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As frequent visitors to the blog will no doubt observe, this notification has been posting on a recurring basis.
It will continue to do so over the next few weeks in order to make supporters of the blog aware of the coming changes.
Once again, I want to thank those of you who have financially subscribed to CerraJazz on Substack per the link below.
Although the annual subscription fees are modest, the revenue generated is helping considerably to offset the copyright permissions and self-publishing costs associated with forthcoming Gerry Mulligan Reader.
Thanks to your financial support, I am able to compile and annotate the book I wish to publish rather than have to contend with editors at commercial presses overruling my choices.
We are 8 annual subscriptions short of what we need to achieve our revenue goal to pay for the required copyright permissions, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
To reiterate, after almost 15 years of posting features free of charge on jazzprofiles.blogspot, we will be transitioning to the Substack online publishing platform as CerraJazz beginning on June 1, 2023 and continuing over the next few months.
The transition will be gradual although more new features will appear on CerraJazz with archived posts becoming the mainstay of our offerings on JazzProfiles.
The reasons for this change are many but the primary one is the opportunity to generate revenue through paid subscriptions.
The revenue is needed to pay copyright fees to Downbeat, other magazines, book publishers and musicians’ estates in order to use copyright protected articles, essays and interviews as part of a planned Gerry Mulligan Reader which will be made up of 52 selected writings.
Bound copies of the Gerry Mulligan Reader will be available on January 1, 2024 [or, perhaps sooner] and we will be offering it on a chapter-a-week basis for paid Substack subscriptions beginning on the first-of-the-year.
Anthologies of writings and interviews on pianists Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck are also in the planning stages as is one on composer, arranger and bandleader Stan Kenton and the often-forgotten composer and tenor saxophonist, Hank Mobley. These will also be on offer only to paid subscribers.
With this in mind, I hope you will consider a monthly, annual, or founding subscription by making a visit to cerra.substack.com/subscribe. The sums involved are modest. Of course, free subscriptions will continue to be offered for some features.
