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Do we want some extra categories?

Do we want a category on Jazz producers? I'm thinking of Orrin Keepnews and others. Also, a category for jazz critics like Nat Hentoff? Any comments before I create some?

KConWiki 01:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I can't seem to find a 'jazz venues' category - maybe my eyes aren't working - Wally's Cafe (Wally's Cafe is the oldest continually operating Jazz club in the US) is sitting as a dead end page. Anyone want to rescue this article? - I know nothing about the venue. FoolesTroupe (talk) 03:49, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

ok - I found 'jazz clubs' FoolesTroupe (talk) 03:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Your portal is mind blowing. I hope you add extra categories til the end of time! Awesome work. Jason West Jones (talk) 05:17, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

There does not seem to be any category or articles in the portal about jazz music theory?! For example, contents of Barry Harris' method or other material as in the books of Mark Levine, etc. Digisus (talk) 18:46, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

New articles

How about having a "new articles" section where anyone can add their newest creations?

Something like this:

• 12 Jun: Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Fest
• 11 Jun: Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
• 10 Jun: Pico and Sepulveda
• 02 Jun: Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
• 02 Jun: All or Nothing at All
• 29 May: 'Round Midnight (album)
• 28 May: 'Round Midnight (1969 album)

Another question: Why not make some more links from within articles or categories to this portal? For example bebop (french) or bebop (dutch) both link to their jazz portals.

Freestyle 11:29, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I see no problem with adding a new articles section, my only concern would be keeping the list up to date, I can't imagine many people in the Jazz WikiProject updating the list in the portal manually.

I'll try to make some more links in articles when I get the time (I shall be trying to rewrite smooth jazz, once I can find some reliable sources!), but you can also be bold and add the links in yourself. --tgheretford (talk) 12:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I could also add a link to the portal in Template:Jazzfooter. And maybe then add that template to some more articles. As for the new articles list, I see your point. I made this list (above) though without too much trouble, so I could update it once in a while (although the list I made isn't complete ofcourse). Once more people find this portal to start with, they might start adding the new articles they made themselves. Freestyle 13:38, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Adorno Quote

Note that the Adorno quote listed on the front page of this article was written by Adorno in an article he attributed to the pseudonym "Hektor Rottweiler." --- There is a debate concerning to what extent Adorno understood jazz and what jazz he actually heard - i.e., European popularizations of American popularizations of American jazz. His attacks on jazz may not be directed at the "authentic" jazz played by serious musicians. At any rate, it may be worthwhile adding the pseudonym to the quote's attribution to not the ambiguous context. Editor437 01:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Would You Be so Kind

and proofread our german projekt to translate a germany specifc jazz article Portal:Jazz/Jazz in Germany and correct the word order and ask me questions. --Roomsixhu (talk) 08:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tony Vitti

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lacks secondary sources of sufficient quality ; no discography

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Revamped a little

very moribund portal. doesnt get a lot of traffic, but that may be due to it not being linked a lot, or that nothing has happened here for 7 years. added random function, created 9 articles/images to rotate through, trimeed out sections that are hopelessly out of date.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:55, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

B class, Top importance articles

• 'Round About Midnight (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-06 (t) B 2009-09-06 (t) 1234
• Art Tatum (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2010-09-25 (t) 1388
• Bebop (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2009-09-04 (t) 1530
• Benny Goodman (t · h · l) Top 2009-11-07 (t) B 2009-11-07 (t) 1553
• Bessie Smith (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2009-09-04 (t) 1442
• Bill Evans (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2012-08-06 (t) 1452
• Billie Holiday (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2014-06-24 (t) 1589
• Birth of the Cool (t · h · l) Top 2008-11-21 (t) B 2012-05-27 (t) 1275
• Blues (t · h · l) Top 2011-01-03 (t) B 2011-01-03 (t) 1732
• Bugge Wesseltoft (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-08 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1153
• Charlie Parker (t · h · l) Top 2010-09-23 (t) B 2009-06-13 (t) 1564
• Count Basie (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2009-06-13 (t) 1494
• Dizzy Gillespie (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2009-06-14 (t) 1563
• Django Reinhardt (t · h · l) Top 2010-01-24 (t) B 2009-06-13 (t) 1501
• Drum kit (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-04 (t) B 2013-05-06 (t) 1727
• Duke Ellington (t · h · l) Top 2009-06-15 (t) B 2012-12-10 (t) 1624
• Eivind Aarset (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-07 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1032
• Gerry Mulligan (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-03 (t) B 2010-04-12 (t) 1385
• Hard bop (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2011-09-18 (t) 1424
• In a Silent Way (t · h · l) Top 2010-04-03 (t) B 2010-04-03 (t) 1265
• Jan Garbarek (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-08 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1367

• Jelly Roll Morton (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2009-09-04 (t) 1398
• John Coltrane (t · h · l) Top 2009-08-15 (t) B 2009-08-15 (t) 1579
• Karin Krog (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-07 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1044
• Lester Young (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2010-04-12 (t) 1390
• Louis Armstrong (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2009-09-04 (t) 0.5 1670
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-09 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1253
• Ola Kvernberg (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-08 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 700
• Oscar Peterson (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2010-04-12 (t) 1493
• Philip Catherine (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-08 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1127
• Ragtime (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2009-09-04 (t) 1511
• Renaud Garcia-Fons (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-09 (t) B 2013-10-09 (t) 996
• Sarah Vaughan (t · h · l) Top 2010-02-25 (t) B 2010-02-25 (t) 1449
• Saxophone (t · h · l) Top 2008-11-21 (t) B 2011-01-25 (t) 1687
• Smooth jazz (t · h · l) Top 2009-09-04 (t) B 2010-03-07 (t) 1447
• Speak No Evil (t · h · l) Top 2010-10-05 (t) B 2010-04-11 (t) 925
• Terje Rypdal (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-07 (t) B 2013-10-20 (t) 1217
• Thelonious Monk (t · h · l) Top 2013-03-24 (t) B 2010-01-15 (t) 1519
• Thorgeir Stubø (t · h · l) Top 2013-10-07 (t) B 2013-10-07 (t) 700
• Trombone (t · h · l)
• these can all be aded to select biography or select article any time.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:09, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
  • I have added all but most of the finnish musicians, who were given top importance incorrectly.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:26, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK

there will be a DYK section soon. and more info on each of the pictures, including image credits. patience is a virtue, man.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:27, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Sonique Linus Burdick

The subject of this article Sonique Linus Burdick seems to be totally imaginary. picture from http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/fr/explore/online/alvin_mccurdy/big/big_54_unidentified_woman02.aspx Single reference false, .... Lioneldecoster (talk) 11:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

@Lioneldecoster: I agree, and have marked the article for deletion. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Feedback Wanted!

Hello Jazz portal people. I'm rewriting the page for Wally's Cafe, a historical Boston Jazz club. I have sought feedback, to no success, and was hoping one of you could read the page and provide constructive feedback. Thanks! DovC123 (talk) 22:42, 12 April 2023 (UTC)