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    Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 8:50am
Our site is seeking fans of older jazz (pre-60s, Charley Parker, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins etc) and current jazz (post 90s, Brad Mehldau, Mary Halvarson, Matthew Shipp, Craig Taborn, Chris Potter etc) for reviews, album tagging etc.
Fans of bebop, post bop and hard bop from any era are also needed.
We also appreciate knowledgeable reviews in any genre or era, feel free to contribute.

Currently our site has okay coverage for jazz in the 60s to 80s, particularly fusion, but we are lacking in other areas.

If you are a knowledgeable jazz fan, feel free to go ahead and start reviewing albums. Any good review will automatically be featured on our front page and read by thousands of jazz fans all around the world. If you are not sure how to write reviews or use this site, feel free to ask questions in this thread, or contact me via personal message. If you are interested in other work such as genre tags, then writing reviews is the best way to start.

This is a volunteer site, the owner makes a small profit from ad sales, but myself and others on the site do not make any money from the site. Because of my many years of writing reviews, I do receive one or two CDs a week from promoters. 

I do hope you enjoy this labor of love and our attempt to record the history of jazz and jazz related music.


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Hi,

I have quite a few ECM artists, and will work on reviewing what I have. Gonna try to list them ...

Eberhard Weber
Charlie Haden
Egberto Gismonti
Terje Rypdal
Nana Vasconcellos
Jan Garbarek
Keith Jarrett (just 70's)
David Darling
.... 

I will re-listen to the stuff I have in order to review things right.

My "favorite" albums from that time? EOS, Eventyr and No Caipira. 

EOS, skip the first piece ... I warned you!) ... is the very best "chamber music" album ever recorded on modern instruments ... and it is beautiful ... it's just a shame that some folks don't like it because it really is not "jazz" at all ... but serious pieces of music in a style that we can not seem to enjoy much ... electric chamber music ... and it's a major WOW, and one of the best albums I own ... I wish more folks listened to it!

Also have a couple of solo albums by Ponty (70's), and though they are nice, they are not in my agenda to review unless it is needed. I like his work, but he is not exactly the best/better violin player out there, specially in the jazz area. Nice stuff ... though, but otherwise possibly too generic in a lot of areas and work.


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Hi,

I'm cutting back on my writing in the progressive area, and will try to concentrate more here. 

My tastes, are very different than most, and the one thing I do not like is the top ten thing, and the continuing relevance of the top ten mentality in the PA area ... and the saddest thing of all? If there are 100 bands, there are 100 threads on the top 5 and maybe one thread on the next 90 bands on the listing ... the appreciation for MUSIC, simply is not there anymore, not to mention that a lot of the "lists" made are based on one cut in the listens and not the albums ... a very sad state of affairs. 

In my mind it is literally impossible to listen to that much in a limited amount of time, unless you hunted and pecked (needle and peck we used to call it!!!) ... and then made up your mind about what it sounded like, and of course, the high school drumming, the same format and cookie cutting is everywhere.

The nice thing here, and in different areas of jass, is the variety is still there, but I hope that the artists get a better response, than the PA version ... there are good folks there, but sadly, they are not inside the areas that would help make a difference for the site. I keep thinking.

I'm of the opinion that a lot of what PA/JMA were thought and designed to be about, is about to need a slight change/update to things ... PA, for example, has some interesting Collaborators and Admins, and yet there is no interest in cleaning up a lot of the write ups on stuff that has changed since the days that it was created. And I'm not sure that many of the current write ups even make sense within a musical concept, history or design! And a band added yesterday to a specific area, would not have been added 10/15 years ago!!!! 

One area, for example, that could use some cleaning up the "reviews" that are not exactly reviews, and seem to have been added simply to improve ratings. One of the best examples, is KC's first album ... and half of those "reviews" are not reviews at all. 

As a side example, I just saw the special on Tower Records and it was plain obvious that they were up on the times and things, until the internet and downloads came around, when some in their group obviously thought that it all was stolen and free downloads .... and ignored a possible future, only to find that Apple and a couple of others cleaned up the whole thing, and not die from the downloads, which states that the folks running the enterprise did not get past the counting the money routine ... and I end up thinking that it is possible that PA/JMA are starting to fall out of its time ... and I certainly hope not, but at 74, I'm not sure I have 10/15 more years to help and post in the boards, after trudging through the usual 15 threads about Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes and ELP ... and the newer bands, or the lesser ones that are not from the Anglo-American group of things, is not enjoyed, appreciated, or even listened to ... "because they have no numbers" ... that's not about the music ... 


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