Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/To do

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Articles needing expansion or improvement

 * Pepper Adams
 * Lorez Alexandria*
 * Louis Armstrong - B-class. Should be a GA or FA because Louis deserves it. Plenty of material, but it needs to be tighter.
 * Iain Ballamy - telegram style, lots of headings
 * Patricia Barber
 * Beady Belle
 * Jaelem Bhate
 * Birdland (the famous NY club)
 * Brian Blade - Lots of good information, needs citations
 * Blue Note Records discography - self-explanatory
 * Charlie Parker Omnibook - Marked for issues regarding references and notability
 * Tiny Bradshaw
 * Bunny Brunel - Stub, needs more biography and expanded discography
 * Henry Busse - Trumpeter whose article needs references
 * Bill Coon
 * Crawford Grill - historic jazz club in Pittsburgh
 * Jack DeJohnette - discography is massive, sortable would be nice... I started this in my sandbox, who wants to help me?! Cymbop (talk)
 * Roy Eldridge – Getting close to Good Article standard
 * European free jazz
 * Dayramir Gonzalez deleted without prejudice re: Long-term abuse/Orangemoody/Articles
 * Stephane Grapelli - needs expanding: highlights of the Hot Club, influence, private life
 * Daniel Hersog
 * Steve Kaldestad
 * Brian Kellock - expansion
 * Kind of Blue individual track articles need improvement
 * Kimiko Kasai - expansion
 * Lee Konitz - needs development, including sections
 * Marian McPartland - Sort of stubby considering she's a fairly major figure.
 * Mexican jazz - needs expansion, citations
 * Enzo Nini - needs to be completely re-written
 * Jimmy Palao - needs clean-up, citations and verification
 * Walter Page general layout and esp. discography
 * Art Pepper
 * Austin Peralta
 * Praful
 * Gregory Charles Royal, have done some cleanup, not in the Jazz list, his brother Christopher Royal is a jazz trumpeter.
 * john Serry Sr., questionable excessive editing of source citations and deletions of the article's text by User:EddieHugh should be reviewed by a more experienced editor familiar with the Big band era of Jazz in the USA (circa 1930's - 1950's) and the use of the accordion in jazz music in that era - see the Talk page)
 * Ronnie Singer
 * Smooth jazz - numerous concerns with violations of WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:RS and in turn, WP:N.
 * Rex Stewart
 * Sarah Vaughan
 * Wally's Cafe on the dead end list - needs work
 * Cootie Williams
 * Johnny Windhurst

Requested articles
Please see Requested articles/music/Jazz Re: the above additions. I added their names to Requested articles/music/Performers, bands and songwriters yesterday, but they all got reverted and removed on the basis that the sources did not show significant coverage (I'm doubtful that the rest of the current requests fulfil this criteria though). Therefore, I'm reluctant to add them to the Requested Jazz articles page linked above, even though the content of that page seems to lack suggested sources. The "Requested articles" rules are heavily biased towards contemporary artists - it's another example of Wikipedia's "recentism". There might be numerous mainstream music websites out there which are regarded as "RS" and write about every latest trend. Sources for artists whose heyday was pre-internet are going to be much less readily available online. The guidelines for Music notability also leans against artists from the pre-LP era with parts of the criteria list, ie. releasing two or more albums on a major label, sales certifications and achieving hits on a national chart. I'd be happy to contribute to articles about those named above, I just don't know if I have time to start all the articles myself.--TrottieTrue (talk) 15:54, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums
 * See also User:Mel Etitis's Jazz-L 100 project
 * User:Chubbles/Missing American music - includes hundreds of jazz musicians, labels, and venues
 * WP:MET - includes many missing jazz artists
 * An Experiment in Modern Music: Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall (I'm unsure about the request; does this refer to a recording? Is a recording extant? Otherwise this is probably covered by Rhapsody in Blue and/or Aeolian Hall (New York). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:53, 7 December 2009 (UTC))
 * Rich Pellegrin -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Dolly Dawn there are only two obituary articles and her nephew's page about her life on a quick Google search.
 * Janet Evra
 * Let's Face the Music and Dance - jazz composition; was classed as a stub but would like a revised assessment after having added to the article --Etredanslalune (talk) 02:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Global Music Foundation - mounting jazz courses, workshops, concerts and festivals since 2004 Jontel (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Teddy Joyce - Canadian who led a British dance band in the 1930s and 1940s. He had a relationship with the film actress Chili Bouchier and recorded for His Master's Voice. He also set up an all-girl band, which was a rarity in Britain at the time, and appeared in several films. 1 2 3 4
 * Sydney Kyte - Leader of a British dance band in the 1930s who recorded for Regal Records, and was the resident bandleader at The Piccadilly Hotel in London. He was one of the featured dance band leaders on the widely distributed Lambert and Butler set of cigarette cards featuring British dance bands; nearly all the rest of the names have articles here. Kyte also appeared in films. 1 2 3 4 5
 * Brian Lawrance - Australian-born singer and violinist who led a British dance band in the 1930s. Another one of the few featured dance band leaders on the Lambert and Butler collection of cigarette cards who do not have an article here. Vocalist with the bands of Maurice Winnick, Jay Wilbur, Debroy Somers, Carroll Gibbons, Jack Hylton, Lew Stone and Louis Levy. He recorded for Rex Records. 1 2 3 4
 * Harry Leader - leader of a British dance band who made hundreds of records, including for His Master's Voice. He played saxophone and frequently appeared on the BBC's Music While You Work programme. 1 2 3
 * Billy Thorburn - Pianist and leader of the popular British dance band "The Organ, The Dance Band and Me". He recorded for Parlophone Records. 1 2 3 4 5
 * Peter Yorke - leader of a British dance band and light orchestral music composer, active from the 1930s to 1950s. He recorded for Zonophone, Decca and Columbia. He composed the theme music for the television series Emergency Ward 10. 1 2 3 https://www.robertfarnonsociety.org.uk/index.php/legends/peter-yorke 4

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.

Images requested

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of jazz musicians