Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin.
Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website.
If you are a jazz musician and use GigPress, please send Michael Ricci your website URL. Your Gigpress RSS feed location is typically located here: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?feed=gigpress.
States Ricci, “WordPress is widely considered the leading content management platform and it's used by hundreds of jazz musicians worldwide. Reading a musician's GigPress feed is significant and represents another step towards our commitment to building the most comprehensive jazz events calendar on the internet."
Use GigPress and not listed above? Contact us.
Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website.
If you are a jazz musician and use GigPress, please send Michael Ricci your website URL. Your Gigpress RSS feed location is typically located here: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?feed=gigpress.
States Ricci, “WordPress is widely considered the leading content management platform and it's used by hundreds of jazz musicians worldwide. Reading a musician's GigPress feed is significant and represents another step towards our commitment to building the most comprehensive jazz events calendar on the internet."
Some GigPress Users
Amir ElSaffar, Bob James, Carl Allen, Dave Douglas, Donny McCaslin, George Benson, Gwilym Simcock, Jayme Stone, Jeff Sipe, Joe Locke, Kat Parra, Kenny Werner, Kermit Ruffins, Kneebody, Linda May Han Oh, Mason Brothers Quintet, Mats Gustafsson, Norma Winstone, Ryan Keberle, Stefan Pasborg, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, and Zaccai Curtis.Use GigPress and not listed above? Contact us.
Maximize the number of events exported to Jazz Near You
Jazz Near You cannot import events if the venue name or the city name in your GigPress feed is misspelled or if the venue is not in our database. You can find the venue's proper name by searching for it at Jazz Near You:Searching for venue names
- Click the magnifying glass in the top right corner of any Jazz Near You page;
- Click the “Directory" tab;
- Start typing, then select from the autocomplete box.
Naming cities
- Incorrect: “New York City"; correct: “New York";
- Borough or neighborhood instead of city. Incorrect: “Brooklyn" or “Greenwich Village"; correct: “New York."
- Foreign spelling: e.g. “Bruxelles" should be “Brussels" (always use the English spelling);
About GigPress & WordPress
GigPress is a powerful live performance listing and management WordPress plugin designed for musicians and other performers. WordPress developers share a love of jazz music, and since WordPress 1.0, all major releases are named in honor of jazz musicians they admire.For Musicians
For more information contact All About Jazz.
