Jazz Near You Launches!

[xricci]

I wanted to let everyone know that Jazz Near You is live!!

Three years of planning, one year of coding... it's hard to believe the day is finally here. Makes me want to...

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We currently have 188 Jazz Near You cities represented. Examples:

nyc.jazznearyou.com
chicago.jazznearyou.com
sanfrancisco.jazznearyou.com
london.jazznearyou.com
paris.jazznearyou.com
losangeles.jazznearyou.com
philadelphia.jazznearyou.com
baltimore.jazznearyou.com
boston.jazznearyou.com
amsterdam.jazznearyou.com
dallas.jazznearyou.com
kansascity.jazznearyou.com
stlouis.jazznearyou.com

Jazz Near You reads your IP address, identifies your location and presents you with your local page. So readers in Barcelona will see barcelona.jazznearyou.com, readers in Austin will see austin.jazznearyou.com, and so on.

You can change cities, see the top 30 cities (with the most jazz events) and translate the language at the site; so readers from Istanbul can translate instanbul.jazznearyou.com to Turkish.

[xricci]

We have lots of announcements to make and I'll post links to them in this thread.

So far we have...

Jazz Near You: Our Clean Data Initiative

Advertise at Jazz Near You and All About Jazz

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Three more related announcements:

Jazz Near You: How You Can Help Spread the Word

Jazz Near You: Top to Bottom

Jazz Near You and You and You! (Contributor Announcement)

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For presenters and musicians...

Jazz Near You is Here! Join the Party!

[Misnomer]

This is very cool!

[xricci]

Originally Posted by Misnomer

This is very cool!

good deal. and like aaj, jazz near you will continually improve. we're already working on several post-launch features and the app should be ready in november.

with the server stabilized, we're free to make the official launch announcement. i'll probably do that tomorrow.

[David D. Gitin]

Signing up not possible. The form tells me my email is already in database (for wrong city) and rejects the signup over and over.

[xricci]

Originally Posted by David D. Gitin

Signing up not possible. The form tells me my email is already in database (for wrong city) and rejects the signup over and over.

Hi David,

You already have a member account, so you don't need to sign up, you need to sign in. Your member page is here.

re: the wrong city message, what city were you entering? And can you share a screen shot (as JPG) so I can look at it?

[xricci]

Yesterday was the official/hard launch day.

You can read about it here, or...

Please help us spread the word to musicians, presenters, promoters and fans.

Highly anticipated website launches in two hundred cities—Mobile App to follow in November 2012



Philadelphia, PA: Until now, jazz music has lacked a single comprehensive source where fans could access upcoming event information locally and around the world. Now they can, with JazzNearYou.com.



AllAboutJazz.com, jazz music's most viewed and longest running website has launched JazzNearYou.com, an event- and community-driven website that alerts jazz fans to upcoming shows, news, and activity in 200 cities worldwide.



In addition to a comprehensive event guide, JazzNearYou.com provides an extensive venue and festival listing, photos, news, articles and links.



Carefully programmed for easy access, concert goers are automatically directed to their local events page, while travelers can view events in other cities. A reader traveling to London can change their page to london.jazznearyou.com; a reader traveling to Paris can change their page to paris.jazznearyou.com, and so on. Readers can even change the language setting, so readers in Istanbul can view their website in Turkish and readers in Italy can view their website in Italian.



Free to list, free to post!



Through its affiliation with AllAboutJazz.com, JazzNearYou.com already includes a directory of over 20,000 business listings and the website oftentimes receives over 1,000 new events in a single day.

Presenters, musicians, and promoters can choose from five different methods to submit events:

• a submission form (for single and recurring events);

• an upload form (for multiple events);

• an export file;

• a musician's GigPress feed;

• the ArtistData feed.

Once entered, events appear across a network that includes JazzNearYou.com, AllAboutJazz.com, and the Jazz Near You weekly concert calendar email announcement.



“Jazz is a vastly untapped resource with tremendous potential," says All About Jazz / Jazz Near You Founder, Michael Ricci. “We repurposed the local capabilities of AllAboutJazz.com to create a series of rich media websites that can simultaneously serve and further unify hundreds of jazz communities worldwide. For folks in the business sector, this is about us supporting local jazz economies and helping local communities help themselves. JazzNearYou.com will inform fans daily, drive foot traffic to venues and drive ticket and merchandise sales. And by expanding the capabilities of AllAboutJazz.com, we can amplify our message and better connect people at the street level though organized outings to jazz events.”



Ricci concludes, “There was no single source for jazz event information until JazzNearYou.com. Our website will delight music fans by allowing them access to an unprecedented amount of information about live jazz; from New York to Tokyo and from Toronto to Buenos Aires.”


More Quotes

“Jazz Near You expands upon All About Jazz's commitment to bring us the most up-to-date happenings in our community—we couldn't be more excited!" —Ash Maynor, SFJAZZ.org

“Often the fascinating and potentially rewarding jazz concerts are not so easy to find, especially when you are visiting a new place—but even frequently in your home town. I fully expect Jazz Near You to become an invaluable resource for fans and presenters alike." —Oliver Weindling, Owner, Babel Label / Director, Vortex London

About JazzNearYou.com

Jazz Near You is a series of 200 event- and community driven websites serving jazz presenters, enthusiasts and professionals worldwide. As the leading aggregator and disseminator of jazz event information, Jazz Near You supports local jazz economies by helping them help themselves through the All About Jazz / Jazz Near You platform. Its companion app is available for free at iTunes.

About AllAboutJazz.com

All About Jazz is the most viewed and longest running jazz music website, attracting both enthusiasts and industry professionals since 1995. A daily resource of impressive depth and breadth, All About Jazz aggregates, publishes and syndicates a variety of jazz-oriented content daily and is committed to raising the awareness of jazz's cultural significance and historical legacy while actively celebrating the creative leaders of today.

All About Jazz is the highest ranked jazz music website in the world according to Alexa.com and Google.com and has received “best of the web” designations from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Forbes, and the BBC. It is a ten-time winner of the Jazz Journalist Association award for “Best website covering jazz.”

For more information contact: Michael Ricci