Project:WikiProject Jazz

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WikiProject Jazz is a group of editors writing and maintaining Wikipedia's articles on all things jazz. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject music genres. On our project talk page, all editors working in the area (not just members) can exchange ideas and ask questions.

New members are always welcome! If you are new to Wikipedia, the first thing to do is to become a registered user – see Wikipedia:How to log in. (There is also an FAQ at Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.) If you wish to participate in WikiProject Jazz, then add your name to our participants section.

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Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

Improve and standardize existing jazz-related articles.
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.

This WikiProject does not aim to:

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, as is copyediting! Keep in mind Wikipedia's policies regarding neutral point of view.
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.
Add appropriate media to articles. Make sure any media (particularly images) used are tagged and used properly. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

Requests and to-do

To request a new article, to add to the list of articles needing expansion or improvement, or to find things to do at the jazz portal, go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/To do.

To see lists of jazz articles sorted by what cleanup they require, click on "Cleanup listing for this project" in the box in this section.

Alternatively, just add your comment to the jazz project's talk page.

Articles and assessments

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All articles linked to WikiProject Jazz link to this page, see What links here. This includes all talk pages with the project banner. The table to the right, which is updated every few days, summarises all these articles, by quality and importance – click on a number to see a list of all WikiProject Jazz articles of that kind. :Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Popular pages is a list of the most-viewed pages in the scope of the Project, refreshed monthly.

Listed below are any articles that are awaiting review for promotion to Featured Articles, Featured Lists or Good Articles, Articles for Deletion and Categories for Discussion:

Project members

Userbox

To show your involvement in the project, you can add one of the userboxes below to your user page. Just copy the following text and paste it somewhere on your user page – {{participant|Jazz}}, or {{User Wikiproject Jazz}}. When one of the boxes is added, your name will automatically be included in :Category:WikiProject Jazz participants.

Tools

=Templates=

Project banner: {{tl|WikiProject Jazz}} - Should be placed at or near the top of all talk pages on jazz-related articles, which will then appear automatically in :Category:WikiProject Jazz articles.
{{tl|Infobox musical artist}} - To be used in all articles about jazz artists and groups.
{{tl|Infobox album}} - To be used in all articles about jazz albums.

=Stubs=

{{tl|jazz-album-stub}} - For short articles relating to jazz albums.
{{tl|jazz-musician-stub}} - For short biographical articles on jazz musicians.
{{tl|jazz-composition-stub}} - For short articles on 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)
Articles relating to jazz vocalists should also be added to :Category:Jazz vocal albums.

Possible sources

Wikipedia pages

[https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Jazz.html Cleanup listing]
[http://reftag.appspot.com/ Citation template for Google Books]
:Category:Jazz awards
:Category:Jazz magazines
:Category:Jazz record labels
Most popular jazz pages by number of hits

Wikipedia documentation

Awards and sales

[http://www.billboard.com/charts/jazz-albums Billboard jazz chart]
[https://www.grammy.com Grammy Awards]
[https://www.independentmusicawards.com Independent Music Awards]
[http://www.officialcharts.com Official Charts UK]
[https://www.riaa.com Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)]

Biographies and interviews

[http://www.allmusic.com Allmusic]
[http://www.innerviews.org/interviews.html Interviews at Innerviews]
[https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz NEA Jazz Masters]
[http://www.npr.org/series/10208861/npr-s-jazz-profiles NPR Jazz Profiles]
[http://www.jazzbiographies.com/ Jazz Biographies.com]
[https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jazz-singers/online-exhibition.html Library of Congress online exhibition] Singers
[http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Red Hot Jazz Archive] before 1930
[http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz Smithsonian Jazz]
[http://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/collections-and-archives/smithsonian-jazz-oral-history-program Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program]
[http://musicrising.tulane.edu/listen/ William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz Oral History Database], Tulane University

Discographies

[http://www.allmusic.com Allmusic]
[http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/ Discography of American Historical Recordings]
[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/ Jazz Discography]
[http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]
[http://jdisc.columbia.edu/ J-Disc discography]
[http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Red Hot Jazz Archive] Jazz before 1930
[https://78records.wordpress.com/category/brian-rust-jazz-records-discography/ Brian Rust's Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942]

Magazines and webzines

[http://www.allaboutjazz.com All About Jazz]
[https://www.bassmusicianmagazine.com/ Bass Musician]
[https://www.bassplayer.com/ Bass Player]
[http://www.billboard.com Billboard]
{{URL|1=http://books.google.com/books?id=zxIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=billboard&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=2_2&atm_aiy=1940#all_issues_anchor|2=Billboard magazine}} back issues at Google Books
[http://bravemusician.com/ Brave Musician]
[http://www.downbeat.com/ DownBeat]
[https://drummerworld.com/ Drummerworld]
[http://www.jazzedmagazine.com/ JAZZed]
[http://www.jazzinsidemagazine.com/ Jazz Inside] (Eric Nemeyer)
[http://www.jazziz.com/ Jazziz]
[http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/ Jazz Journal] (UK)
[http://news.jazzjournalists.org/ Jazz Journalists Association]
[http://www.jazztimes.com/ Jazz Times]
[http://www.jazzweek.com/ Jazz Week]
[http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/ Jazzwise]
[http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/ Just Jazz Guitar]
[http://books.google.com/books?id=_zcDAAAAMBAJ JET magazine at Google Books]. See, for example, Art Simmons' "Paris Sketchpad" column.
[http://www.moderndrummer.com Modern Drummer]
[http://www.notreble.com/ No Treble]
[http://www.offbeat.com/ Offbeat] (New Orleans)
[https://www.pitchfork.com/ Pitchfork]
[https://www.popmaters.com/ Pop Matters]
[https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Subject/jazz Jazz section at Rock's Back Pages]
[https://www.rollingstone.com/ Rolling Stone]
[https://www.pastemagazine.com/ Paiste]
[https://www.premierguitar.com/ Premier Guitar]
[http://www.smoothjazzmag.com/ Smooth Jazz]
[https://www.stereophile.com/ Stereophile]
[http://www.vintageguitar.com/ Vintage Guitar]

Other sites

{{URL|http://www.local802afm.org/news-allegro/allegro/|Allegro}} newsletter from AFM local 802 (New York City). Jazz-related articles, obituaries
[http://www.tedgioia.com/ Ted Gioia]
[http://www.jazzednet.org/ Jazz Education Network]
[http://www.jazz.org/ Jazz at Lincoln Center]
[http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/dates/ Jazz News: Jazz jubilees 100 years] (as of 2008)
{{URL|http://jazzonline.com/|Jazz Online}} – their blog postings may not be appropriate as sources, but it also includes interviews, which are potentially useful.
[http://www.jazzresearch.com/ Jazz Research]
[http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm]
[http://www.jass.com/ Tom Morgan on early jazz]
[http://www.jazzwax.com/ Marc Myers at Jazzwax]
{{URL|1=http://www.austinchronicle.com/authors/harvey-pekar/|2=Harvey Pekar's writings}} (mostly jazz-related; mostly reviews) for The Austin Chronicle
[http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/ Terry Teachout]
{{URL|http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/mulligan/gm-home.html|Jeru: In the Words of Gerry Mulligan}}, oral autobiography. (While this is hosted online by the Library of Congress, it is used there by permission of Mulligan's widow. As such, it may not be free content, otherwise we could upload it to Wikisource.)
[http://www.tomhull.com Tom Hull - on the Web] – database of blogs and columns by jazz-focused critic, Tom Hull

Academic

{{URL|http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/surg/article/view/1028/1520|Bop, Rethought: Jazz, culture, and 'Art Music' in 1950s America}} (I think this is OK as per WP:SCHOLARSHIP)
{{URL|1=http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/MLCC/browse/?fq=dc_type%3Asound|2=Willis Conover Collection}} at the University of North Texas. Archived broadcasts include music and interviews.
[http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/ European Free Improvisation Pages] at the University of Sheffield, UK
{{URL|1=http://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/|2=Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives}} at University of the District of Columbia
{{URL|www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive/interviews|Hamilton College Jazz Archive}}, interviews
{{URL|www.jazzstudiesonline.org|Jazz Studies Online}}, Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

Books

Barth, Joe. Voices in Jazz Guitar
Berendt, Joachim. The Jazz Book
Carlton, Jim. Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists
Cooke, Mervyn. Pat Metheny: The ECM Years
Epperson, Bruce. More Important than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography
Erlewine, Michael. All Music Guide to Jazz
Feather, Leonard and Gitler, Ira. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz
Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards
Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
Kennedy, Rick. Little Labels, Big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
Kernfeld, Barry Dean, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (3 hardcover vols.)
Kernfeld, Barry Dean. What to Listen for in Jazz
Kernfeld, Barry Dean. The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz
Kirchner, Bill, ed. The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Marsalis, Wynton. Marsalis on Music.
Milkowski, Bill. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius
Millard, Andre. America on Record: A History of Record Sound
Milner, Greg. Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
Niles, Richard. The Pat Metheny Interviews
Ratliff, Ben. The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
Sallis, James. The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology
Yanow, Scott. Classic Jazz
Yanow, Scott. The Great Jazz Guitarists
Yanow, Scott. Swing

Portals

[http://www.jazzcorner.com/ Jazz Corner]
[http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/ Bob Keller's Jazz Page]

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