Collaborations

How do we add collaborations? What's the official policy on this?

I suppose that if the other collaborators don't have and won't have pages on JMA, then we add the the album under the main artist, but what if more of the collaborators are on JMA already? How long lasting has a collaboration to be in order for us to make an artist page for it?

Even if other collaborators are on JMA with artist pages?

snobb wrote: Not sure if I understand your question clear... You mean -  where we need to put the album, released as "Chick Corea- Herbie Hancock", for example? Under Chick Corea is the answer (even if Hancock has separate entry).

Yeap, that's what I was asking in this particular case.

snobb wrote: I am not sure what you mean under "main artist" - how do you decide, who is main in collaboration?

I'm not sure on how to determine "the main artist" either, which is why this thing is so tricky. Being the first on the list of names isn't very convincing to me.

Just look at this as more technical rule - we would like to avoid double entries. In jazz, there are plenty of albums, released not by bands, but just by collaborators (under their names), so "first name rule" just put in order any album's addition as well as help easily to decide where you must to search for any album. 

Snobb, you do know "An Evening With Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea" is listed under both artists?

 Now I can add CCEB albums in peace

snobb wrote: BTW, there are two albums released from the same Hancock/Corea sessions, one under Corea's name and another under Hancock's, with slightly different track list

Should be considered different, one for Corea, the other for Hancock.


Edited by Ricochet - 08 Apr 2011 at 12:47pm