Talk:Charlie Parker discography

message: The list of Parker's compositions on this page runs to about 60. The newly published "Charlie Parker, Composer" by Prof. Henry Martin of Rutgers lists 84, with details on each. 
I aim to improve the list but suggest that that go on a separate page and that the redirection to the discography page be removed. The composition page would have items written by Parker, but not recorded by him and so would not be suitable for his discography. Does anyone have strong views? 
Watty62 (talk) 10:27, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Bird's compositions 

message: There is no good reason to list such a limited discography. Wikipedia is supposed to be informative.  Whoever is interested, please expand on this discography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willy Skillets (talk • contribs) 19:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: There is good useful info on Parker's earliest LP releases here, at the BirkaJazz site .... they are a record store, thus probably not suitable for citations, but do have huge informative pages on early jazz lp discographies, including one just for Parker, including photos, catalaog #s, what was a reissue of what, etc .... a good place to get started, which could then lead to more officially citable info from Discogs, and the like
my feeling on this Wikipedia page: don't try to force latter day compilations into some sort of chronology by recording date, that's much too random, theres just too many obscure comps (especially given the Euro Public Domain releases), and they won't all neatly match a specific year ... and their current presence obscures the actual history of how Parker's recordings were released at the time
I might suggest modelling this page on something like the Billie Holiday discography page ... separated into tables for studio albums, live albums, compilations, box sets, and singles, each chronological by release date .... studio albums would just be the albums of all-new material, mostly for Verve, beginning with the 10inch LPs if appropriate ... live albums sequenced by release date, with a separate field for recording date (and venue)... compilations should also be chronological by release date, so stick to the most important ones, again beginning with the Dial and Savoy 10" releases from 1949 ... box sets again by release date ... singles should be manageable, his recording career didn't begin that long before the LP era, but all the important Savoy & Dial releases actually were issued as singles and should each be listed in order of release (as best we can figure, given there are two labels), with fields for cat#, writer credits, and with a- and b-sides noted ... the singles table would by definition begin (for Parker) several years before the studio albums table, and the earliest comps I believe were also released by Savoy & Dial prior to his first allnew studio albums for Verve
toughest thing to squeeze into this format will be all the archival stuff, including many albums mixing old mastertakes with newly released alternates .... whether they go into the studio albums or compilations table, a note should be included stating "archival", or "alternate takes", as appropriate 
J Edward Malone (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: ideas for Parker discography page

message: ONE DISCOGRAPHY, not separated by label as it is done here.  That's idiotic. 146.168.57.244 (talk) 21:06, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Come On, Man