"Music of the future, and Music of the past" © Chris Kennett- crikeyboy.blogspot.com
January 01 2010
The Pianobabbler does not resolve with the the New Year. He has No New Year Resolutions.
Not to say the Pianobabbler doesn't resolve at all. On the contrary. He lives every waking (and many sleeping) hours resolving. About music. About the music business. About his music. About his playing.
With the advent of the New Year and New Decade, I have no "must get to the gym more often" resolutions. Looking ahead, though, I've assembled 10 wishes, hopes, convictions and directions for 2010 and the 2010's. 10 for 10 and the 10's.
To wit:
10. Debates over music piracy will vanish, because (a) the industry will perfect distribution models that encourage people to pay for music. and (b) artists will grasp the value of giving content away to attract people to the performances.
9. People who don't like jazz will cease treating it like a hermetic monolith, as hard to penetrate- and as inviting -as Iran's nuclear program. Jazz embodies vast diversity. I don't like jazz falls in the same league as I don't like books.
8. People who do like jazz will cease treating it like a hermetic monolith, forbidden to those who have not memorized all of Miles Davis's solos 1960-1970. The sooner they embrace a connection between jazz and entertainment, the better off jazz will be. Miles, for all his gravitas, always entertained.
7. Art Tatum will become widely imprinted on the collective conscience as a historic titan of music and the piano.
6. Take Six will become widely imprinted on the collective conscience as living titans of music.
5. My cherished audiences will remain ever faithful, as my explorations in the musical ether go forward.
4. Symphronica (symphronica.com), my project with symphony orchestra, will take off.
3. The world will beat a door to the music of Daniela Nardi (danielanardi.com- aka my wife.)
2. All those people who complain about the horrid state of popular music, will stop listening to it.
1. On December 31, 2019, as the future rushes in, we will look back and say with sighing contentment that the 2010's was a damn good decade for music.
Happy New Year.
The Pianobabbler has babbled.
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