Talk:Piano Jazz

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What do the six-digit numbers mean?   15:26, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

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 * Ah. In that case, two follow-up questions:


 * (1) What day does "020100 Artie Shaw" refer to?
 * (2) As far as I can make out, the list is neither alphabetically nor chronologically ordered. Is there any other order which I fail to see?   20:30, 28 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I can see now that this is a chronological list. And "020100" probably means some time in January 2002. Wouldn't it be easier to read if it actually said "January 2002" or something like that? When I first saw this article I thought the numbers might refer to record labels or whatever.   20:36, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I reformatted the dates on the guest list/program log to the more legible and standardized YYYY-MM-DD format, and I changed the title of that section. I am troubled by the lack of sourcing for this partial program log. Where did this info come from? Could it be the personal records of a hobbyist who taped the shows off-air? It's also woefully incomplete (only 3 shows from 1999, for example). I don't know how many original (non-repeat) shows there were over the years, but possibly hundreds of her guests are not listed here, and it would be great to have a complete and authoritative list.99.108.21.36 (talk) 14:02, 21 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Responding to the questions of the previous paragraph, pretty much every specific date in the list can be tied to a web page on the NPR site, and those URLS could easily be added to each line. For example:
 * * 1990-10-17 [| Hickory House Trio]: Joe Morello: drums, Bill Crow: contrabass, first broadcast 1991-02-02
 * could be used instead of the current listing for the same info:
 * * 1991-02-02 Hickory House Trio
 * which has a first problem in that it gives a broadcast date (something that varies by radio station, since NPR gives local stations latitude to set their broadcast schedules) and a second problem in that it links to a non-existent page.
 * Alternately, ref links could be created, but that would greatly expand the size of the page, reducing it's readability.
 * Unfortunately, the NPR pages do not always list the original recording date, thus the large number of undated and ambiguously dated entries.

Rvgm (talk) 07:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)