Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz

 WikiProject Jazz 

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 How to log in. (There is also an FAQ at Contributing FAQ.) If you wish to participate in WikiProject Jazz, then add your name to our participants section.

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 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 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
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:

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 –, or. When one of the boxes is added, your name will automatically be included in Category:WikiProject Jazz participants.

Templates

 * Project banner: 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.
 * Infobox musical artist - To be used in all articles about jazz artists and groups.
 * Infobox album - To be used in all articles about jazz albums.

Stubs

 * jazz-album-stub - For short articles relating to jazz albums.
 * jazz-musician-stub - For short biographical articles on jazz musicians.
 * 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
 * Cleanup listing
 * Citation template for Google Books
 * Jazz awards
 * Jazz magazines
 * Jazz record labels
 * Most popular jazz pages by number of hits

Wikipedia documentation
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Citing sources
 * Conflict of interest
 * Deletion policy
 * External links
 * Identifying reliable sources
 * Image use policy
 * Naming conventions
 * List of infoboxes
 * Maintenance templates
 * Manual of Style (music)
 * Neutral point of view
 * Notability (music)
 * Ownership of content
 * Reference desk
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Words to watch for (bias, puffery)

Awards and sales
 * Billboard jazz chart
 * Grammy Awards
 * Independent Music Awards
 * Official Charts UK
 * Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Biographies and interviews
 * Allmusic
 * Interviews at Innerviews
 * NEA Jazz Masters
 * NPR Jazz Profiles
 * Jazz Biographies.com
 * Library of Congress online exhibition Singers
 * The Red Hot Jazz Archive before 1930
 * Smithsonian Jazz
 * Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program
 * William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz Oral History Database, Tulane University

Discographies
 * Allmusic
 * Discography of American Historical Recordings
 * Jazz Discography
 * Jazz Discography Project
 * J-Disc discography
 * The Red Hot Jazz Archive Jazz before 1930
 * Brian Rust's Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942

Magazines and webzines
 * All About Jazz
 * Bass Musician
 * Bass Player
 * Billboard
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=zxIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=billboard&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=2_2&atm_aiy=1940#all_issues_anchor back issues at Google Books
 * Brave Musician
 * DownBeat
 * Drummerworld
 * JAZZed
 * Jazz Inside (Eric Nemeyer)
 * Jazziz
 * Jazz Journal (UK)
 * Jazz Journalists Association
 * Jazz Times
 * Jazz Week
 * Jazzwise
 * Just Jazz Guitar
 * JET magazine at Google Books. See, for example, Art Simmons' "Paris Sketchpad" column.
 * Modern Drummer
 * No Treble
 * Offbeat (New Orleans)
 * Pitchfork
 * Pop Matters
 * Jazz section at Rock's Back Pages
 * Rolling Stone
 * Paiste
 * Premier Guitar
 * Smooth Jazz
 * Stereophile
 * Vintage Guitar

Other sites
 * Allegro newsletter from AFM local 802 (New York City). Jazz-related articles, obituaries
 * Ted Gioia
 * Jazz Education Network
 * Jazz at Lincoln Center
 * Jazz News: Jazz jubilees 100 years (as of 2008)
 * Jazz Online – their blog postings may not be appropriate as sources, but it also includes interviews, which are potentially useful.
 * Jazz Research
 * Jazz Rhythm
 * Tom Morgan on early jazz
 * Marc Myers at Jazzwax
 * http://www.austinchronicle.com/authors/harvey-pekar/ (mostly jazz-related; mostly reviews) for The Austin Chronicle
 * Terry Teachout
 * 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.)
 * Tom Hull - on the Web – database of blogs and columns by jazz-focused critic, Tom Hull

Academic
 * Bop, Rethought: Jazz, culture, and 'Art Music' in 1950s America (I think this is OK as per WP:SCHOLARSHIP)
 * http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/MLCC/browse/?fq=dc_type%3Asound at the University of North Texas. Archived broadcasts include music and interviews.
 * European Free Improvisation Pages at the University of Sheffield, UK
 * http://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/ at University of the District of Columbia
 * Hamilton College Jazz Archive, interviews
 * 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
 * Jazz Corner
 * Bob Keller's Jazz Page