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Welcome to Jazzspot
For nearly 7 years, I have been thrilled when someone happened to find Jazzspot, an island of jazz commentary, celebration and criticism on the internet. As the internet has consolidated and become "more sophisticated," I find
that people need more and better independent voices for the wealth of small label, hard-to-find jazz music, as well as links to in-depth scholarship, criticism and commerce. Jazzspot will address these goals, and will serve
anyone, not merely customers, with friendly, one-to-one, hands-on service and support. Since Jazzspot has provided these services anyway in the past, the only change is that now we will have something for sale, and will also allow
musicians - including those with CDs to sell - the opportunity to offer those products through an e-commerce system. (This system will also be robust enough to drive other types of products - please
contact us for more details.
On the internet, we know that number of visitors and financial strength count. Therefore, we hope to develop this site into one of such size and strength that we gain recognition for smaller labels without broad distribution and shelf
space in local retail stores. (Most stores know little about small-label artists anyway, and even less if their area us not served by a jazz radio station.) If you support the site
and its products, and we develop new visitors, I plan that we will be able to fund this endeavor and new offers and services suited for a jazz and music-loving community.
We will continue to offer products such as the incredible 1952 pictorial featuring Esther Bubley's Charlie Parker photographs. Hank O'Neal dug up this treasure,
and it remains the best kept secret in jazz collecting...
As always, please contact us with comments, suggestions or article submissions. We appreciate your comments and your business.
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It's June, and we hope to have products for sale on Jazzspot by just after July 4. The number of products initially will be limited to a few dozen, but will include photographs
from Hank O'Neal, CDs from Nancy King and Steve Christofferson (and Nancy's first CD with tenor saxophonist Steve Wolfe), and some select graphics from artists Nancy Ostrovsky
and Barbara Mason.
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Products available from Jazzspot satellite sites will include Bert Truax's trumpet instructional DVD (Bert's Basic Brass) and non-music related images from
Barbara Mason (a fine printmaker from Portland, Oregon).
Musicians - click here to send me an e-mail regarding promoting your CDs and performances. We are very clear about letting artists
promote themselves and their work at Jazzspot, and we hope you will consider the nominal fee for listing yourself and selling your work here.
Hoping that we help uncover the next Nancy King, Irene Kral, Diane Hubka, Warren Vache' or John Pizzarelli,
I remain,
Dave Leonnig
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