Digital Age Enters Discography

[miles65]

Tom Lord started to incorporate downloads from Wolfgangs Vault in his online disco. some 40 concerts so far.

Artist include Benny Goodman, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich etc.

Edited October 20, 2011 by Stompy Jones

[relyles]

many of the discographies on jazzdiscography.com for a while have included unreleased live performances that have circulated via various digital means and even YouTube listings.

[Chuck Nessa]

An extension of listing "broadcasts".

edit for typo

Edited October 20, 2011 by Chuck Nessa

[John L]

Where are these concerts located? I do not see them when I go into the online discography.

[miles65]

Where are these concerts located? I do not see them when I go into the online discography.

Go to either: New/reissues and set the numbre of days to 4 and scroll down.

Or do a word search on Wolfgang's Vault.

[John L]

Where are these concerts located? I do not see them when I go into the online discography.

Go to either: New/reissues and set the numbre of days to 4 and scroll down.

Or do a word search on Wolfgang's Vault.

OK, I understand now. I thought you meant that you could actually stream or download the music there.

[miles65]

Where are these concerts located? I do not see them when I go into the online discography.

Go to either: New/reissues and set the numbre of days to 4 and scroll down.

Or do a word search on Wolfgang's Vault.

OK, I understand now. I thought you meant that you could actually stream or download the music there.

To hear the music (for free) go to http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/

For downloading you have to pay.

[Swinging Swede]

I thought CDs were digital...

[miles65]

I thought CDs were digital...

Off course, but CD's are also tangible and downloads or streams are not. Yes, you can burn a download to a CD. If you have a record or a CD you have something you can hold in your hands. What happens to the entry in the disco if the website that offers the stream disapears? For me including digitital streams/downloads in a discography is a new step of wich I don't know what it means for the feature of collecting.

[Big Beat Steve]

I thought CDs were digital...

Off course, but CD's are also tangible and downloads or streams are not. Yes, you can burn a download to a CD. If you have a record or a CD you have something you can hold in your hands. What happens to the entry in the disco if the website that offers the stream disapears? For me including digitital streams/downloads in a discography is a new step of wich I don't know what it means for the feature of collecting.

Agreed, fromn that point of view that is something new and a break with the conventional way of indicating the source of a recording. On the other hand and as pointed out above, one parallel with already existing conventional discographies is that those that really are in-depth often include session entries where the "release" column specifies "private tape" or "unreleased". Now one future variation on that theme would be "available via download from ...." I'd really assimilate these download entries with "private tape" entries, i.e. you know the music is there but you have to use a different route than search out a physical record (released somewhere sometime in the past) in order to gain access to that recording. Not really THAT new in principle ...