Jazz started over a hundred years ago and began as Ragtime. It originated in the African American communities in the southern United States. It began as a mixture of African and European music. Each culture has added to the genre of Jazz. There is no set definition of what Jazz means, but instead it is [...]

This blog is focused on the many great Tweeps on Twitter who love jazz, Blip jazz, and spread jazz. There’s a very large (and growing) network of people who actively promote jazz on Twitter — the music, the musicians, and the venues. This is an attempt to bring more focus to those efforts, as we [...]

Thanks to those of you reading this blog. This is my attempt to get people together — the people who love jazz deeply and promote it passionately on Twitter. I’ve seen jazz tweeps create new jazz fans, and I’ve seen the impact that tweeting and retweeting can have on attendance at jazz shows. I am [...]

This morning I set up a Digg account and submitted a bunch of blog posts and articles by jazz tweeps. This is a great way to get more exposure for jazz-related content as Digg can have a huge impact on search-engine ranking. If you already have a Digg account, please consider submitting content from the [...]

Our little Digg experiment is going well so far. In one day we’ve got a crew of 8 jazz tweeps Digging-up jazz content there, with quite a few articles, photos, and videos submitted. If you have a Digg acount, please check out some of the content that’s been submitted, or add some new jazz-related content (and [...]

I’m taking the lead here to attempt a “round-robin” style post and get responses from as many of the folks connected to the TwitJazzNet community. As both a musician and writer, I’m always interested in hearing what music is turning people on of late — not a new concept in blogging certainly, but given the [...]