Project Livestream Jazz: An Update—Plus All About Jazz's Binge-Worthy Content—Early April Edition

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

• We presented an exclusive livestream with Los Angeles-based singer, song-writer and multi-instrumentalist Joanna Wallfisch this past Saturday. In case you missed her performance where she sung, played, shared artwork, told stories, and read from her book The Great Song Cycle: Portland to Los Angeles on Two Wheels and a Song—you can watch it in its entirety here.
• The Jazz Near You calendar supports livestream events. Learn how to upload your event here.
• Here's our master list of upcoming livestream events and here's a list of livestreaming venues.
• You can help promote livestream jazz events by embedding the livestream jazz calendar on your website or blog. Learn more here.
• To help raise the awareness of a terrific cause, All About Jazz broadcasted some of the Live From Our Living Room Festival and Fundraiser events. Hopefully you caught some of them. You can learn more about the festival here.

Got the cooped up blues? We highly recommend:

• We're looking to recruit an army of semi-internet savvy jazz lovers to help us maintain our monstrous jazz musician directory. We promise it's fun, takes very little time—it's also an enormous help to us as we focus on the livestream project. Learn more about how you can adopt & maintain a musician page here.
• Interviews! We chatted up Wolfgang Muthspiel, Derrick Hodge, Keyon Harrold, Lisa Marie Simmons, George Garzone and Chuck Redd.
• Featured Articles: Five musicians and a club owner discuss Jazz in the Time of Pandemic and Bob Reynolds shares his story about meeting Michael Brecker;
• Visit our album review section and discover new music. We publish four (sometimes five!) new reviews every day.
• Discover new music with All About Jazz's track of the day. It'll keep you busy for hours, possibly weeks.
• Our radio programs and podcasts provide countless hours of entertainment and discovery. Tune in to any of our ten shows.

Latest giveaway: Posi-Tone Records & Origin Records

Up for grabs are four Posi-Tone Records albums featuring some of today’s brightest young stars and strong veterans including Josh Lawrence, Roxy Coss, Behn Gillece, Alexa Tarantino, Nick Finzer, Jenny Hill, Michael Dease, Tim Green and more. Enter here.

There's still time left to 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.

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.

Do the pivot!

We're doing our best to rigorously pivot our platform to support our jazz musician friends and ourselves during this time of crisis. If you're not already suffering from donation fatigue, please consider supporting AAJ with a modest donation. As noted journalist and good friend, Joe Woodard stated when hearing about our directional shift to broadcasting livestreams, “this is great, and something AAJ is ideally and philosophically suited for." If you agree with Joe, please make a donation.

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