Talk:George E. Lewis

message: I've tried to include every album I know of on which Lewis plays throughout, or at least on a very substantial portion. I think it's better we leave out releases where Lewis only appears on a track or two; there's plenty of room on discogs.com for that stuff. SethTisue (talk) 20:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography: level of detail 

message: Should this article be moved to George E. Lewis (currently a redirect)?  The Penguin Guide to Jazz credits him as such.  However, I must admit unfamiliarity with the subject. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 20:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. That is how he appears in current scholarly circles, and he does work in fields outside of trombone. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. Lewis' work as an author and composer reaches a wider audience than his trombone performance. Identifying him primarily as a trombonist seems unnecessarily narrow. Willardthecat (talk) 04:53, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , ,  –– I was thinking the same thing & now see the conversation already happened a year ago, so will go ahead & make the move! Agreed that there's plenty of justification for moving it as per WP:MOVE, e.g., "The title does not follow Wikipedia's naming conventions, such as that it is not the common name of the subject or it is overprecise." Thanks for establishing consensus here. :) Knifegames (talk) 10:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: George Lewis was also involved with the ensemble "Duck and Cover" and recorded at the 'Festival des Politischen Liedes', 2/16/1986 in Berlin. The performance was released twice by the sound magazine 'ReR Quarterly' in 'vol.1 no.2' and in 'Selections from Vol.1.'. 
131.74.110.168 (talk) 16:33, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing sideman listing 

message: I added a chunk on Lewis's pre-Solo Trombone years, & for now have decided to split sections into "Early life" (birth through high school, 1952-1969) and "Education and joining the AACM" (1969-1974), which includes his time at Yale and the year off in the middle when he joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. 
This seemed to make the most sense, but I'm open to feedback––and I especially welcome any thoughts on subsections within "Career", or examples of well-organized articles on comparable artist-scholars! Knifegames (talk) 21:01, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: I know this can be a point of contention for Jazz Heads, but I'm reorganizing the discography by year of release –– but the goal is to eventually have everything in wikitables that can be sorted by year of release or recording. So far I've only done that formatting for the "As sole leader" subsection:
Released	Album Title                                                	Label      	Personnel                                                                                                                                                                  	Rec.
1976    	Solo Trombone Record                                       	Sackville  	Lewis (trombone)                                                                                                                                                           	1976
1978    	Monads-Triple Slow Mix-Cycle-Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet)       	Black Saint	Lewis (alto and tenor trombones, sousaphone, Moog synthesizer, sound-tube), Anthony Davis, Douglas Ewart, Leroy Jenkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Adbul Wadud, Muhal Richard Abrams	1977
1979    	Homage to Charles Parker                                   	Black Saint	Lewis (trombone, electronics), Ewart, Davis, Richard Teitelbaum                                                                                                            	1979
1981    	Chicago Slow Dance                                         	Lovely     	Lewis (electronics, trombones), Ewart, J.D. Parran, Teitelbaum                                                                                                             	1977
1993    	Voyager                                                    	Avant      	Lewis (trombone, computer, compositions), Roscoe Mitchell                                                                                                                  	1993
1993    	Changing With the Times                                    	New World  	Lewis (trombone), Daniel Koppelman, Ruth Neville, Jerome Rothenberg, Ewart, Jeannie Cheatham, Bernard Mixon, Peter Gonzales III, Mary Oliver, Quincy Troupe                	1993
2000    	Endless Shout                                              	Tzadik     	Lewis (computer, conductor, trombone), Sarah Cahill, Steven Schick, Quincy Troupe, and the NOW Orchestra                                                                   	1995-1997
2001    	The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra	Spool      	Lewis (trombone, conductor, compositions) / The NOW Orchestra                                                                                                              	1999
2006    	Sequel (For Lester Bowie)                                  	Intakt     	Lewis (trombone, laptop, Buchla Lightning, compositions), Siegfried Rössert, Guillermo E. Brown, Jeff Parker, Kaffe Matthews, Miya Masaoka, DJ Mutamassik                  	2004
2011    	George Lewis: Les Exercices Spirituels                     	Tzadik     	Lewis (compositions, live electronic processing, live electronics and spatialization performance) with large ensembles (Ensemble Erik Satie, Wet Ink, Vancouver Olympiad)  	2008-2010
2020    	Rainbow Family (1984)                                      	Carrier    	Lewis (computer programming, hardware hacking), Ewart, Joëlle Léandre, Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy                                                                            	1984
2021    	The Recombinant Trilogy                                    	New Focus  	Works for solo instrument and electronics: Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo, Seth Parker Woods, Dana Jessen & Eli Stine, software by Damon Holzborn                             	2016-2020
;References
There are a few reasons for this, but it's mostly about consistency & accuracy, as the release year is much easier to find and confirm; I'm hopeful that including both is a good happy medium, & I'll double-check more of that info as I add refs.
Open to feedback on included material, names for table columns, etc. (e.g. I'm hoping "Rec." is clear as "recorded," as the abbreviation keeps the column narrow & helps overall readability). I've also reformatted the "articles and chapters" section as a reflist (mostly for readability); no idea how to tackle the "compositions" section given massive overlap w/ discog, so leaving that for now, but hope to eventually move those to a stand-alone George E. Lewis discography (or "complete works") page. // Knifegames (talk) 08:40, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography by release year