Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz

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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)

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 How you can help 4 Parentage 5 Descendant WikiProjects 6 Similar WikiProjects 7 Tools 7.1 Templates 7.2 Stubs 7.3 Categories 8 Participants 9 Userbox 10 Articles 10.1 Featured articles 10.2 Former featured articles 10.3 Good articles 11 Requests and to-do 11.1 Articles needing expansion or improvement 11.2 Requested articles 11.3 Portal to-do 11.3.1 See also 12 Possible sources for authors/editors

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 or 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.

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

• {{Album infobox}} - To be used in all articles about jazz albums.
• {{Jazz-music-project}} - Should be placed at or near the top of all talk pages on jazz-related articles.

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
• PhattyFatt
• Shploo - Not a huge expert but I'd like to help out.
• Jechasteen
• Tvccs
• T. Anthony - Not an expert, have only 33 CDs of it, 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
• Wayne Miller - I'm a jazz fan and a copyeditor/formatter-type

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.

Articles

All articles currently linked to this project link to this page, see What links here.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

• Jazz
• Louis Armstrong
• Miles Davis

Good articles

• Billie Holiday
• Louis Jordan
• Sonny Rollins

Requests and to-do

Click here to add a request

Articles needing expansion or improvement Pepper Adams Iain Ballamy - telegram style, lots of headings Birdland (the famous NY club) Brazilian jazz - A fairly recognized genre[1] and important nation to jazz with a relatively paltry article. Bunny Brunel - Stub, needs more biography and expanded discography Crossover Jazz - This is not the same as fusion jazz and needs an article to describe it. Henry Busse - Trumpeter[2] whose article is under various warnings. Roy Eldridge European free jazz Marian McPartland - Sort of stubby considering she's a fairly major figure. Carmen McRae - The talk page says expansion is requested. Airto Moreira - Large, but on verification notice. Art Pepper Pee Wee Russell - Adequate size, but on reference notice. Antonio Sanchez - Long enough, but needs sources and more information. Andy Sheppard Rex Stewart Sarah Vaughan Cootie Williams Johnny Windhurst Tiny Bradshaw Helen Sung Stub, needs more ... Austin High School Gang - Just added -- currently a stub. Needs expansion. Tommy Turk - Ditto.

Requested articles If you are requesting a new article, please provide a reliable third party link, which includes information on the subject you are making a request for. If this is not possible, please provide a short description of the article you are requesting. American Jazz - see British jazz for comparison Members of Loose Tubes - various missing articles there, I cannot judge relevance. BNutzer The Sound of Jazz - An early TV special on jazz. Only six names are still red-linked, but all six seem relevant from what I can tell. Dakota Staton - (born Aliyah Rabia) Jazz singer, also performed blues and traditional pop.[3][4] Richard Tee - R&B and jazz-funk.[5][6] Louisiana Five - One of the first jazz bands to record.[7][8] The Fourth Way - jazz fusion band, with Michael White (violinist), Mike Nock, Ron McClure 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. See also Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Jazz

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)