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Purchased Lame cover art on Qobuz to be replaced... Here are nice size front and back covers of the LP: https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/bill-english-bill-english-54384 By the way, Jan Evensmo has a nice "solography" of Seldon Powell here: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/seldon-powell/ Here is the Discogs entry for the album mentionned in the first post of the thread: https://www.discogs.com/Seldon-Powell-Sextet-Featuring-Jimmy-Cleveland-Seldon-Powell-Sextet-Featuring-Jimmy-Cleveland/master/665788

Good stuff ! I don't have a record player, and found this album on Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/bill-english-bill-english/0015700912751 Edited by "Vanguard Digital Vault". There is no CD issue referenced on Discogs. Wondering whether this is an LP "rip". Anyone familiar with those releases ?

All aspects ! Really basic stuff to start with... I think the books provided above should be a good start.

Great, thanks - French works. I looked up the author and has another book that may be a good starting point as well: https://www.amazon.fr/Bases-mots-sons-Jacques-Siron/dp/2907891235/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=jacques+siron&qid=1585312451&sr=8-2

I have no knowledge of music "theory", but would like to learn. Do you have any recommendations for books or online courses that are simple, and preferably in the context of jazz music ? Thanks.

I just tested it. It is a CSV format, that you can import into Excel or Google Sheets easily. It only contains the basic album information (title, artist, release ID, label, format).

There is a risk with any software that it no longer gets maintained. The best way to avoid this is to make sure the data you enter can be exported (to a spreadsheet, for example) and re-used elsewhere if required. Is that the case with iTunes, for example? Not sure... I know "Roon", to take another example, has very limited export options. Not sure how easy it is to export data from Discogs either. Could be that even if the software is still available you may want to switch to something else. Keep that in mind... Edit: with Discogs, you can export your collection to Excel - https://www.discogs.com/users/export

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Could be a good time to start if you are confined at home...

First thing I do is to look up my albums on Wikipedia. It would be great to add Mosaic box sets to Wikipedia, with credits by session. I will look into it and maybe take a shot at it with one set to see how much time it takes.

For a while i was purchasing a lot of files for download (bandcamp, qobuz, storyville, etc) and its a mixed blessing. I regret doing so now, as i don't have the liner notes. With some exceptions, I now generally purchase physical CDs.

Cool, will dig further. EDIT: on the Windows version I can enter credits, but not by "session".

Took it for a spin - barcode entry is great (for CDs), and picks up basic information (tracks, artist, album art). Don't see how to enter detailed credits, which is something I care about.

Thanks, will test it out.

I used Discogs for a while and did end up adding a few "releases". Identifying duplicates is useful - Discogs is good with that if all the data is entered. You can search a track title + artist + year and it will quickly find the corresponding albums. Their database is impressive in terms of releases. One thing I do is synchronize my folders to Google Drive. The search works on the content of the documents, including images and pdfs which automatically go through OCR, with variable results of course. Serves as a backup as well - probably more costly than a local backup though. Searching using Google Drive is not optimal, however, and it is sonetimes hard to make sense of the results.

Thanks. Can you give me an example (screen copy, if possible) to show the information you store on iTunes, just to see how it looks ? EDIT: looked on the web - you enter this information as metadata by track ? Also, found this interesting point of view on the challenges of using iTunes for Jazz: http://www.harlem.org/itunes/ What's your experience ?

I am curious to understand what "system", if any, people are using to catalog their music collection. Unlike many of you, certainly, I am a relative newcomer to jazz. I fell in love with Ellington roughly 15 years ago and have since progressively expanded my horizon. I now have roughly 1500 albums/box sets, mostly CDs but also files purchased online (which unfortunately often lack credit/liner notes). My collection is rapidly growing as i discover more music. I rip all my CDs, so my music collection is all stored on my computer (with backups of course). I started using Discogs "collections" to list all my albums but soon found out that: - some albums were missing from Discogs and adding them was very tedious - the credits entered on Discogs are often lacking, and the fact that the credits cannot be organized by "session" makes them unreadable (extreme case being large Mosaic box sets). - use of notes/comments is very limited I mostly download album covers from the web. I "document" credits, and store notes and interesting reviews in text files which i keep in each album's folder on my computer, and have a system in place to search through them. I rarely go through the physical copies of my CDs (aside for Mosaic booklets). I sometimes scan the liner notes and store them as PDFs as well, or download them from the web when i can find them. This all takes time, but having credits readily available is a must. Having comments is also useful, for refence, and to identify noteworthy albums or tracks, as i simply cannot memorize all this information. I have not yet decided how/where to store and organize information i collect on artists (bios, pictures, articles...). So i was curious to understand what others are doing... Not sure this is the right sub-forum to address this, but no other category seemed to fit.

Favorably reviewed on this website: http://noaudiophile.com/IK_Multimedia_iLoudMM/ The author provides a lot of technical data (measurements) that may not be your cup of tea. Based on my experience on some other models he reviews, I trust his ears, and he does not mince his words, which is not common with audio reviewers, making for a fun read on occasion.

Thanks, it is readily available: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/6614764?ev=r

I forgot to mention I have "Musings", "Early Jazz" and "The Swing Era". Will check the liner notes of "The Ledgendary Buster Smith", thanks.

Thanks for the tips. Will contact his son to find out if there are some "archives" available and report back if I get an answer.

Opening this topic to identify articles, lectures or liner notes by Gunther Schuller. Here are some I have found on the web: - article on Thelonious Monk in the Jazz Review here https://jazzstudiesonline.org/resource/jazz-review-vol1-no1-nov-1958 - "Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation" here https://jazzstudiesonline.org/resource/sonny-rollins-and-challenge-thematic-improvisation - 3 part Tanner Lecture (Jazz a Historical Perspective / Duke Ellington / Charles Mingus) here https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/schuller97.pdf - article on Sarah Vaughan here https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarah-vaughan-divine-one-by-gunther.html Are there other material available online, or that can be shared ? Thanks

I would harldy call this a rehearsal - seems to be a staged photo opp - but to answer your question, I would say the musicians are off beat, not the Duke