Welcome to the new jazzier and more luxurious JazzWax hosted by Substack. To access, all you have to do is type in JazzWax.com. How’s that for easy?
After 18 years spent posting JazzWax for free, I’m now on a fee-based platform because that’s how Substack works and Substack is the gold standard. I’ve kept the fee as low as possible for the enormous value I’m providing.
If you chose the free option, you’ll receive just two free posts out of five per week but zero access to the rest of the site.
However, if you’re a paid subscriber, you’ll have unlimited access. This includes posts gloriously organized by category. That means if you just want to check out just my album commentaries or jazz documentaries, you just click on the Albums tab for one and the Films tab for the other. The other tabs give you what you want in one place. You also now can make comments.
Wait, there’s much more. Paid subscribers have full access to my former JazzWax archives under the “2007-2025” tab. Say what? Yep, we were able to siphon out all of my posts from the old site and import them here.
I have to tell you, the past three weeks haven’t been easy. On August 27, I received notification that my former platform was going belly-up. I fully intended to shutter JazzWax and move on.
What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. Within days, I heard from hundreds of my wonderful readers, but three in particular made a difference. Astonishingly, each had a different strength critical to this new site. All insisted I keep JazzWax going and were willing to pitch in to help make that happen. An offer I couldn’t refuse.
If you love JazzWax, you have three people to thank—Bret Primack in Mexico, Stuart Anello in New York’s Putnam County and Gilles D’Elia in Paris.
Gilles had recommended many months earlier that I make a move and he outlined how to do it. He planted the seed and anticipated a meltdown at my former location, and he was right. Bret was already on Substack and fluent in the platform. He spent days working with me to build out the site you see now. And Stuart, an attorney, jazz guitarist and coding wizard, rolled up his sleeves and over the course of weeks and many hours managed to pull all of my old posts loose and import them here for the archive you’re enjoying now. [Photo above, from left, Bret Primack with JazzWax reader Peter Coppock, this week in the Central Highlands of Mexico, by Paul Newton]
Plus, archive upgrades by Stuart are coming that will give you easy access to legacy interviews and specific content from JazzWax’s past. So, subscribers are getting two JazzWaxes—Classic JazzWax and Son of JazzWax. For just one price!
Like you, I am forever grateful to all three of these guys for their fierce commitment, vast knowledge, stony determination and powers of persuasion. A true global effort.
I know you’ll find the new JazzWax more comfy and rewarding, easier to read, more educational and crisply organized based on the categories I know you respond to most.
JazzWax also is now cellphone friendly. Download the Substack App to access JazzWax.com from your mobile device.
To touch base with me, my email is the same: marc@marcmyers.com
Now that we’re all together again, sit back, enjoy and off we go!
—Marc Myers
Smart move using Substack Marc, and for preserving your archives.
Marc, Damn it’s great to see JW and you back on track. You had to make the transition and looks like JazzWax is well positioned for an exciting future.