It has been nearly a decade and a half since my last post here. That was longer than I had anticipated. There were plenty of practical reasons for my absence. One big one was simply a lack of time as I focused on adjusting to a new job and continued my role parenting at the time a teen and two small children. They are all grown now. This blog was also something of a side project I had going in conjunction with a radio show I hosted from 2004 - 2010. Once I signed off for the last time, the original reason for this blog was done. My network of jazzheads faded away, as you can see from the blogroll.
A lot of what I did was share files of rare out of print LPs. There are some disagreements to be had about the ethics of doing so. Although I personally don't have a problem with sharing music that will likely never be in print again, as there is no profit left to squeeze out of LPs that probably sold at a loss anyway, others will disagree. In any event, the mechanism by which I did share files (Rapidshare) has been defunct for a decade. I haven't bothered to explore other avenues, and at this juncture have no intention to do so.
In the meantime, the posts do offer an archive of information on a lot of great albums from great artists who deserve far more appreciation than they may have received during their lifetimes. Those deserve to remain to be read. And if you are able to find a rare gem in a used record store, consider yourself fortunate.
If I update this blog in the future, it will likely have a different focus. I would want to think on that for a while.