Barnes & Noble.com Launches Jazz Recommendation Service; Jazz Discovery Search Technology Offers Customers Personalized Recommendations And Song Samples.Business/Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) (www.bn.com) announced today the launch of Jazz Discovery, a jazz recommendation service that allows customers to listen to jazz samples and learn about jazz styles and artists before they buy. Jazz Discovery can be accessed at http://www.music.bn.com. The Barnes & Noble.com Jazz Discovery search is fast, easy and provides a personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. shopping experience unmatched in e-commerce. For example, a customer may begin a search of dance and swing music by listening to song samples ranging from Benny Goodman Noun 1. Benny Goodman - United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) Benjamin David Goodman, Goodman, King of Swing to Tito Puente Tito Puente, Sr., (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000 or June 1, 2000 according to IMDb), born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and mambo musician. . The customer may then search for more jazz selections that are similar in style or refine the search by choosing to explore a style more deeply. In all cases, customers are presented with intuitive recommendations that will help them find the jazz that's suits them. At any time during searches, customers may listen to songs, discover similar selections, buy CDs or continue with their Jazz Discovery. The Barnes&Noble.com Jazz Discovery service consists of sections for new and advanced jazz listeners. The Beginner section offers customers an intuitive tour of jazz, allows them to hear classic and contemporary jazz that are hand picked to fit their tastes and learn more about the jazz they enjoy. At the end of each search, Jazz Discovery will recommend groups of jazz CDs that are personalized to reflect customers' choices. The Advanced section offers customers an easy way to listen to music from particular jazz artists, genres, eras or instruments. Customers can also search directly for songs or artists. The Advanced section includes biographies of premier jazz musicians This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles. Some of the most notable jazz musicians
Jazz genres (Alphabetical order) Genre Characteristics Era Acid jazz Combined elements of soul music, funk, disco, including looping beats and modal harmony 1980s-90s Avant-jazz Bebop and commentary about the contributions of various instruments to jazz. "In a world where jazz spans the artistic spectrum from Louis Armstrong to Kenny G, providing intelligent guidance is vital," said Daniel Blackman, vice president of Music and Video for Barnes & Noble.com. "By combining hundreds of hand-picked song samples with a powerful recommendation engine, Barnes & Noble.com's Jazz Discovery can steer both the novice and the aficionado A Spanish word that means fan, devotee, enthusiast, etc. There are loyal aficionados of every subject in the computer field. toward the jazz that's perfect for them." The Barnes & Noble.com Jazz Discovery is powered by a custom jazz application developed by Savage Beast Technologies. Savage Beast's Music Genome Project genome project 1 The Human Genome Project, see there 2. A general term for a coordinated research initiative for mapping and sequencing the genome of any organism (TM) is a powerful methodology for analyzing music based on hundreds of musical attributes and enables Jazz Discovery to recommend songs that are musically similar to customers' tastes in other songs. Barnes & Noble.com launched its Music Store in June 1999. The site offers hundreds of thousands of albums for sale, more that 20,000 artist biographies, more than 50,000 music reviews and album ratings. About Barnes & Noble.com Barnes & Noble.com is an Internet commerce company offering a comprehensive range of books and related information products, and has the largest audience reach of any brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. company with an Internet presence. It stocks the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles, supplemented by more than 20 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare and used book dealers. Its college textbook store offers a vast selection of new and used textbooks and its recently introduced eBookStore has established the company as a leader in the delivery of digital content and intellectual property. Barnes & Noble.com's excellence in e-commerce extends to the music business, where it was cited by Forbes.com as the No. 1 music site on the Web, for being "best-of-class for anyone who wants to learn about the music they're buying." The company's product ranges now include a full complement of information products, including DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and video. The company's focus on information products is manifest in its recently launched Barnes & Noble University, a distance learning forum offering free classes. Ranging from "Introduction to Programming" to "Introduction to XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. " to "The Night Sky: An Introduction to Astronomy astronomy, branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as planets, stars, and galaxies; more generally, the study of matter and energy in the universe at large. "" to "Walking through Shakespeare," Barnes & Noble University has quickly established itself as a leading Internet hub for learning and community. |
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