It happened a couple weeks ago. No one commented and likely no one noticed. The end came silently to the world. May have been all the attention to the US Presidential election or perhaps the excitement of the Cubs World Series drive. More likely, just the fact that in the daily hustle and bustle of life it was just too minor an event in the life of one small person for anyone to take notice.

What I am talking about is the closure of the web domain, www.jazzmandan.com. JMD was my connection to the world for sharing my music and my musical story. It was created some 15 years ago. Its reason and objective was always clear, simply track, document and create a record of my musical journey.

Over that years it went through several revisions / versions. In the beginning it served as a record of my music interest from an academic and instructional perspective. As I studied music theory and its application to the guitar, I used the site to log and present the material I learned.

In later years the site became the repository for my own musical recordings and video performances. It listed every music teacher, course and source of inspiration which guided and drove me along the way. It was my way to proclaim to the world regarding my guitar playing, “…you may say I can’t play, but you can never say that I didn’t play.”

They say “once on the web, always on the web.” If that is true, some day, some young musician may stumble upon the JMD archives and may find his own inspiration in what was once mine.

So you may wonder, why now?

I'd love to notify you all that I sold the website URL name "jazzmandan.com" and rights to use the "Jazzmandan" name to a company that was interested in using it for their commercial use. In fact, they really only wanted to lock the name so no one else has it and will likely not use it. Big companies will pay a fortune for having the right web presence. As a result, I am now financially secure, have quit the day job and have taken early retirement to continue to pursue my music full time.

Yes, indeed, I would love to tell you that, ...but that would not be true. grin The real reason is much less dramatic, "... it was just the right time".

So while Jazzmandan is gone, MusicStudent will carry on.

Merry Christmas to All and Happy New Year grin



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