Stay away from this abusive moron.
I was contacted and asked to do an interview. I agreed and was sent a list of questions to answer as well as provide photos and video links. There was also an offer to enhance my promotion by paying them $150 euros. I provided the answers and promo material but ignored the enhancement. To which they replied "you didn't read the whole email, please pay the fee". I replied that I wasn't interested in buying an ad, I thought they just wanted an interview. This was met with a nasty email saying that I was rude and that they only dealt with cooperative artists, not people like me. When I wrote back and basically said "Sorry, my mistake. I thought I was dealing with a legitimate publication and not someone just looking to take my money" the response I got was (and I quote) "Have you seen our website, idiot".... I told him that was a great business model to call potential clients an idiot... The final response from this bozo "I will break your face on the site so that those who Google your stupid name know who you are, what you represent yourself, that you are responding to one of the biggest sites, or the media, that you are not interested, that what you saw on the site, that you got the impression of an advertising site , it's boring. Have you seen the festivals, thanks to the hundreds of musicians whom we lavishly finance. That amount is set to check how kindly the musician is, and then they get a hundredfold royalty at our festivals. You would be better if you said that he is a bum and has never seen so much money, corpse."One star for this experience is about 3 stars too many.Stay away...
James H Casson
Scumbags
Scumbags, plain & simple. Trying to extort artists and threaten them if they don't pay money for (terribly written) reviews that they attempt to coax artists into. Shameful & disgusting. If there was an option to leave 0 stars, I would.
Rob
Jazzandbluesnews.com is a total scam
Jazzandbluesnews.com is a total scam! Don't fall for it!!! Simon Sargsyan is one of the rudest and abusivest persons I cam across. He also blackmailed us. I agree he might be mentally unstable.
Henrietta
SCAMMERS WHO TARGET STRUGGLING…
SCAMMERS WHO TARGET STRUGGLING MUSICIANS TO ROB THEM OUT OF WHATEVER LITTLE MONEY THEY HAVE! Stay away!!! they will target you if you have an album out, asking you for an interview WITHOUT mentioning a fee then they will aggressively harass you to send them money to have it published. They have been periodically harassing me via email for almost a year, I'm very close to contacting the authorities. I will not pay their fee, so now they are threatening to write bad things about me...are you kidding me??? Please tell all your friends on social media to avoid those 2 scammers who barely speak English...Simon Sarg and Emmanuel Bolton! (Maybe you guys should get a real job !!!)
Moe Kronheim
Terrible person
Terrible person. Scam artist and extortionist. His site should be shut down and he should be charged.
Sam
This is text book extortion
Absolutely disgusting what this man does, if you don't pay him to review your record, he put you on his "bad musician" list. This is text book extortion, if I could review no stars I would. Do not communicate with this person under any circumstances. Jassbluesnews should be absolutely ashamed.
nathan van nus
This guy is scamming musicians
This guy is scamming musicians. he asks you to do an interview and once you've answered his questionnaire (that is the same for everyone) he asks you if you'd like to pay for an interview. If you don't pay his 150 euros for the interview he says all kinds of awful stuff about you. Extortionist. Beware.
Joshua Park
This is an extortion company/scam
This is an extortion company/scam. I believe the other reviews tell you everything you need to know, but here's the same story againHow this "journalist" (hahah) operates:He emails you (not the other way around...), requests an interview, then sends you a precomposed list of questions to promote your music through his publication. The questions you will receive have nothing to do with you personally, or your music From the looks of it, they were written out and saved years ago. He gets increasingly rude when you answer his questions in less than 24 hours. Then he asks/insists you to pay his fee for the interview to be posted (surprise!) When/If you decline, he insults you, your music, calls you a liar, whatever, and then posts all his criticisms alongside your interview on his "bad musician" page. If you receive an email from this company, be prepared to be slandered or pay his fee, those are the only two options. Total Scam, stay away
Dave Barnes
Simon is a bully as others have noted…
Simon is a bully as others have noted here. Plus, his interview questions are not thought out or personalized to the artist and are the same for every interview. I took a little longer answering his nonsense questions than i guess he would have liked, and when i didn't agree to PAY for an album review, he threatened to post my interview in the "bad musicians" page. I felt like i was being ambushed by this outlet the entire time.
Meghan
Simon Sarg (Simon Sargsyan
Simon Sarg (Simon Sargsyan, Armenian: Симон Саргсян) is a fake journalist/editor of JazzBluesNews - he plagiarized his "questions" from the Michael Limnios Blues Network. He scrapes "target" musicians from other sites website reviews, and invites them to be "interviewed' by email. His actual intent is to sell them ecommerce links from his "site" ( €120 Euro) to their album sales site. If you refuse his "ad buy" he becomes hostile and threatening. He may still "publish" the interview but will surround it with negative press, for example: "Interview with a bad musician, as if singer, problematic person" and/or "...in contrast to your thoughtless and mindless answers, I would understand the interrelationships and footnotes of the questions, and use them for my career, not make empty comments like you, your intelligence is low."Nobody should give this man any exposure, information, help or assistance in any way. BTW: he claims to have attended Berklee College of Music, but judging by his awful misuse and lack of understanding of the English Language, he would not have passed the enrollment.
Thomas
A website where Simon Sarg defames
A website where Simon Sarg defames, slanders, insults many musicians who do not want to collaborate with him,-also through emails- Pages like these should be closed unless the defamatory comments about the musicians were removed, violate the honor of people.
Enrique
A scammer in all sense
A scammer in all sense, violent in his attitude and despicable. According to a thread, famous page All About Jazz had issues with him due to copyright. This person should be banned from existence!
Mario Schmidt
This Simon guy is a bully to artists
This Simon guy is a bully to artists, he actually threatened to write bad reviews about one of my clients who didn't choose to advertise with him. His gimmick is, he offers to do an interview with the artist, but then insists on them running ads in his publication. Very bullying tactics. Beware!
Doug W. Deutsch
Terrible site and person
Terrible site and person. Sends email to artists, ask for free interview and then wants money. If person doesnt reply he publishes artist in "bad musicians" list on website and insults them. even famous musicians r there! what a thief, what a scam!
John Stewart
