Talk:George E. Lewis

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Discography: level of detail
I've tried to include every album I know of on which Lewis plays throughout, or at least on a very substantial portion. I think it's better we leave out releases where Lewis only appears on a track or two; there's plenty of room on discogs.com for that stuff. SethTisue (talk) 20:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Article name
Should this article be moved to George E. Lewis (currently a redirect)? The Penguin Guide to Jazz credits him as such. However, I must admit unfamiliarity with the subject. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I think so. That is how he appears in current scholarly circles, and he does work in fields outside of trombone. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I agree. Lewis' work as an author and composer reaches a wider audience than his trombone performance. Identifying him primarily as a trombonist seems unnecessarily narrow. Willardthecat (talk) 04:53, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ,, –– I was thinking the same thing & now see the conversation already happened a year ago, so will go ahead & make the move! Agreed that there's plenty of justification for moving it as per WP:MOVE, e.g., "The title does not follow Wikipedia's naming conventions, such as that it is not the common name of the subject or it is overprecise." Thanks for establishing consensus here. :) Knifegames (talk) 10:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

missing sideman listing
George Lewis was also involved with the ensemble "Duck and Cover" and recorded at the 'Festival des Politischen Liedes', 2/16/1986 in Berlin. The performance was released twice by the sound magazine 'ReR Quarterly' in 'vol.1 no.2' and in 'Selections from Vol.1.'. 131.74.110.168 (talk) 16:33, 27 May 2010 (UTC)S. Castle

Organization
I added a chunk on Lewis's pre-Solo Trombone years, & for now have decided to split sections into "Early life" (birth through high school, 1952-1969) and "Education and joining the AACM" (1969-1974), which includes his time at Yale and the year off in the middle when he joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

This seemed to make the most sense, but I'm open to feedback––and I especially welcome any thoughts on subsections within "Career", or examples of well-organized articles on comparable artist-scholars! Knifegames (talk) 21:01, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Discography by release year
I know this can be a point of contention for Jazz Heads, but I'm reorganizing the discography by year of release –– but the goal is to eventually have everything in wikitables that can be sorted by year of release or recording. So far I've only done that formatting for the "As sole leader" subsection:


 * References

There are a few reasons for this, but it's mostly about consistency & accuracy, as the release year is much easier to find and confirm; I'm hopeful that including both is a good happy medium, & I'll double-check more of that info as I add refs.

Open to feedback on included material, names for table columns, etc. (e.g. I'm hoping "Rec." is clear as "recorded," as the abbreviation keeps the column narrow & helps overall readability). I've also reformatted the "articles and chapters" section as a reflist (mostly for readability); no idea how to tackle the "compositions" section given massive overlap w/ discog, so leaving that for now, but hope to eventually move those to a stand-alone George E. Lewis discography (or "complete works") page. // Knifegames (talk) 08:40, 23 March 2023 (UTC)