The book is based on a collection of more than 40 in-person and several more phone and email interviews with American jazz educators, club owners, festival organizers, scholars, radio presenters, record label executives, producers, sound engineers and others who create and support jazz. Cyril Moshkow, publisher and editor of Moscow-based Jazz.Ru, Russia’s only jazz magazine, signed a contract for his first jazz book, The Jazz Industry in America, to be published next summer in Russian by Planeta Muzyki, the St. Petersburg-based branch of Russia’s Lan publishing house. From 1998 to 2007, Cyril took 11 self-supported trips to the U.S. (some 25 weeks in total) to meet people in the jazz industry and visit jazz festivals, jazz clubs and jazz organizations in 10 states. He regards the book as his own 40th birthday present.