PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS INFORMAL (NON) SURVEY

I am trying to figure out where to focus my efforts in the next few months. I am leaning toward something I call OLD JAZZ, which will feature important jazz, much of which will probably be new to you, from prior to 1945.

This is incredible music; once in a while I will talk about well known players like Benny Goodman and Lester Young, but I primarily want to introduce you to things that have inspired me, great music that remains great as much as 100 years later.

Will this:

1. Make you subscribe?

2. Cause you to include me in your will?

3. Attract you as a reader?

4. Cause you to include me in your will (in case you missed the above)?

5. Interest you?

I know, some of that is redundant; but I DO want to hear from you - put a comment below, such as “leave me alone,” “buzz off,” “who asked you?” or, “hey that’s the best idea I have heard since the invention of the pet rock.”

But please give me some idea. This - Old Jazz - will have info about the musicians plus the actual music.

Pardon the plug, but David Hajdu, of Columbia University and formerly of the New Republic, has said:

“Allen is one of the most important music historians alive, an exceptional thinker who sees the entirety of American musical history with unmatched clarity. He's unbowed as an intellectual, driven by neither vogues or ideology. His work taken as a whole is a monumental achievement. There's no one better alive.”