The Jazz Discography
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| Editor-in-chief | Tom Lord |
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| Categories | Jazz music |
| Publisher | Lord Music Reference Inc. |
| Founder | Tom Lord |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Chilliwack, British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1700-439X |
| OCLC | 48027258 |
The Jazz Discography is a print, CD-ROM, and online discography and sessionography of all categories of recorded jazz — and directly relevant precursors of recorded jazz from 1896. The publisher, Lord Music Reference Inc., a British Columbia company, is headed by Tom Lord and is based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The initial 26 of 35 print volumes, which comprise the discography, were issued from 1992 to 2001 in alphabetic order.[1][2][3][4] In 2002, The Jazz Discography became the first comprehensive jazz discography on CD-ROM.[5][6][7]
Scope
The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including traditional, swing, bebop, modern, avant-garde, fusion, third stream, and others. As of January 2008, the database contained 34,861 leaders, 181,392 recording sessions, 1,030,109 musician entries, and 1,077,503 tune entries.[1]
Early listings
There is an ongoing debate over when and where the word "jazz" became a common, commercial reference for the jazz genre, a genre that predates the word. Bert Kelly (1882–1968), a banjoist and jazz club owner from Chicago, is known for having used the word "jass," on his Chicago venue marquee in 1914.[8] To resolve such vagaries, TJD Online allows users to search by year, beginning 1896. The two listings of 1896 are the compositions of Scott Joplin, preserved on piano rolls — not performed by Joplin — but subsequently recorded many times.
There is a prevailing consensus that the first commercially released jazz recording was the "Livery Stable Blues" (third take), recorded on February 26, 1917, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band of New Orleans.[9]
Sources
Numerous data sources comprise the database. They include existing general and individual jazz discographies and international jazz periodicals. With initial mixed sentiment over some sources, reviewers observed that Lord borrowed heavily from, but expanded upon, the major comprehensive jazz discography work of Walter Bruyninckx, whose research was, and still is (as of 2013), ongoing.[7] Sentiment grew mostly positive after the 26th printed volume was published. Additional input has, and still is being received from recording companies and their catalogs and the issues of Cadence magazine covering many recordings not listed in other discographies. Individuals — particularly record collectors, musicologists, and jazz historians — have, and continue to provide data.[1]
Discography format and categories
The project is organized alphabetically by bandleader, and within each individual entry, chronologically by recording session. For each session, it identifies track and album titles, personnel and instrumentation, location and date, and recording label and numbers. Indexes are organized alphabetically by musician and by tune title.[4] The discography includes recording dates but excludes release dates.
Limited data for cassette releases
Some commercially available cassette releases have been included in The Jazz Discography, but the publisher makes no claim to completeness.[1]
Publication sets
The Jazz Discography (print)
| Volume 1: A – Bankhead | (1992) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 2: Billy Banks – Christer Boustedt | (1992) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 3: Boutte – Cathcart | (1992) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 4: Catherine – Dagradi | (1992) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 5: Dahlander – Dutch Dixie Devils | (1993) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 6: Dutch Swing College Band – Fischbacher | (1993) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 7: Clare Fischer – János Gonda | (1994) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 8: Nat Gonella – Everette Harp | (1994) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 9: Billy Harper to Claude Hopkins | (1994) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 10: Duncan Hopkins – Doug Jernigan | (1994) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 11: Jeff Jerolamon – Billy Kirsch | (1995) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 12: Kiruna Swingsextett – Mark Lewis | (1995) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 13: Meade Lux Lewis – Steve Masakowski | (1995) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 14: Miya Masaoka – Sid Millward | (1996) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 15: Bob Milne – Martha Nelson | (1996) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 16: Oliver Nelson – Paradise City Jazz Band | (1997) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 17: Paradise Club Band – Roy Powell | (1997) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 18: Seldon Powell – Rimaak | (1997) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 19: Sammy Rimington – Janne Schaffer | (1997) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 20: Wolfgang Schalk – Holly Slater | (1998) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 21: John Slaughter – Straight Line Jazz Ensemble | (1999) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 22: Straight Talk – Ole Thomsen | (1999) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 23: Dawn Thomson – Roy Vaughan | (2000) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 24: Sarah Vaughan – Barry Wedgle | (2000) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 25: Wee Big Band – Titi Winterstein | (2000) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 26: Jens Winther – Zzebra | (2001) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 27; Musician Index, Part 1: A – Erich Kunzel | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 28; Musician Index, Part 2: Fritz Kunzel – Doc Zywan | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 29; Tune Index, Part 1: 0 (zero) – "The Happy Ones" | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 30; Tune Index, Part 2: "The Happy Organ" – "Pentatitus" | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 31; Tune Index, Part 3: "Pentatonia" – "ZZ's Blues" | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 32; Addendum Vol. 1: A – Lucien Barbarin | (2003) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 33; Addendum Vol. 2: | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Volume 34; Addendum Vol. 3: Jean-Paul Bourelly – Bob Casanova | (2002) Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link |
| The Jazz Discography (CD-ROM) | |
| Version 3.3 (same data as Vols. 1–26) | (2002) Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Version 4.4 | (2005) |
| Version 5.0: 1992–2004 | (2004) Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Version 6.0: 1992–2005 | (2005) Template:Catalog lookup link |
| Version 7.0: 1992–2006 | (2007) |
| Version 8.0: 1992–2007 | (2008) |
| Version 9.0: 1992–2008 | (2009) |
| Version 10.0: 1992–2009 | (2010) |
| Version 11.0: 1992–2010 | (2011) |
| Version 12.0: 1992–2011 | (2012) |
| Version 13.0: 1992–2012 | (2013) |
| Version 14.0: 1992–2013 | (2014) |
| Version 15.0: 1992–2014 | (2015) |
| Version 16.0: 1992–2015 | (2016) |
| Version 17.0: 1992–2016 | (2017) |
| Version 18.0: 1992–2017 | (2018) |
| Version 19.0: 1992–2018 | (2019) |
| Version 20.0: 1992–2019 | (2020)
Version 21.0: 1992-2020 (2021) |
| The Jazz Discography (online) | |
| TJD Online | (launched 2005) Template:Catalog lookup link |
About Tom Lord
Before embarking on The Jazz Discography, Tom Lord had been a mechanical engineer and, later, an executive at a shipping container company. Lord, together with Bob Rusch, founded Cadence Jazz Records in 1980, an offshoot of Cadence magazine. Lord financed the record label launch and was a silent partner. In the 1990s, Lord also indexed back issues of Cadence.
References
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- ^ a b c d Tom Lord, The Jazz Discography Online, Lord Music, (accessed 10 December 2013; subscription required; accessible at many libraries); Template:Catalog lookup link (subscription fee required; accessible at many libraries)
- ^ Letters: Discography An Enormous Task, by Tom Lord, Billboard, February 21, 1998, pg. 5
- ^ Coda, Issues 247–252, pg. 32
- ^ a b Review: Comprehensive Discographies of Jazz, Blues, and Gospel, by Barry Kernfeld and Howard Rye, Notes, March 1995, pps. 865–891
Response: Communications, by Tom Lord, Notes, December 1995, pps. 662–666 - ^ Review: The Jazz Discography, Version 4.4 [CD-ROM] by Tom Lord; 85 Years of Recorded Jazz (1917-2002, A-Z Complete) [CD-ROM] by Walter Bruyninckx; Domi Truffandier, by Eric S. Charry, Notes, March 2005, pps. 833–837
- ^ Lord of the Files: His Jazz Discography Rocks, by John McDonough, Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2007
- ^ a b More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography, by Bruce D. Epperson, University of Chicago Press (2013) Template:Catalog lookup link
- ^ Bert Kelly’s Stables, posted May 30, 2012, Special Collections News, The University of Chicago Library, Retrieved 13 August 2013
- ^ Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Records, Matrix No: B-19332, Label/Number: Victor 18255, University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, Special Collections
