https://musicbrainz.org/release/a4a679b5-6bb6-4c46-abcd-1f9bdf95d13e has a bunch of recordings credited to Jimmy Cleveland Septet - MusicBrainz (looks like jazz) and Cleveland Octet - MusicBrainz (looks like classical). I think the latter should be Jimmy Cleveland Octet - MusicBrainz (which I just created) instead. Is there any easy way to update all of those recordings at once?
I figured it out. On the artist aliases page, there’s an edit button next to each artist credit.
Are you aware that there are already recordings of the Octet in the database? They all come from the album Complete Recordings by Jimmy Cleveland credited as “Jimmy Cleveland Septet / Octet”. Some of the tracks appear on other album too, credited to Jimmy Cleveland alone. I think, it would have been better to keep it like that and assign the tracks to recordings by “Jimmy Cleveland credited as…”.
BTW, Jimmy Cleveland Octet, as well as Septet, All Stars, etc. is Jazz.
I just saw a bunch of recordings credited to Cleveland Octet that seemed like they were probably on the wrong artist, so I wanted to fix that. I have no idea how they should be credited, just that they probably should not be credited to Cleveland Octet. So I tried to make the smallest change I could to fix that, and leave the rest to others. Feel free to be one of those others if you want. 
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I would use Jimmy Cleveland, credited as Cleveland Octet, but it’s up to you. There’s already a Sextet, Septet and …His All Stars, with no or almost no releases. I will not complain, whatever you do. So far Jimmy Cleveland isn’t in my collection, though that might change
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… then the should be associated to Jimmy Cleveland (sorry, I should have read the sentence to its end 
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