User:AltoCristo

Article Review

I've been involved in jazz band since last year and it's a very unique style of music. The band i'm in right now is playing a piece called Oleo. I viewed the wiki page for this song, and it wasn't up to par with other wiki pages. Jazz is slowly becoming lost treasure due to modern culture's new take on music. To help form the map to jazz for other wikipedians, three aspects worth commenting on are: it's limited citations, an inadequate link, and lack of content.

Limited Citations

Throughout the page their are many facts around Oleo that don't have citations after. This leads makes me think if the info is credible or not. Also there many arrangements of Oleo, and the page briefly mentions it, but does not go into great detail. If I played a good arrangement of Oleo I would want to be noticed. Not to take away from the composer of Oleo (the page says its Sonny Rollins, but no citation) but other arrangements can bring new flavor to the song.

Inadequate Link

In the "References" section of the article, it has a link to unsatisfying source. It is just a listening sample of a version of Oleo. This doesn't make sense because it is called a reference on the page. It has no info, at least on the direct link, about info about Oleo. It's very misleading to click on this link and be left with no info about Oleo, it only has info about other musicians.

Lack of information

Other pages of famous song can be pretty extensive on Wikipedia, and this one is almost a joke. It at least was at the stage of being created, so at least it got that far. Other jazz pieces usually convey an emotion. On the page it says it's hard bop jazz, it could've talked about the history of why Oleo was created. Such as what led the composer to create the piece to show how Oleo came out to be what it was.

Summary

I would label this source unreliable and limited. The small amount of sources it has are not very convincingly credible. Also if sources came from more places the page could be more trustworthy. Although, the one citation it has leads to a website for all sorts of jazz history and pieces. This gives it some credibility because jazz standards [1] in general for information for a lot of jazz related topics. It has a decently formatted page which makes it somewhat believable.

P.S.- here is the page: Oleo (composition)

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