With club closures, shelter in place and an uncertain future, we've pivoted our platform to collect, promote and broadcast livestream concerts to support our jazz musician friends. We've also revamped the weekly Jazz Near You newsletter to highlight livestream events as well as All About Jazz content you may have missed. To sign up for your free weekly newsletter, simply update the “Jazz Near You Subscription Settings" section on your member settings page.
Project Livestream Jazz: An Update
- The Jazz Near You calendar now supports livestream events. Learn about how to upload your event here.
- You can help promote livestream jazz events by embedding the livestream jazz calendar on your website or blog. Learn more here.
- Jazz Near You collaborated with WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia to promote livestream jazz events. Learn more here.
- Here's our master list of livestream events. We'll add lots more in the coming weeks.
- A Guide To Live Streaming And Best Practices (using your iPhone).
Got the cooped up blues? We Recommend:
Listen
- Get your Jazz Immuno-Booster today! It's the next best thing to a vaccine. Listen to Part 1 here. Part 2 is here.
- Russell Perry's Jazz at 100 radio show. Start with New Orleans Diaspora – Kid Ory and King Oliver (1922- 1927) and make your way up to Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet (1963- 1968). All shows.
- How is COVID-19 impacting the creative class? Find out with Leo Sidran's latest The Third Story podcast, where he chats with performing musicians, online creators, and artists.
- Discover new music with All About Jazz's track of the day. It'll keep you busy for hours, possibly weeks.
Read
- Karl Ackermann's latest installment of Under the Radar: The Archive of Contemporary Music.
- Kurt Ellenberger's 3-part, Cold Fusion: The Search for the Jazz/Rock Unicorn.
- B.D. Lenz interviewed Marc Free of Posi-Tone Records for his Chats with Cats column.
- Kyle Simpler details the vinyl jazz releases should you look for on Record Store Day here.
- We've reached #16 on Paul Rauch's “20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know" list. Check out the current list here and look for new entry every two weeks until we reach #1.
- Visit our album review section and discover new music. We publish three to four new reviews every day.
Latest giveaway: Origin Records
Enter the Origin Records CD giveaway contest and win a chance at alto-saxophonist Brent Jensen's The Sound of a Dry Martini: Remembering Paul Desmond or emerging trumpeter Charlie Porter's Immigration Nation. As an added bonus, all winners will receive an Origin Records t-shirt. Enter here.520 error: an explanation
We apologize if you were greeted with a 520 error over the last few days—it was due the installation of security software. It took some fine-tuning which resulted in some readers getting blocked from the site. Thankfully, all is clear and the website is more secure. Jazz Near You was not impacted.Musician? Work on your All About Jazz presence:
- Upload your livestream event to Jazz Near You
- Create or complete your album discography
- Feature a track from your latest album at All About Jazz- Free!
- Create or update your musician page. One musician returned to update his musician page after 15 years! It's never too late! :-)
