old music that you love

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

looking at tom's popular entry on louis armstrong -- whose 20s music i ADORE -- and thinking abt the lex's "b-but i am too young to know" device, i started thinkin abt CUT-OFF POINTS IN TASTE

ie do you or do you not have an EARLIER THAN THIS I CANNOT GO as part of yr listenin armoury? if so sa wot

the earliest piece of music i am aware of liking is SALTARELLO (warnin: may be locked to non-sukratlings) -- it is 700 years old!

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[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

i like older things but despite desultory efforts at working my way back with jazz only ellington's blanton-webster recordings from the 40s (the earliest band stuff i've just started listening to, but it's not quite out of the old timey feel for me to feel comfortable with yet) and any number of early 20c. blues recordings feel natural to me - only with those do i feel like i know where i'm at, respond intuitively, not chafe or balk or get bored or find something awkward, etc.

i think (and think i am OTM) that proper at-homeness takes a lot of familiarity with particular recordings, for me, as well as breadth, and the latter esp. is slow in coming when not intentionally sought.

(along those lines any number of things from the 80s still remain somewhat foreign to me.)