Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz

Classical Music Portal

Welcome to the WikiProject on jazz music! If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on my talk page or the project talk page. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 03:59, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Title

WikiProject on Jazz Music

Scope

This WikiProject aims to do the following:

• Standardize and improve existing jazz-related articles, keeping in mind Wikipedia's policies regarding WP:NPOV.
• Create any needed jazz articles.
• Elevate as many jazz-related articles as possible to Good or Featured status.
• Coordinate positive contributions to articles relating to all aspects and styles of jazz.

What this WikiProject does not aim to do:

• Act in an exclusionary way toward any particular styles of jazz or any jazz musicians.

How you can help

• Any improvement to jazz-related articles, no matter how minor, is welcome. Copyediting is always welcome!
• Add appropriate media to articles. Make sure any media (particularly images) used in jazz-related articles is tagged and used properly. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.
• If there is a jazz-related article that Wikipedia doesn't currently have, create one! It doesn't have to be a masterpiece; a stub will do at first.
• Properly categorizing musicians by particular genres of the jazz idiom. Please use Category:Jazz musicians by genre as a guide, and familiarize yourself with the page. Many of the genres have sub-genres, so be sure to open the drop down lists!

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject music genres.

Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Opera
• WikiProject Computer music
• WikiProject Electronic music
• WikiProject Indie music

Tools

Templates

• Project banner: {{Jazz-music-project}} - Should be placed at or near the top of all talk pages on jazz-related articles. Talk pages with this banner will automatically show in Category:WikiProject Jazz articles.
• {{Infobox Album}} - To be used in all articles about jazz albums.
• {{Allmusicguide}} - Provides an easy method to create External links to All Music Guide articles.
• {{NewGroveJazz2002}} - Provides a quick, standard method of citing the 2nd ed. of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. (Ideally, we should use Grove's own sources, if available.)

Stubs

• {{jazz-album-stub}} - For short articles relating to jazz albums.
• {{US-jazz-musician-stub}} - For short biographical articles on US jazz musicians.
• {{jazz-composition-stub}} - For short articles regarding jazz songs or compositions.

Categories

• Typically, all jazz album articles should have a category named Artist albums. That category, in turn, should have the Category:Albums by artist and Jazz albums categories added to it. (see Category:John Coltrane albums for an example)

• Article relating to jazz vocalists should also be added to Category:Jazz vocal albums.

Participants

(new participants, please add your name to the bottom of the list.)

• Cholmes75
• Infrogmation
• JoeTrumpet
• tgheretford
• mako
• MrTroy
• BNutzer (talk · contribs)
• Kestenbaum
• Reisio
• Efo
• SingCal
• Mind meal - cite, cite cite is my motto
• PhattyFatt
• Shploo - Not a huge expert but I'd like to help out.
• Jechasteen
• Tvccs
• T. Anthony - Not an expert, but I hope to expand coveraged on African and Asian jazz.
• ND - more of a nitpicker than an article-starter but I try to help.
• Rictus - working on a draft article on jazz theory (since the main articles on music theory are almost exclusively about classical theory).
• Gronkmeister - Willing to help in any way.
• John FitzGerald
• royblumy
• Olivier Langelaar
• -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs}
• Internazionale
• Moeron (talk · contribs) - very concentrated effort on jazz articles lately, including a wealth of albums for many performers. Also, I will be getting the eighth edition of The Penguin Guide to Jazz soon, so if anyone would like me to look up information from there, just me a message at User Talk:Moeron.
• AUTiger ʃ ^talk/_work - will try to help out here a bit; not an expert, but I did host/program the Jazz show on my college radio station.
• Belovedfreak
• User:Abronkeeler
• Gyrofrog - would love to help out, as time allows. I put up Caravan of Dreams and a few stub articles before I found this project.
• Zadernet
• User:MarkpianoKC - I'm slowly adding pieces of Kansas City jazz history and historic jazz landmarks - i.e. - the Mutual Musicians Foundation
• Sluzzelin
• User:Christiern Albertson - Formerly Nurdley, I have been adding/correcting facts here and there, concentrating on subjects about which I have first-hand knowledge.
• User:Harrywhalley interested in expanding music theory articles
• User:JakeHaMo
• User:jollyjoegiant - I have a general knowledge of Jazz recordings and a good eye for proof reading
• Meaningful Username
• Weimont
• Mastrchf91 - I have a good knowledge of big band and smooth jazz, and good at tasks like proofreading and editing.
• User:Ralphscheider42
• Birdtrain - I've been doing very small grammatical changes here and there, but I hope to start doing some expanding of needed articles.
• Paul210 16:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC) I have added a couple of British Jazz and Blues entries and hope to continue this as well as edit which I do on a daily basis
• Tom Emerson - Interested in European (Italian, Polish) and Japanese jazz.
• Algabal - Particularly interested in classic American jazz and obscure/lesser-known figures.
• blueorpheus
• Stu Raven - Experienced musician with limited historic knowledge.
• Pharaohmø - Creator of jazz album stubs
•  ITAL - Avishai Cohen, Mark Guiliana and Heernt are my interests and concerns
• User: Blueswalk - I have a pretty good general knowledge of the music, and I have tried to fix some mistakes here and there and expand some entries.
• Freechild - I am interested in the music of North Omaha, and will continue to write about it extensively.
• Rover Segundo - Have bits of knowledge and can help a bit.
• Neburzaragoza
• Fenoxielo - Trumpet player and avid jazz fan.
• Henry Corvel - Semi-experienced jazz guitarist. Aspiring jazz pianst/bassist/trumpeter. Particularly interested in the music theory of jazz.
• Ignatiuswiki - Saxophonist/pianist, and avid jazz enthusiast who will help whenever or wherever needed.
• Charley Hart - relative of jazz saxophonist Lenny Hambro; will expand and monitor his bio.
• Ngoah89 - Aspiring Jazz guitarist studying at conservatory. Interest in almost all jazz with the exception of most "smooth jazz" artists and a few others here and there. Entry-level "jazz specialist" at a local music store and very knowledgeable.
• (♠Taifarious1♠)
• Bass Speaker III (talk)- In a jazz band at my school
• Ramírez72
• Kakofonous
• Sungminkwon
• helohe (talk) 23:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
• Jazzfann
•  Barkjon  - Likes jazz, plays drum kit and other percussion, used to play guitar, can read music (drums).
• MVNdude - doin what I can!
• Wrightjack
• Jazzilady I'm a musician and vocalist. I've been a jazz fan for most of my 57 years of life. Have seen, heard, and played with many jazz musicians and vocalists. I have my own archive of photographs and a really huge collection of jazz CD's. I'm a retired librarian and currently the webmaster for ClevelandEaton.com
• Maddie Coxhill Daughter of Lol Coxhill and responsible for lolcoxhill.com
• James Devlin Mainly jazz flute related material but also interest in living Scottish and British jazz artists
• Weissmann
• Sherwelthlangley Created the Essentially Ellington article

Userbox

The below userbox can be added to your user page to indicate your participation in the project. To add the userbox, just copy the following text and paste it somewhere on your user page — {{participant|Jazz}}. When the box is added, your name will automatically be included in Category:WikiProject Jazz participants.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Jazz.

Articles

All articles currently linked to this project link to this page, see What links here. This includes all talk pages with the project banner - they also show in Category:WikiProject Jazz articles.

Former featured articles

• Jazz
• Louis Armstrong
• Miles Davis

Good articles

• Billie Holiday
• Louis Jordan
• Kind of Blue

Requests and to-do

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Click here to add a request

Articles needing expansion or improvement

• Pepper Adams
• Lorez Alexandria*
• Louis Armstrong - B-class. Should be a GA or FA because Louis deserves it. Plenty of material, but it needs to be tighter.
• Iain Ballamy - telegram style, lots of headings
• Patricia Barber
• Beady Belle
• Jaelem Bhate
• Birdland (the famous NY club)
• Brian Blade - Lots of good information, needs citations
• Blue Note Records discography - self-explanatory
• Charlie Parker Omnibook - Marked for issues regarding references and notability
• Tiny Bradshaw
• Bunny Brunel - Stub, needs more biography and expanded discography
• Henry Busse - Trumpeter whose article needs references
• Bill Coon
• Crawford Grill - historic jazz club in Pittsburgh
• Jack DeJohnette - discography is massive, sortable would be nice... I started this in my sandbox, who wants to help me?! Cymbop (talk)
• Roy Eldridge – Getting close to Good Article standard
• European free jazz
• Dayramir Gonzalez deleted without prejudice re: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody/Articles
• Stephane Grapelli - needs expanding: highlights of the Hot Club, influence, private life
• Daniel Hersog
• Steve Kaldestad
• Brian Kellock - expansion
• Kind of Blue individual track articles need improvement
• Kimiko Kasai - expansion
• Lee Konitz - needs development, including sections
• Marian McPartland - Sort of stubby considering she's a fairly major figure.
• Mexican jazz - needs expansion, citations
• Enzo Nini - needs to be completely re-written
• Jimmy Palao - needs clean-up, citations and verification
• Walter Page general layout and esp. discography
• Art Pepper
• Austin Peralta
• Praful
• Gregory Charles Royal, have done some cleanup, not in the Jazz list, his brother Christopher Royal is a jazz trumpeter.
• john Serry Sr., questionable excessive editing of source citations and deletions of the article's text by User:EddieHugh should be reviewed by a more experienced editor familiar with the Big band era of Jazz in the USA (circa 1930's - 1950's) and the use of the accordion in jazz music in that era - see the Talk page)
• Ronnie Singer
• Smooth jazz - numerous concerns with violations of WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:RS and in turn, WP:N.
• Rex Stewart
• Sarah Vaughan
• Wally's Cafe on the dead end list - needs work
• Cootie Williams
• Johnny Windhurst

Requested articles

Please see Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Jazz

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums
• See also User:Mel Etitis's Jazz-L 100 project
• User:Chubbles/Missing American music - includes hundreds of jazz musicians, labels, and venues
• WP:MET - includes many missing jazz artists
• An Experiment in Modern Music: Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall (I'm unsure about the request; does this refer to a recording? Is a recording extant? Otherwise this is probably covered by Rhapsody in Blue and/or Aeolian Hall (New York). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:53, 7 December 2009 (UTC))
• Rich Pellegrin -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
• Dolly Dawn there are only two obituary articles and her nephew's page about her life on a quick Google search.
• Janet Evra
• Let's Face the Music and Dance - jazz composition; was classed as a stub but would like a revised assessment after having added to the article --Etredanslalune (talk) 02:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
• Global Music Foundation - mounting jazz courses, workshops, concerts and festivals since 2004 Jontel (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
• Teddy Joyce - Canadian who led a British dance band in the 1930s and 1940s. He had a relationship with the film actress Chili Bouchier and recorded for His Master's Voice. He also set up an all-girl band, which was a rarity in Britain at the time, and appeared in several films. 1 2 3 4
• Sydney Kyte - Leader of a British dance band in the 1930s who recorded for Regal Records, and was the resident bandleader at The Piccadilly Hotel in London. He was one of the featured dance band leaders on the widely distributed Lambert and Butler set of cigarette cards featuring British dance bands; nearly all the rest of the names have articles here. Kyte also appeared in films. 1 2 3 4 5
• Brian Lawrance - Australian-born singer and violinist who led a British dance band in the 1930s. Another one of the few featured dance band leaders on the Lambert and Butler collection of cigarette cards who do not have an article here. Vocalist with the bands of Maurice Winnick, Jay Wilbur, Debroy Somers, Carroll Gibbons, Jack Hylton, Lew Stone and Louis Levy. He recorded for Rex Records. 1 2 3 4
• Harry Leader - leader of a British dance band who made hundreds of records, including for His Master's Voice. He played saxophone and frequently appeared on the BBC's Music While You Work programme. 1 2 3
• Billy Thorburn - Pianist and leader of the popular British dance band "The Organ, The Dance Band and Me". He recorded for Parlophone Records. 1 2 3 4 5
• Peter Yorke - leader of a British dance band and light orchestral music composer, active from the 1930s to 1950s. He recorded for Zonophone, Decca and Columbia. He composed the theme music for the television series Emergency Ward 10. 1 2 3 https://www.robertfarnonsociety.org.uk/index.php/legends/peter-yorke 4

Re: the above additions. I added their names to Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Performers, bands and songwriters yesterday, but they all got reverted and removed on the basis that the sources did not show significant coverage (I'm doubtful that the rest of the current requests fulfil this criteria though). Therefore, I'm reluctant to add them to the Requested Jazz articles page linked above, even though the content of that page seems to lack suggested sources. The "Requested articles" rules are heavily biased towards contemporary artists - it's another example of Wikipedia's "recentism". There might be numerous mainstream music websites out there which are regarded as "RS" and write about every latest trend. Sources for artists whose heyday was pre-internet are going to be much less readily available online. The guidelines for Music notability also leans against artists from the pre-LP era with parts of the criteria list, ie. releasing two or more albums on a major label, sales certifications and achieving hits on a national chart. I'd be happy to contribute to articles about those named above, I just don't know if I have time to start all the articles myself.--TrottieTrue (talk) 15:54, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Portal to-do

• Expand, improve the layout and contribute to the jazz portal.
• Expand and add to the Jazz genre page on the jazz portal.

Images requested

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of jazz musicians

Possible sources for authors/editors

see also Jazz#External_links

• allmusic.com
• allaboutjazz.com
• Jazz Birthdays
• Saint Louis Jazz Calendar and Events
• http://www.jazzpages.com/jzzbirth_fr.htm Jazz Birthdays
• http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/dates/ Jazz jubilees 100 years
• http://www.redhotjazz.com/ Archive useful for jazz from before 1930.
• http://nfo.net/ Big Band Database
• Down Beat Artists Page
• http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Instruments/
• http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/J/Jazz/
• The Jazz Discography Project (GFDL)
• European Free Improvisation Pages at the University of Sheffield, U.K.