The Jazz Bucket List

Forty jazz-related things to do before you die (or Keith Jarrett kills you)

To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of this magazine, we decided to come up with a list of jazz experiences to have before you die. A veritable jazz bucket list, if you will. Our thanks to readers, Facebook fans and friends and Twitter followers for their input. Here’s our Top 40. OK, get going.

Club-hop through NYC, starting uptown and continuing downtown and into Brooklyn. One drink per stop

Put on a house concert featuring local jazz artists

Take a tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens

Check out the Monterey Jazz Festival and buy a vintage festival poster

Visit 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 Jacquet

Watch Ken Burns’ JAZZ from start to finish and make a list of all the people you think should have been included

Listen to every Miles Davis CD in chronological order and dress accordingly for each period

Attend a jazz fantasy camp like Tritone or Gerald Veasley’s Bass Bootcamp

Hang “backstage” in the bowels of Fort Adams at the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival
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