Well, folks, it’s time to call it quits. This will probably be the last post for JazzboNotes.com, although the blog will be kept up for a while, at least until it’s time to renew my hosting contract.

In a way, it’s a relief. It was never all that much fun for me to criticize artists that weren’t doing their best work. Having gone to music school myself and having aspired to being a musician, I am well aware of how difficult it is for a jazz musician to make a living. I enjoyed talking up great music much more, but it was my responsibility as a critic to be more than a gladhander and an asskisser, as so many jazz critics are content to be.

A few of you might be wondering, “But what about all of the CD giveaway contests that you’re running?” Well, as it happens, not enough people have entered them for me to give away any CDs. Apparently, almost no one is interested in free jazz CDs. I’m going to leave the contests open for one more month to give readers a chance to get off their asses and enter the contests, and then they’ll close for good.

For those few readers who actually got something out of this website, I have some suggestions if you want to avoid your favorite websites going out of business.

You may think that you’re supporting this website simply by reading it, but that’s not true. Here’s how you support a website:

1) Click on the ads. That’s the life blood of websites like this.
2) Go on any social networking site like StumbleUpon and mark the website you want to support with a rave recommendation. Heck, go on all of them!
3) Tell all your friends about the website.
4) If you are on MySpace, talk about the website on your page and include a link to it.
5) If you have a website yourself, provide a permanent link to the website you want to support. You can also write about the website you want to support.

If a reasonable percentage of my readers had done this, I would still be writing reviews for this website.

Now, how do I know that readers weren’t supporting my website? Simple. I have software that tracks links to my website. If my readers were taking the steps I outlined here, my software would have told me so. Plus, my website would have been much more financially successful.

For those readers who enjoyed this website, you might want to check out my website about genre cinema, TrashCinemaClub.com. If you like what you see, support the website this time before it too goes the way of the dodo.

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