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Next month marks the 17th anniversary of this blog which I initiated in November 2008 as a gift to my friends.
Since that time I have posted over 4,000 features about Jazz and its makers free of charge.
Developing these pieces is a labor of love involving purchasing and maintaining a research library of CDs, books, magazines and videos, acquiring copyright permission, purchasing materials to create graphics, organizing archives, paying Google fees for continuing access to Blogger, the platform that I use to post these features, and a host of other incidental costs.
Blogger is not set up as a transactional site. There is no way for me to be paid for my writing on this URL.
For a little over a year now, I have been bringing up new features on Substack.com. This enables me to earn some revenue through paid subscription for which I request a $5 monthly fee. Just enter my name in the search box at Substack or enroll using the subscription sign up in the sidebar [righthand column] of the blog.
I have no plans to stop posting older work from the JazzProfiles archives along with videos and smaller anecdotes and vignettes.
But I do hope you will consider funding me on Substack so you can continue to enjoy my new writings.
The sidebar of the JazzProfiles blog also contains information about the books that I’ve published in my Jazz Readers series, all of which are available exclusively on Amazon in both paperback and eBook formats.
After the initial costs of publication have been met, I am donating 50% of my royalties from the sale of these books to the local school district to help individual students buy musical instruments.
My thanks to all of you who have already purchased copies of these anthologies.