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The Jazz Discography
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- Alternate title
- TJD Online
- Description
- The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord is the most comprehensive, general jazz discography
extant. It includes information on over 183,000 jazz recording sessions from 1896 to the
present. Information for each session includes personnel, place and date of recording, song
titles, matrix numbers, and issue (catalog) numbers for a variety of formats, from 78 rpm discs to
CDs and downloads. The database can be searched by leader, side musicians, song titles,
recording dates, recording companies, as well as through "multi-searches" combining
musicians and song titles. Listings are updated on a daily basis.
- Help
- Help link provided from the toolbar of the database.
- User tools and features
- Multi-search includes: Search, Word Search and Date Search.
- Dates covered
- 1896 to present.
- Updating frequency
- Daily.
- Sources
- Data sources include existing general and individual jazz discographies, international jazz
periodicals, information received from recording companies and their catalogs, the archives of
Cadence Magazine. Other major sources of data are individual record collectors around the world who
contributed their time and knowledge to ans on-going project.
- Type of coverage
- Discography.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Lord Music Reference Inc.
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Lord Music Reference Inc.
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