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WikiProject Jazz is a group of editors writing and maintaining Wikipedia's articles on all things jazz. The parent of this WikiProject is [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Music genres|WikiProject music genres]]. On our [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jazz|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 [[Wikipedia:How to log in]]. (There is also an FAQ at [[Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ]].) If you wish to participate in WikiProject Jazz, then add your name to our [[#Project members|participants section]].


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== Scope ==
This [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] aims to:
*Improve and standardize existing jazz-related articles.
*Create any needed jazz articles.
*Elevate as many jazz-related articles as possible to [[WP:GA|Good]] or [[WP:FA|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 [[Wikipedia:How to copy-edit|copyediting]]! Keep in mind Wikipedia's policies regarding [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|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 [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]] will do at first.
*Add appropriate media to articles. Make sure any media (particularly images) used are tagged and used properly. See [[Wikipedia: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 [[Portal:Jazz|jazz portal]], go to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/To do]].

{{WikiProject cleanup listing}}
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 [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jazz|jazz project's talk page]].

==Articles and assessments==
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Jazz articles by quality statistics}}{{WP1|Jazz}}</div>

All articles linked to WikiProject Jazz link to this page, see [[special:Whatlinkshere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}|What links here]]. This includes all talk pages with the [[Template:Jazz-music-project|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:

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Article alerts}}
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==Project members ==
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==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 – <nowiki>{{participant|Jazz}}</nowiki>, or <nowiki>{{User Wikiproject Jazz}}</nowiki>. When one of the boxes is added, your name will automatically be included in [[:Category:WikiProject Jazz participants]].

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==Tools==
===Templates===
*'''Project banner:''' {{tl|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]].
*{{tl|Infobox musical artist}} - To be used in all articles about jazz '''artists''' and '''groups'''.
*{{tl|Infobox album}} - To be used in all articles about jazz '''albums'''.

===Stubs===
*{{tl|jazz-album-stub}} - For short articles relating to jazz albums.
*{{tl|jazz-musician-stub}} - For short biographical articles on jazz musicians.
*{{tl|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 [[:Category:Jazz albums|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'''
* [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Jazz.html Cleanup listing]
* [http://reftag.appspot.com/ Citation template for Google Books]
* [[:Category:Jazz awards]]
* [[:Category:Jazz magazines]]
* [[:Category:Jazz record labels]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Jazz/Popular_pages|Most popular jazz pages by number of hits]]

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

'''Awards and sales'''
* [http://www.billboard.com/charts/jazz-albums ''Billboard'' jazz chart]
* [https://www.grammy.com Grammy Awards]
* [https://www.independentmusicawards.com Independent Music Awards]
* [http://www.officialcharts.com Official Charts UK]
* [https://www.riaa.com Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)]

'''Biographies and interviews'''
* [http://www.allmusic.com Allmusic]
* [http://www.innerviews.org/interviews.html Interviews at Innerviews]
* [https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz NEA Jazz Masters] 
* [http://www.npr.org/series/10208861/npr-s-jazz-profiles NPR Jazz Profiles]
* [http://www.jazzbiographies.com/ Jazz Biographies.com]
* [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jazz-singers/online-exhibition.html Library of Congress online exhibition] Singers
* [http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Red Hot Jazz Archive] before 1930
* [http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz Smithsonian Jazz] 
* [http://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/collections-and-archives/smithsonian-jazz-oral-history-program Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program]
* [http://musicrising.tulane.edu/listen/ William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz Oral History Database], Tulane University

'''Discographies'''
* [http://www.allmusic.com Allmusic]
* [http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/ Discography of American Historical Recordings]
* [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/ Jazz Discography]
* [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]
* [http://jdisc.columbia.edu/ J-Disc discography]
* [http://www.redhotjazz.com/ The Red Hot Jazz Archive] Jazz before 1930
* [https://78records.wordpress.com/category/brian-rust-jazz-records-discography/ Brian Rust's Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942]

'''Magazines and webzines'''
* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com ''All About Jazz'']
* [https://www.bassmusicianmagazine.com/ ''Bass Musician'']
* [https://www.bassplayer.com/ ''Bass Player'']
* [http://www.billboard.com ''Billboard'']
* {{URL|1=http://books.google.com/books?id=zxIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=billboard&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=2_2&atm_aiy=1940#all_issues_anchor|2=''Billboard'' magazine}} back issues at [[Google Books]]
* [http://bravemusician.com/ Brave Musician]
* [http://www.downbeat.com/ ''DownBeat'']
* [https://drummerworld.com/ ''Drummerworld'']
* [http://www.jazzedmagazine.com/ ''JAZZed'']
* [http://www.jazzinsidemagazine.com/ ''Jazz Inside''] (Eric Nemeyer)
* [http://www.jazziz.com/ ''Jazziz'']
* [http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/ ''Jazz Journal''] (UK)
* [http://news.jazzjournalists.org/ Jazz Journalists Association]
* [http://www.jazztimes.com/ ''Jazz Times'']
* [http://www.jazzweek.com/ ''Jazz Week'']
* [http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/ ''Jazzwise'']
* [http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/ ''Just Jazz Guitar'']
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=_zcDAAAAMBAJ ''JET'' magazine at Google Books]. See, for example, [[Art Simmons]]' "Paris Sketchpad" column.
* [http://www.moderndrummer.com ''Modern Drummer'']
* [http://www.notreble.com/ ''No Treble'']
* [http://www.offbeat.com/ ''Offbeat''] (New Orleans)
* [https://www.pitchfork.com/ ''Pitchfork'']
* [https://www.popmaters.com/ ''Pop Matters'']
* [https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Subject/jazz Jazz section at ''Rock's Back Pages'']
* [https://www.rollingstone.com/ ''Rolling Stone'']
* [https://www.pastemagazine.com/ ''Paiste'']
* [https://www.premierguitar.com/ ''Premier Guitar'']
* [http://www.smoothjazzmag.com/ ''Smooth Jazz'']
* [https://www.stereophile.com/ ''Stereophile'']
* [http://www.vintageguitar.com/ ''Vintage Guitar'']

'''Other sites'''
* {{URL|http://www.local802afm.org/news-allegro/allegro/|''Allegro''}} newsletter from [[American Federation of Musicians|AFM]] local 802 (New York City). Jazz-related articles, obituaries
* [http://www.tedgioia.com/ Ted Gioia]
* [http://www.jazzednet.org/ Jazz Education Network]
* [http://www.jazz.org/ Jazz at Lincoln Center]
* [http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/dates/ Jazz News: Jazz jubilees 100 years] (as of 2008)
* {{URL|http://jazzonline.com/|Jazz Online}} – their blog postings may not be appropriate as sources, but it also includes interviews, which are potentially useful.
* [http://www.jazzresearch.com/ Jazz Research]
* [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm]
* [http://www.jass.com/ Tom Morgan on early jazz]
* [http://www.jazzwax.com/ Marc Myers at Jazzwax]
* {{URL|1=http://www.austinchronicle.com/authors/harvey-pekar/|2=Harvey Pekar's writings}} (mostly jazz-related; mostly reviews) for ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
* [http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/ Terry Teachout]
* {{URL|http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/mulligan/gm-home.html|''Jeru: In the Words of Gerry Mulligan''}}, oral autobiography. <small>(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]].)</small>
* [http://www.tomhull.com ''Tom Hull - on the Web''] – database of blogs and columns by jazz-focused critic, [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]

'''Academic'''
* {{URL|http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/surg/article/view/1028/1520|Bop, Rethought: Jazz, culture, and 'Art Music' in 1950s America}} <small>(I think this is OK as per [[WP:SCHOLARSHIP]])</small>
* {{URL|1=http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/MLCC/browse/?fq=dc_type%3Asound|2=Willis Conover Collection}} at the [[University of North Texas]]. Archived broadcasts include music and interviews.
* [http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/ European Free Improvisation Pages] at the University of Sheffield, UK
* {{URL|1=http://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/|2=Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives}} at [[University of the District of Columbia]]
* {{URL|www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive/interviews|Hamilton College Jazz Archive}}, interviews
* {{URL|www.jazzstudiesonline.org|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'''
* [http://www.jazzcorner.com/ Jazz Corner]
* [http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/ Bob Keller's Jazz Page]

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