-j.
04-13-2003, 02:56 PM
While it's not exactly new, this may be of interest to the scholarly inclined (and, at the hefty price tag of US$ 277.-, to the financially secure...):
"The Jazz Discography" is a fully searchable database containing information on over 400,000 recordings up to the late 1990's. It got a glowing review in the LA Times:
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/jazz/cl-et-heckman4apr04,0,3767768.story?coll=cl%2Djazz
It can be ordered at www.lordisco.com.
Full disclosure: I haven't had the opportunity to check it out myself, and I am not affiliated in any way with Tom Lord, the researcher who compiled this CD-ROM. But it sure looks fascinating, and if my chronic GAS wouldn't be depleting me of all my bling-bling...
-j.
"The Jazz Discography" is a fully searchable database containing information on over 400,000 recordings up to the late 1990's. It got a glowing review in the LA Times:
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/jazz/cl-et-heckman4apr04,0,3767768.story?coll=cl%2Djazz
It can be ordered at www.lordisco.com.
Full disclosure: I haven't had the opportunity to check it out myself, and I am not affiliated in any way with Tom Lord, the researcher who compiled this CD-ROM. But it sure looks fascinating, and if my chronic GAS wouldn't be depleting me of all my bling-bling...
-j.