Talk:The Jazz Professors

Contested relevance[edit]

The group has produced a top ten album of 21st century jazz music that stands equally to other jazz albums that appear in wikipedia from this and the prior century. The group features players including Jeff Rupert and Marty Morell who are relevant to the history of modern jazz. The group includes artists like Richard Drexler who are emerging as the standard-bearers of the modern music - ""I have heard the future of Jazz, and it is Richard Drexler", Eric Addeo,Joel Chriss, et al., Jazz Times Magazine, 2004.

Too often the cataloging of jazz history in Wikipedia gives short-shrift to modern players who stand, in terms of chops, side by side many of the "legends" of the 20th century more venerated by the editorial team here. Theclevertwit (talk) 17:52, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... A) This band is a ground-breaking new combo that is creating new pathways for traditional Jazz combo recordings; B) They are succeeding at their strategy - The band has a top-ten album on the JazzWeek charts currently, and has had one for successive weeks. You list pop acts with far less going for them; C) The band is composed of performers whose work appears throughout Wikipedia on other pages but not aggregated together. They are top musicians in the jazz world. Marty Morell, Jeff Rupert and the others have been on hundreds of recordings and have collectively played thousands of gigs. How is that different from other "significant" artists? This is not a garage band. These guys have played with some of the top Jazz recording artists in the world. --Theclevertwit (talk) 23:24, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy removed[edit]

Upon further review of the article, I have removed the speedy. smileguy91^talk 00:13, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]