Saafir

is planning his best year yet


Saafir's 23 goals tagged jazz
  1. build my jazz collection by buying a dozen or more top-flight CDs in 2006 0 people
  2. listen to 40 jazz albums in 1 year 0 people
  3. get at least one person to understand why the Abbey Lincoln songs "Left Alone" and "Throw It Away" make me cry almost every time I listen to them 0 people
  4. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 0 people
  5. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world. 5 people
  6. list all of my jazz collection on All Consuming 0 people
  7. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 1 person
  8. listen to one-hundred jazz albums in one year 0 people
  9. make three months worth of mp3 jazz cds 0 people
  10. see branford marsalis live in concert 0 people
  11. cultivate my skill at listening attentively to jazz recordings 0 people
  12. read the Encyclopedia Britannica article on jazz 0 people
  13. learn about 1920s jazz 2 people
  14. memorize all of the parts (bass, piano, and vocal) on the Sarah Vaughn "Swingin' Easy" album 0 people
  15. memorize all of the vocal parts on the Sarah Vaughan "Swingin' Easy" album 0 people
  16. get a job as a singing waiter 0 people
  17. learn more about Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and Duke Ellington 0 people
  18. practice like Coltrane 2 people
  19. transcribe the Miles Davis 1955 'Round About Midnight version of "All of You" 0 people
  20. finish the 600 hour challenge 3 people
  21. practice for seventeen hours this week 0 people
  22. make beautiful music: as infectious as Micheal Jackson with Quincy Jones, as elegiac as Eric Dolphy, as quirky and funky as Prince, as ebullient as Ella, as doggedly passionate as Coltrane; 1 person
  23. collect 20,000 excellent songs (Jazz, Funk, Soul, Electronica, Avant-Garde, Folk, Blues, and Rock) 0 people

 

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