected event will appear on your Personal Calendar page. AAJ will also send you a ...