Winning a Grammy award is often the highlight of any professional musician’s career. From the time a person first starts singing or playing an instrument, the dream of hearing one’s name called and walking on stage to receive the award is what makes all the hard work worth it. There were winners in many categories [...]

It’s a southern thing, a very southern thing and it makes the young and the old, the newcomers and the veterans return every year. They are drawn by the magic and the music that is the New Orleans Jazz Festival, known to the local population simply as Jazz Fest. This annual event celebrates the unique [...]

Twitter is a great way to share what I’m thinking about, but it’s a bit hard to share what I’m listening to, especially if I’m working around my apartment. But after finding an ATT Uverse coupon code 2012, I signed up for ATT Uverse and discovered that they offer a number of really great interactive [...]

Jazz music began its origin in the early 1900’s in the auspicious city of New Orléans. Over the course of decades, it developed an assortment of complex styles with the introduction of scat singing, be-bopping, traditional jazz, jiving, down-to-earth funk, and the powerful, exciting, boogie-woogie. Today jazz lovers come in droves wanting not only to [...]

Put a group of talented jazz musicians together, and they’re likely to turn out a wonderfully improvised and harmonious sound. Given the long and varied history of jazz music, that same group might be less likely to agree on a list of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. Still, a few names would be [...]

Jazz was created by mixing genres of music together, taking the best things from each one, compiling them and then creating the new style. Jazz goes back to the early part of the 20th century. The African Americans’ jazz tradition has been a part of history for over 100 years. Jazz is created by improvising [...]

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 [...]