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Publicist's Guide To All About Jazz

Leverage All About Jazz & Jazz Near You's collective readership and technical platform to more effectively promote your clients in the most strategic way possible. Read on to learn how...

Step 1: Establish your presence

It all starts with your free (publicity firm, record label, venue or festival) business page. If your page already exists, you can claim it; if your page does not exist, you can create it. As you can see from this example, you can present information about your business including links and contact information. Your page is fully integrated with All About Jazz and provides quick access to your posted news announcements and client coverage.

We have well over 50,000 business listings in our directory, so first search Jazz Near You to see if your business is listed. Like this...



If your business does not appear in the search results, you can add it here (by clicking ADD).

For Your Musician Clients

  • Claim or create their (free) musician / band page or simply encourage them to do the same. Our Musician Primer page answers the what, why and how.

  • Purchase our press release posting and distribution service. Learn more here.

  • View our active staff member's here.

  • View album reviews ahead of their published date here.

  • Find a good fit All About Jazz writer for album review consideration here.

  • Familiarize yourself with our Musician Toolkit page.

  • Our Song of the Day service is free and provides excellent exposure for your client and their music. Learn more here.


For Your Venue and/or Festival Clients


  • Make sure your venue or festival clients are listed at Jazz Near You. Click the SEARCH button in the navigation bar here. If listed, claim their page; if not listed, create their page.

  • Purchase our press release posting and distribution service. Learn more here.

  • Upload events to Jazz Near You (it's free). We offer three methods: submission form (supports single and recurring events; CSV upload (batched events from a spreadsheet); and feeds (ics, xml and json).

  • Sponsor our weekly newsletter with a run-of-list or geo-targeted ad.


For Your Record Label Clients


  • Create or claim your free (record label) business page (example). Track album reviews and upload new albums from this page.

  • Purchase our press release posting and distribution service. Learn more here.

  • Find a good fit All About Jazz writer for album review consideration here.

  • Our Song of the Day service is free and provides excellent exposure for your client and their music. Learn more here.

  • Encourage them to purchase Record Label of the Week. Learn more here.

  • Contact us about our contest giveaways. We work primarily with record labels on this free and best-in-class promotional service.


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