Musical New Year's resolutions

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

There are a few musicians and bands that I think I ought to get round to having a bit of a push on next year.

1 Sello Manyaka - a South African sax player in the Kippie Moeketsi tradition. I just found out that he's playing (or was recently) with the latest edition of the African Jazz Pioneers. I don't have any records of that band anyway, from any era, so that's one band I'm going to have a go at.

2 Teddy Wilson - I'm determined to start getting the Hep series of his thirties recordings.

3 Andy Kirk - I don't have a thing of his, but this band is definitely one I think I ought to have quite a good collection of. Any suggestions about the best way to get Kirk?

4 Lucky Millinder - another band I have nothing of. I think I want to start with the Decca material, then the King recordings. Again, any suggestions about the best way to get these?

What are you interested in exploring next year?

MG

[Dan Gould]

I have no doubt that my exploration will continue in the blues/R&B realm. As MG knows, I have recently discovered, and been blown away by, Junior Parker. I've now got several more of his later-era LPs en route, and after the holidays, I expect that I'll continue to search out other recordings, unless the near-impossible happens and I decide that his Groove Merchant era wasn't all that great.

Aside from that, I plan - or at least hope - to cut way back on any additional purchases. I need to begin to explore last Christmas' gift to myself, which was the complete set of "Blues Collection" CDs. While I've already discovered a lot of the artists that were included, there are plenty I haven't encountered yet and its time that I dive into that set.

[BeBop]

Man, all I want to do after a year away from music is listen...to anything. Ultimately, it's still something of a dream; I know I'll be on the road again within a couple of days. But perhaps to a place with...uh...electricity!

[mikeweil]

I will get myself together and conceive, practice and record a CD of frame drum solos - something I have in mind for several years now, but too many things were distracting me from such a project.

I will finally get my webistes online and publish the Cal Tjader disco, as well as others on Don Patterson, Carla White, Melvin Rhyne, and others - a concise version of the Tjader disco will be included in an upcoming Tjader biography.

[AllenLowe]

1) finish editing my rock and roll history

2) finish my novel

3) compose a new repertoire for a band I am putting together (maybe end up with 10-20 compositions in the book) -

4) find a space for open rehearsal/performances

Edited December 7, 2007 by AllenLowe

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

1) finish editing my rock and roll history

2) finish my novel

3) compose a new repertoire for a band I am putting together (maybe end up with 10-20 compositions in the book) -

4) find a space for open rehearsal/performances

I have more than a sneaking suspicion that none of that is a joke (well, maybe the first is).

Good luck!

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I will get myself together and conceive, practice and record a CD of frame drum solos - something I have in mind for several years now, but too many things were distracting me from such a project.

I will finally get my webistes online and publish the Cal Tjader disco, as well as others on Don Patterson, Carla White, Melvin Rhyne, and others - a concise version of the Tjader disco will be included in an upcoming Tjader biography.

Yeah!

Good luck, to you too, Mike.

MG

[MoGrubb]

1. Get my 15" coaxial speaker into a more manageable cabinet.

2. Put a quintet or septet together.

3. Approach the local arts council for a handout.

[brownie]

Life beyond Organissimo...

and among various ventures, explore further the music collection I have gathered!

[rockefeller center]

In 2008 I will listen to and acquire Olivia Newton John recordings only.

[jazzbo]

Get deeper into Beethoven

[ejp626]

Being a bit compulsive about things, I am pleased that I have reorganized my music shelves. They are alphabetical, but now I have a stand-alone rack of roughly 600 of my "top" jazz recordings separate from the rest (mostly BN or OJC releases but some Verve and ECM sprinkled throughout). I am going to try to alternate, listening to a couple of old favorites, and then listen to some of the newer purchases (particularly unopened ones!) each day. I think this will help me from feeling so overwhelmed about having too much music. Also, the rack is a lot easier to reach than the rest of my collection, so I can grab something on the way out the door. So I guess I am going for a deeper appreciation of what I already have.

As far as other resolutions, I am going to go ahead and block Organissimo at work. I was doing this for about six months, but slipped up a while back. I'm certainly not going to vanish, but a better balance would be good (and more fair to my employers).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In 2008 I will listen to and acquire Olivia Newton John recordings only.

And about time too!

Will you look at the sleeves, as well?

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Being a bit compulsive about things, I am pleased that I have reorganized my music shelves. They are alphabetical, but now I have a stand-alone rack of roughly 600 of my "top" jazz recordings separate from the rest (mostly BN or OJC releases but some Verve and ECM sprinkled throughout). I am going to try to alternate, listening to a couple of old favorites, and then listen to some of the newer purchases (particularly unopened ones!) each day. I think this will help me from feeling so overwhelmed about having too much music. Also, the rack is a lot easier to reach than the rest of my collection, so I can grab something on the way out the door. So I guess I am going for a deeper appreciation of what I already have.

As far as other resolutions, I am going to go ahead and block Organissimo at work. I was doing this for about six months, but slipped up a while back. I'm certainly not going to vanish, but a better balance would be good (and more fair to my employers).

Here's a suggestion I picked up the other day off the blues forum. I have my albums listed in a database. So I fire it up each evening, open the query on the ones I've still got and aren't fucked or held purely for discographical reasons, close my eyes and push the down button for a few seconds - play whatever the cursor lands on! One or two an evening will see a lot of unfamiliar stuff surfacing. (You're allowed to cheat if you land on something you played the other day )

MG

[Hot Ptah]

I plan to buy over 1000 jazz CDs in the coming year and listen to at least 50 of them by the end of the year.

[bluesbro]

Improve my Ellington collection and get some more OJCs

[AllenLowe]

actually, it's no joke - I have a history of Rock and Roll, 1950-1970, that's finished except for the final edit - also, right now I am negotiating with JSP about possibly putting out a 4 CD set of rock and roll pre-history to go with it -

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

actually, it's no joke - I have a history of Rock and Roll, 1950-1970, that's finished except for the final edit - also, right now I am negotiating with JSP about possibly putting out a 4 CD set of rock and roll pre-history to go with it -

Renaissance man!

Surprised and interested. Hasn't it been covered by Charlie Gillette?

MG

[sidewinder]

and among various ventures, explore further the music collection I have gathered!

Ah, so that explains it ! Shall we send a search party into your vinyl racks if you haven't posted on the O-Board beyond a certain date?

[mikelz777]

More listening and less buying!!

Too many times I've been riffling through my collection and picked up a CD I really dug and forgot I even had. I once spent a good 15 to 20 minutes searching the internet for a good deal on a title that I subsequently realized I already had. I've got about 11 Mosaics and 2 or 3 Selects I've only listened to once. I have 20 Louis Armstrong and 18 Count Basie discs I've only listened to once and so on, so forth...

I know I've said I was going to try and buy less 2 or 3 times before and failed miserably but it's time to make another concerted effort. (As I wait in anticipation for 3 discs I picked up after what I thought would be my last buy of the year! )

[7/4]

More listening and less buying!!

Same here, I've been doing a bit of that for a few months. So...

• listen to all those boots I downloaded.
  
• listen to more of my collection.
  
• once my work situation is more stable, hire a bass player to jam with, maybe possible gigs.
  
• write that next string quartet.
  

There isn't anything I really want to check out. Maybe some more late 20th Century classical composers, more funny rat euro improv., more jazz gtr....maybe there is something I really want to check out!

[AndrewHill]

Unwrap and play cds that I have had sitting around for the last year.

[AllenLowe]

Gillette knows his stuff, but I find him a bit ideological - sort of in the "white people stole it all" camp - I take a much different view on the origins and development, and basically describe rock and roll as a white meditation on black forms - which is not to say that there were not great black rock and rollers like Bo Diddley and Hendrix - but that the ultimate development of the music was a basically "white" evolution of older black and white country forms - a position which has already led to three major university press rejections - one editor told me she loved the book but it wouldn't pass political muster; another almost hung up on me when I discussed a thing I'd written about Hendrix's liberation by white audiences and musicians (which I described as an ironic reversal of the usual paradigm of white musicians being liberated by black music) - so I will likely self-publish if nothing else comes up -

[Kalo]

Get that one-man-band thing going.

Read Allen Lowe's history of Rock and Roll, alternating with chapters of his book on 1950s Jazz.

Get a new turntable so I can once again listen to the 1,500+ LPs cluttering up my living space.

Finally take guitar lessons, even though I've been playing guitar for 25 years and have even been paid for it on occasion.

Stop wasting quite so much time on Organissimo forums.

[sidewinder]

Pick up the trombone and/or flugel again ! :rsly: