need assistance - critics list/emails/contact

[AllenLowe]

with a major new CD project on the horizon (coming in 2-3 months, 3 cd set of my own blues stuff with Ribot/Rudd/Shipp) I have decided to set up my own little promotional wing; I just cannot afford to have anyone else do it for me. I have a good and substatial list of current and active critics but am discovering that it is difficult to find actual emails and other contact info, even on the internet (queries sent to general mailboxes go unanswered more often than not). I'm going to be doing a bit of Facebook searching, but I was also wondering if anyone out there in Jazz-ville has a decent or comprehensive emal list of jazz crtics of all media that they might be willing to share or even sell.

also, if you happen to be a critic, let me know, with your contact info, and I will put you on the list.

[RJ Spangler]

Scott Yanow sounds like your man.

http://www.scottyanow.com/index.html

[AllenLowe]

probably not a good idea - let's just say that we have......creative differences.....

[RJ Spangler]

Too bad, he does offer various lists for sale & at easonable prices. Maybe have a friend purchase them from him for you?

[AllenLowe]

actully, thanks to Tom Marcello here, I am in pretty good shape now for contacts -

and, honestly, I wouldn't give Yanow 10 cents for the Buddy Bolden cylinder. But we won't get into that now -

[RJ Spangler]

LOL!

[Johnny E]

Scott put me on his list and now I get every damn CD that comes down the pike. Unfortunately for every good disc I receive I get 100 lame/kitschy/cliché pieces of nastiness.

On a side note:

Tom - can I get that list too? Reptet just released a kitschy piece of crap ;-)

[Fer Urbina]

Allen, do you know this?

Jazzinstitut Darmstadt - journos list

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[Guest Bill Barton]

Slightly afield from what you're talking about, Allen, but perhaps helpful if you're looking for radio contacts too, is the Jazz Programmers List (it's a listserv).

http://lists.jazzweek.com/mailman/listinfo/jazzproglist

[Lazaro Vega]

I'd second the jazz programmer's list. You can see there, too, who's playing what (for the most part).

[AllenLowe]

thanks, everybody. I appreciate it. I am now aware that there are actually more jazz critics than people who buy jazz product.

[Lazaro Vega]

Yup. You can send out way more free ones then you'd actually sell......

[JSngry]

So....forcing reviewers to buy their own copies of new product would probably, what, double sales? Triple? Quadruple?

Right?

Right?

[Chuck Nessa]

+ 25% on some titles.

[JSngry]

You think that much?

[Chuck Nessa]

Not just thinking.

[JSngry]

I'm just wondering how much "natural curiosity" some of these people would have if they had to be curious on their own dime...

[paul secor]

I'm just wondering how much "natural curiosity" some of these people would have if they had to be curious on their own dime...

[Chuck Nessa]

Jim, watch your email box - your pm box must be filled - or I am blocked.

[JSngry]

You're not blocked. Got the email, appreciate it.

[AllenLowe]

it's funny this comes up because not too long ago I posted to some thread on Facebook that critics might be more discerning if they had to pay for their cds- the comment was not well received.