Jazz Jottings Going On Pause

A Re-ordering of Priorities . . . I have been fortunate in chronicling jazz events and personalities for this paper and its predecessors over the past 30-plus years. In the past decade, I have profiled more than 110 musicians and jazz advocates who have interesting and reflective stories to tell. Six years ago, I published a book, Jazz Beat: Notes on Classic Jazz, that was a compilation of 47 of these profiles, and which is now out of print. As our world of communications has evolved from print to digital, it occurred to me that there is historical value to these profiles and to the contributions these musicians have made to the jazz community. Additionally, I have long felt that these musicians are deserving of wider recognition and exposure beyond the readership of a single monthly publication with limited circulation. Amazon, which is becoming all-things-to-all-people, has come up with a process for writers to create both digital and paperback copies of their books and then market them on a worldwide basis. So with the assistance of a friend who is more technically-astute than I, the file of the 2013 book is being reformatted to Kindle Direct Publishing’s specifications and will ultimately produce an eBook and paperback of Jazz Beat: Notes on Classic Jazz. This process has me wading through uncharted waters and has been most time-consuming. I have realized that I have
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