[78-L] Revised American Dance Band Discography

[Jeff Sultanof]

It pains me that based on the room it would take up in my small apartment,
and the cost given that I have a sixteen-month old, I can't even consider
thinking about buying this. I've missed out on some fantastic discographies
because they are printed rather than available via CD-ROM. Luckily I can use
them at a place like the Institute of Jazz Studies, but there is never
enough time to really go through them.

I am budgeting so that I can buy the Capitol Discogr., and at least it won't
take up a shelf.

Oh, well.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Lichtman" <jeff at swazoo.com>
> >>You have to appreciate that this discography was started about 30 years
> >>ago, using the technology of the time, perhaps making it unsuitable for
> >>electronic format.
> > Anything printed today is typeset electronically, so the data has to
> > be in a computer even if it started as longhand on index cards. It
> > shouldn't be hard to put it onto a CD-ROM.
> >
> And, IF it is going to be in digital form, it is MUCH better if it is
> either
> in
> database-file form...or can easily be converted thereunto! About 20 years
> ago, I painstakingly typed various information accumulations (like the
> data in the RR Perfect issue, and the Plaza matrix list) into dBASE III+,
> and discovered, having done so, that the data could be searched, re-sorted,
> usw., making it MUCH more useful!
>
> If  "Son Of ADBD" were in "XBase" form, it would be simple to, say, ask
> your computer for "tell me all the Sam Lanin recordings from <date> to
> <date>"...which the computer can do MUCH faster than we humans!
> And probably more accurately as well!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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