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I am curious to understand what "system", if any, people are using to catalog their music collection. Unlike many of you, certainly, I am a relative newcomer to jazz. I fell in love with Ellington roughly 15 years ago and have since progressively expanded my horizon. I now have roughly 1500 albums/box sets, mostly CDs but also files purchased online (which unfortunately often lack credit/liner notes). My collection is rapidly growing as i discover more music. I rip all my CDs, so my music collection is all stored on my computer (with backups of course). I started using Discogs "collections" to list all my albums but soon found out that: - some albums were missing from Discogs and adding them was very tedious - the credits entered on Discogs are often lacking, and the fact that the credits cannot be organized by "session" makes them unreadable (extreme case being large Mosaic box sets). - use of notes/comments is very limited I mostly download album covers from the web. I "document" credits, and store notes and interesting reviews in text files which i keep in each album's folder on my computer, and have a system in place to search through them. I rarely go through the physical copies of my CDs (aside for Mosaic booklets). I sometimes scan the liner notes and store them as PDFs as well, or download them from the web when i can find them. This all takes time, but having credits readily available is a must. Having comments is also useful, for refence, and to identify noteworthy albums or tracks, as i simply cannot memorize all this information. I have not yet decided how/where to store and organize information i collect on artists (bios, pictures, articles...). So i was curious to understand what others are doing... Not sure this is the right sub-forum to address this, but no other category seemed to fit.

Favorably reviewed on this website: http://noaudiophile.com/IK_Multimedia_iLoudMM/ The author provides a lot of technical data (measurements) that may not be your cup of tea. Based on my experience on some other models he reviews, I trust his ears, and he does not mince his words, which is not common with audio reviewers, making for a fun read on occasion.

Thanks, it is readily available: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/6614764?ev=r

I forgot to mention I have "Musings", "Early Jazz" and "The Swing Era". Will check the liner notes of "The Ledgendary Buster Smith", thanks.

Thanks for the tips. Will contact his son to find out if there are some "archives" available and report back if I get an answer.

Opening this topic to identify articles, lectures or liner notes by Gunther Schuller. Here are some I have found on the web: - article on Thelonious Monk in the Jazz Review here https://jazzstudiesonline.org/resource/jazz-review-vol1-no1-nov-1958 - "Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation" here https://jazzstudiesonline.org/resource/sonny-rollins-and-challenge-thematic-improvisation - 3 part Tanner Lecture (Jazz a Historical Perspective / Duke Ellington / Charles Mingus) here https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/schuller97.pdf - article on Sarah Vaughan here https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarah-vaughan-divine-one-by-gunther.html Are there other material available online, or that can be shared ? Thanks

I would harldy call this a rehearsal - seems to be a staged photo opp - but to answer your question, I would say the musicians are off beat, not the Duke