User:PigeonOfTheNight/sandbox

Introduction
Hi there! This is my "Wiki-workshop", where I work on improving articles that are completely mangled and can't be fixed in a single edit (stating facts bluntly is my failing, I'm afraid). Please DO NOT edit this page unless you and I are working on the same article in a partnership. Thank you.

Early life
Georgi Kornazov was born on September 30, 1971 in Sevlievo, Bulgaria. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Sofia.

Kornazov started to play the piano at age 9, and the trombone at age 12. He studied at the "L. Pipkov" school of music and at the National Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia, Bulgaria. At the same time, Kornazov began to play with some of the most recognized Bulgarian jazz musicians: Milcho Leviev, Antoni Donchev, Stoyan Yankulov, Theodosii Spassov, Hristo Yotzov, Simeon Shterev, Vesselin Koichev, and the group "White, Green, Red", as well as with the great clarinetist Ivo Papazov. He created his first band, "The Dixie Jockers", in 1993.

In 1995, he joined the jazz department at the National Academy of Music and Dance (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse) in Paris, where he studied with François Jeanneau, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Hervé Sellin, and François Théberge.

He was invited as a guest soloist by the Lorient Big Band—a regional jazz orchestra from Brittany—and toured with them in Latvia (1996), Vietnam (1997), Cambodia (1998) and French Polynesia (1999). In 1998, he graduated with honors from the Paris Conservatory. The same year, he won the third prize (in the 'solo' category) and also the second prize (in the 'group' category) for his performance with Geoffroy Tamisier’s OLH Acoustic sextet at the French national jazz competition known as La Défense Jazz Festival.

Career
In 1999 he created his first quintet with Stéphane Guillaume (saxophone, clarinet), Emmanuel Codjia (guitar), Thomas Grimmonprez (drums) and Antonio Licusati (bass), which won third prize in the competition "La Défense". Recorded the CD "Une vie sans lune" with Geoffroy Tamisier's "OLH Acoustic".

In 2000, Kornazov took part in numerous projects: the French National Jazz Orchestra directed by Didier Levallet under the baton of John Lewis (Modern Jazz Quartet) and Paolo Damiani. There he crossed paths with Francois Jeanneau, Gianluigi Trovesi, Cristophe Marguet, Paul Rogers, Cristophe Monniot, Xavier Jirotto, Gianluca Petrella, Mederic Collignon, and Anouar Brahem. He participated in Paris Jazz Big Band, played with Toots Thielemans, Phil Collins and Henri Salvador under the direction of Quincy Jones, as well in Bertrand Renaudin's "l'Arbre Voyage" with Herve Sellin, Yves Rousseau and Jonas Knutsson.

Kornazov recorded his first album with original music "Staro Vreme" in 2001, "G meet K" with Kenny Wheeler and Geoffroy Tamisier's "OLH Acoustic", puis "A Suivre" with Paris Jazz Big Band. He formed a quartet "Tribute to JJ Johnson" with Denis Leloup (trombone), Pier Paolo Pozzi (drums) and Stephane Kerecki (bass).

From 2002 to 2009 he played with Henri Texier's "Strada Sextet". Concerts in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, UK, Russa, Norway, Libya

In 2004, Kornazov recorded "Essence de roses", his second album with original music with Stéphane Guillaume (saxophone, clarinet), Emmanuel Codjia (guitar), Thomas Grimmonprez (drums), Sebastien Boisseau (bass), Krassen Lutzkanov (kaval) and Geoffroy Tamisier (trumpet)

Kornazov was invited in 2005 as a permanent member of Vienna Art Orchestra, conducted by Matthias Rüegg and also in the sextet of Jean-Marie Machado "Andalucia". European tour with VAO.[1]

In 2006 Kornazov created two new groups: Gueorgui Kornazov «Horizons Quintet» with Emile Parisien (sax soprano), Manu Codjia (guitar), Mark Buronfosse (double bass), and Karl Jannuskan (drums) and the trio Kornazov / Codjia / Tamisier.

In 2007 he was invited by the Nord deutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Big band, Hamburg, where he worked with Bob Brookmeyer, Nils Landgren, Claus Stotter, Christof Lauer, Gene Calderazzo, Gary Husband, Dany Gotlieb, Eric Watson, Nils Wogram, and the composers and arrangers Steve Gray and Michael Gibs. Recording of «Viara» with the «Horizons» quintet[2][3] and "Le gris du vent" with the trio Kornazov/Codjia/ Tamisier. European tour with Al Jarreau and NDR Big band.

In 2008, Kornazov recorded "Marciac New York Express" with Herve Sellin septet and participated in several festivals: Vienne, Marciac, Ramatuelle, Nevers, Les Arenes of Montmartre.

In 2009 Kornazov joined Jean-Marie Machado’s "Danzas" band and made a recording with Manu Codjia quintet. Concerts in Paris – New Morning, Sunset.

2010: Creation of a new original project in Sofia «OTNOVO» with Antoni Donchev(piano), Rossen «Roko» Zahariev (trumpet, flugelhorn), Stojan Yankoulov (drums), Kornazov Donchev (bass) and concerts in Radio Sofia and Varna International Jazz Fest – Bulgaria. Carte blanche at the festival «Eclats d’émail»- Limoges, France and radio France, where he creates a special international version of «Again» with Alex Sipiagin (trumpet), Dimitar Bodourov (piano), Emile Parisien (sax soprano), Manu Codjia (guitar), Mark Buronfosse (double bass) and Antoine Banville (drums).

In 2011 Kornazov was invited as a soloist by the big band of Radio Sofia (dir. Anthony Donchev) and recorded “PART OF THE ART” with Mauro Negri European quartet with Mario Gonzi (drums) and Georg Breinchmid (bass). Concerts – Jazzahead Bremen,(D) Blagoevgrad Jazz Fest,(BG) BMC jazz festival – Budapest,(H) Mantova, (I).

In 2012 he joined Denis Charoles’s «The compagnie of musiques à Ouir»,[4] Geoffroy Tamisier's "L'Harmonie de poche" and the new septet of Olivier Le Gois, recording the CD ABSTRACT with. Recorded the CD "La féte à Bobby" with Jean-Marie Machado "Danzas" with Andre Minvielle. Concerts in France.

In 2013 Kornazov created three new personal projects: «THE MAJESTY OF KENNY WHEELER» (tribute to the great Canadian trumpeter and composer) with Claudia Solal-voice, Jean-Charles Richard-sax soprano, Manu Codjia-guitar, Guillaume de Chassy-piano,Christophe Marguet-drums and Matyas Szanday – basse, "Gueorgui Kornazov «BRASS SPIRIT» with Aymeric Avice – trumpet, Didier Ithurssary-accordéon, Bastien Stil – tuba and Eric Echampard- drums and the duo "SUZNANIE" with the pianiste Leonardo Montana. Coming out of SILA, the 4th album with original music which received “CHOCK”- the highest critic in Jazzmagazin. Recorded «DUKE & THELONIUS» with "The company music a Ouir" and «TRAPEZE» with Jan Schumacher.

In 2014 he recorded «SUZNANIE» – the fifth album with original music and coming out of “THE BUDAPEST CONCERT”, the 6th one. Caribbean tour with Tony Shasseur Big Band and SILA European tour: PORGY & BESS-Viena, MOODS – Zurich, LES MURS DU SON – La Chaux de fonds-Swiss, SUNSET – Paris and «BRASS SPIRIT»- Bar-le-Duc, France.

In 2015 Kornazov composed and arranged a new original programme called «CONSCIENCE» for Big Band and three soloists. Creation in Sofia, Bulgaria in September 2015. Plays with Nguyen Le project «THE DARC SIDE OF THE MOON» (Pink Floyd) and David Venitucci trio with Christophe Marguet (drums). Concerts in New Morning, Paris, Nice, “SILA” European tour: Valenciennes, Monastier, France, NDR-Hambourg, Germany, Chalons, Dijon, Auxerre, Bourgogne, Lillebone and Paris, France

Advice from Pdebee for fixing the Kornazov article
Before

"He is invited as a guest soloist by the Lorient Big band- the Bretagne regional jazz orchestra and he did a several tours with: 1996 in Latvia, 1997 in Vietnam, 1998 in Cambodja and 1999 in French Polynesia. In 1998 he graduated with honors (Golden Medal) the National Academy in Paris, won the third prize as a soloist and a second prize for group with Geoffroy Tamisier’s «OLH Acoustic» sextet at the French National Jazz Competition «La Défense»." After

He was invited as a guest soloist by the Lorient Big Band—a regional jazz orchestra from Brittany—and toured with them in Latvia (1996), Vietnam (1997), Cambodia (1998) and French Polynesia (1999). In 1998, he graduated with honors from the Paris Conservatory. The same year, he won the third prize (in the 'solo' category) and also the second prize (in the 'group' category) for his performance with Geoffroy Tamisier’s OLH Acoustic sextet at the French national jazz competition known as La Défense Jazz Festival.

Comments and suggestions

Dear Maybelle, Face-smile.svg

It is clear that the current English Wiki article was copied word-for-word from the English translation of Kornazov's biography at his official website, and that the original translation had not been written by a native English speaker.

Here is what I would do if I were to re-write the Wiki article into fluent English:

1. For now, ignore the current prose at the English Wiki; but don't worry: Face-wink.svg you'll come back to it later (in point 4. below);

2. Focus instead on Kornazov's original French biography (PDF)] at his official website; it will be much easier to understand his career from that text, thus saving you the headache of trying to second-guess the 'Frenglish' in the current Wiki article. Face-wink.svg

3. Decide what you would keep/ignore from it, in order to create a synthesis of all that information, written with an encyclopedic tone. The end result would obviously adhere to the same sequence of events, but possibly with less detail.

As benchmarks to help you determine 'subject matter' style and content, consult the articles on:

Bradley Joseph; a featured article about a very active, contemporary trombone player; Nelson Riddle; a B-class article, but it will help by showing you how its editors have covered a notable (deceased) trombone player who performed with internationally known stars.

4. Copy the existing source text from the English Wiki article into a sandbox that you've created (for example: "User:PigeonOfTheNight/My sandbox1") and then re-structure and trim the copied text according to what you've decided to keep/ignore. Treat the text (in your sandbox) as a block of clay that you're re-shaping; even if you modify the text extensively, this approach will simply save you having to re-type many elements of text (names, dates, etc), especially if you keep the flow of the subject's biographical timeline.

5. Change all occurrences of 'Georgi' > 'Kornazov', as per MOS:SURNAME. (Typically, people refer to themselves in the third person at their own website, using their first name. Wikipedia, however, requires the use of surname, or 'he'/'she', and almost never uses first names from the second occurrence of the name onwards; the only exception is when two people, in any given article, have the same surname and can therefore only be differentiated by their first names.)

6. Italicize album titles (as per MOS:ITALICS) and enclose track or song titles in double quotation marks (as per MOS:TITLEQUOTES.)

7. Add wikilinks as you go along; in a later pass, you'll be able to validate/eliminate them one by one to make sure you direct the reader to the correct pages.

8. Ping me any time you need help. Face-smile.svg

9. When you're ready to replace the article's original text with the equivalent, final draft text from your sandbox, just do a simple cut and paste in one single edit, remembering to complete the edit summary. On the other hand, if you'd prefer to edit the article section by section, then insert the following two templates in the English article (remember to change the time & date in the "time=" parameter!), to warn other editors that you're in for a long session and to invite them to wait until you're done; this will help prevent edit conflicts.

— this code will produce the following message box: This user page is actively undergoing a major edit for wikification by PigeonOfTheNight. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed. This message was added at 10:00, 8 January 2016 (UTC). This page was last revised at 00:55, 3 September 2016 (UTC) (5 months ago). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited in several hours. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it or replace it with between editing sessions.

and

— this will produce: page is in the middle of an expansion or major revamping 	This user page or section is in the process of an expansion or major restructuring. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. This template was placed by PigeonOfTheNight (talk · contribs). If this user page has not been edited in several days, please remove this template. If you are the editor who added this template and you are actively editing, please be sure to replace this template with during the active editing session. Click on the link for template parameters to use. This page was last edited by Pdebee (talk | contribs) 5 months ago. (Update)

10. Enjoy it! Face-smile.svg

With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 14:19, 9 January 2016 (UTC)