d6jg wrote: > I don't think I have ever tried to compile a top ten list. I don't think > I could. Kind of Blue would come up for consideration but then so would > Sketches of Spain and also In A Silent Way. Then of course I'd have to > consider Headhunters and Blue Train, A Love Supreme and also Ornette > Coleman's Shape of Jazz to Come and all manor of other stuff loosely > called Jazz. I'd have to have some Rock and also some Blues - quite a > lot of each actually - so while I was deciding what I should have on my > Desert Island iPod (other portable music players are available) I'd > probably die of starvation first!
That's just one problem with top ten lists. My problem with these lists is that they tend to reduce music into a few neat little packages when there is so much more to music, in all it's forms and genres. Sure all the recordings you mentioned are great and worth of inclusion on any list, but what about all of the many other recordings that make up the world of music. I fear that these lists also run the risk of turning a living music into a dead music, a music with no place to go but backwards, much like what has become of, for the vast majority of people, classical music. It's Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and not much else. I really don't want people to think that jazz died 56 years ago when Kind of Blue was recorded nor would I want them to think rock music died in 1967 with the recording of Sgt. Pepper's. I like being inclusive rather than exclusive. Which of course means that I would need a really big Desert Island iPod. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104401 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
