[Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my recordings to?

[David Palmquist]

I have 3 grown kids, all of whom are musicians but only one of whom is 
marginally interested in OKOM.  She'll probably get a good chunk of my 
collection when I move on, but I intend to make sure three or four close 
musical friends get a limited number of first picks before she takes 
everything (assuming she wants everything).

If the idea is to have people who will enjoy it listen to your music, and 
to expose more people to OKOM, I really think the way to go is the public 
library system, rather than university.  I suspect, and will attract flame 
for writing this, that university kids will tend to listen to what's 
available when it fits their curriculums (is that a word?), whereas old and 
young alike can access and borrow from the good old public library.

In my neck of the woods, southwestern Canada, the public libraries have 
music lending collections.  The New Westminster library, which is my 
favourite, has tons of CD's of all genres, lots of LP's (although they 
aren't so prominently displayed anymore) and racks of cassette tapes.  They 
also lend videos, and now I see they're edging into DVD's.  You can borrow 
up to 10 of each audio medium at a time, for 2 weeks.  Surrey has a big 
collection too, somewhat less well-cared-for, but you can keep them 3 
weeks.  Vancouver is somewhat more restrictive, I think you can have 2 at a 
time, for 1 week.   Vancouver does, however, have a great collection of 
"long-hair" scores you can borrow.

David (in Delta)


At 21:25 25-11-02, Dan Augustine wrote:
>Folks--
>     Intimations of mortality: just wondering what i'm going to do with 
> all my recordings when i die (hopefully not for a couple of decades 
> yet).  I don't have very many, compared with some/most of you, but still. 
> Guess i could just will them to my brother's kids (i'm single), but they 
> don't know anything about this kind of music, probably don't like it.
>     The other option is to give them to a university music school--in my 
> case, either University of Nevada at Reno, or here at UT Austin.
>     But wouldn't it be nice with there were other options?  What about 
> giving my collection to an American Dixieland Library (not yet created), 
> along with other folks' collections, so that a great incredible history 
> of recorded OKOM would be available for fans, kids, scholars, 
> musicians.  Digitize them for posterity.
>     Or, if that's not possible, how about donating them somewhere, but 
> then creating a world-wide database of dixieland collections at libraries 
> and such from all over the world.  That might be even better.
>     I just hate to see libraries and music schools get these great 
> recordings and not care about them and not use them and make them 
> available, nor have any way for fans and scholars to know they're available.
>     Just pre-midnight lucubrations and nattering on....
>
>Dan
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