....o prima che sia Jarrett ad ucciderti !L'intento è ovviamente canzonatorio e spensierato, il gusto ed i luoghi non possono che essere prettamente americani, ma le 40 cose da fare contengono anche molte dritte più che indovinate e salaci. Le ha scritte il giornalista Lee Mergner nell'ambito dei festeggiamenti per il quarantennale di Jazz Times e non mi rimane che pubblicarlo cosi' come si legge sul sito del magazine.Club-hop through NYC, starting uptown and continuing downtown and into Brooklyn. One drink per stopPut on a house concert featuring local jazz artistsTake a tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, QueensCheck out the Monterey Jazz Festival and buy a vintage festival posterVisit the graves of famous jazz musicians in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City. Among the jazz greats buried there are Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Greer, W.C. Handy, King Oliver, Milt Jackson and Illinois JacquetWatch Ken Burns’ JAZZ from start to finish and make a list of all the people you think should have been includedListen to every Miles Davis CD in chronological order and dress accordingly for each periodAttend a jazz fantasy camp like Tritone or Gerald Veasley’s Bass BootcampHang “backstage” in the bowels of Fort Adams at the CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalVisit the Village Vanguard and soak up the history from the bandstand and the wallsListen and pay handsomely for a performance by a street musician playing jazzCough as quietly as possible during a Keith Jarrett concert, without getting lectured orlambastedSit at the Tony Bennett table at the Blue Note and order the shrimp cocktailContribute a review of a favorite recent jazz CD to the Community section of JazzTimes.comWalk on hallowed ground at Congo Square in New OrleansListen to Wynton Marsalis jam in a hotel lobbyMemorize at least one solo from a famous jazz record and hum it for someone who might actually recognize itAttempt to catch at least a bit of every single act playing the West Village’s Winter Jazzfest or Undead JazzfestSpend a Saturday and $50 hunting for jazz albums at thrift stores and yard salesVisit the Institute of Jazz Studies at RutgersSee Sonny Rollins or Ornette Coleman perform anywhere, any timeEnjoy the summer moonlight behind the stage at Jazz à Juan in Juan-les-PinsVisit Preservation Hall in New OrleansTour the American Jazz Museum in Kansas CityHit up one or more of the premier summertime European festivals: Umbria Jazz in Perugia, Italy; Heineken Jazzaldia in San Sebastián, Spain…Go to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and hear the rest of the Carnegie Hall concert of 1957 that yielded 2005’s Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note). The remaining performances, so far unissued, include Sonny Rollins, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Zoot Sims with Chet Baker, and Ray Charles playing jazz backed by Ed BlackwellListen to Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz religiouslyGet your muck-proof white shrimper boots autographed by fans and artists at Jazz Fest in New OrleansGo to Cuba to see Chucho Valdés perform with Irakere during the Havana International Jazz FestivalBuy the CD of a local jazz musician playing a gig where no one pays attention to the music, everFind a retired and unknown jazz musician living in your area and interview him or her for your local paper or a Web siteWear your JazzTimes T-shirt and pace back and forth outside the offices ofDownBeat in Elmhurst, Ill.Sample the Big Easy barbecue and music of Kermit Ruffins with his Barbecue Swingers on a Thursday night at Vaughan’s in New OrleansExperience A-list vocal jazz in concert: Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson or Kurt Elling should do itVisit a local radio station and bring a gift for the likely underpaid and underappreciated jazz DJTake a picture of yourself standing on the stoop where the “A Great Day in Harlem” photo was shotTravel to Cape Town, South Africa, for the annual jazz festival, and take a music tour through the townshipsTake a son, daughter, niece or nephew to a children’s program at Jazz at Lincoln CenterGo on a jazz cruise and don’t gain 10 poundsRecord your memory of your first encounter with jazz for StoryCorps (storycorps.org), where it will be housed at the Smithsonian
