Tonight, where's the jazz?
How JazzNode decides which events appear in our jazz lists, and how we protect every venue's right to display their full programming.
Each event is marked as jazz or not by either the venue itself (when they self-publish) or our pipeline classifier (when we import from external sources). We deliberately do not maintain a public genre taxonomy — judgment calls are owned by humans.
Premium venues can self-publish events directly to JazzNode. When publishing, you choose whether each event is a jazz performance. Free venues are not self-publishing accounts — their events come from our pipeline and editorial team.
Every venue page on JazzNode is structured as Jazz Sessions plus Other Programs. Pure jazz venues see only the jazz section (the other section auto-hides when empty). Premium venues may opt into a single unified layout from their branding settings.
JazzNode's mission is to promote jazz, but that mission never compromises your venue's display rights or SEO:
Anyone with a JazzNode account can report an event using the small flag link on its card. We use a reverse design: events in the jazz feed get a 'doesn't feel like jazz' button, events outside the jazz feed get a 'should this be jazz' button. Once 3 distinct users report the same event for the same reason within 7 days, it enters our editor review queue.
When an editor confirms a report against a self-publishing paid venue, a strike is recorded:
Each strike automatically expires after 6 months. Strikes only apply to paid venues — Free venues do not self-publish, so there is no concept of strikes for them.
JazzNode is a home built by jazz lovers for jazz lovers. This policy isn't about gatekeeping — it's about keeping the homepage focused so that anyone landing on JazzNode finds jazz, and about giving venues with broader programming a clear, fair place to live alongside us. Thank you for sharing this home.