Thank you for contributing to AAJ, a unique jazz site covering the past, present, and future of improvised music.

We have assembled these guidelines to help maintain effective communication and stylistic uniformity throughout the site. We're also hoping that you can use the information in this section to enrich your writing.

These submission guidelines are meant to be taken as suggestions and not as hard-and-fast rules. If you have any feedback on any of these guidelines, please let the editor know. This is a working document. It's important that every writer continue to cultivate his or her own individual approach to writing, while the overall body of writing at AAJ maintains some stylistic coherence.

Above all, we'd like everyone to maintain a degree of professionalism. Approach the music and the artists with respect: always keep an open mind and a critical eye.

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last update: September 3, 2005