Band Leaders and their orchestras

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@Torc

I’d suggest this for jazz or big band or easy listening bandleader, just using Gillespie as an example: keep a solo profile for Gillespie as a person. File any solo releases under that and use it for any place he’s credited as a guest with another ensemble, relationships, composition credits, etc., same as we do now. Then take any artist pages that are “Dizzy Gillespie [band]” and merge them into a single artist, keeping the existing artist credits, or updating them to match what’s on each release. Gillespie would still be a member of this band – probably the only continuous member, so these would still use one artist credit: [“Dizzy Gillespie bands” as “Dizzy Gillespie’s All-Star Debacle”], not [“Dizzy Gillespie”]'s [“Dizzy Gillespie bands” as “All-Star Debacle”].

Related discussion here:

Guideline for when a bandmember is credited as "featured"

That’s fine, but that’s only achievable through relationships, not through ACs. (I’m surprised there isn’t already a page that shows all releases a person appears on as a bandmember – probably a script could do it). If you tried doing this through ACs for Lynne, you’d end up with a page of his two solo albums and the one (so far) ELO album where they went as “Jeff Lynne’s ELO”. The page wouldn’t include anything else from ELO, Travelling Wilburys, The Move, Idle Race, etc. Manfred Mann’s page…

Where the majority on here, at this stage, don’t agree with taking this approach as default in all cases.