- The Joint performer entitty was created for occasional collaboration between artists.
- That way, we avoid needing to create actual artists for each occasional collaboration.
- Hence, you can't do very much with them - the idea is that you don't want to manage these occasional collaborations.
- Joint performers are not real objects/artists in the database, it's just visualization. This means their use is limited to:
- Assigning as performer to performances and releases
- Viewing as an artist
- Managing itsaliases
- If you need the other artist features, you'll have to create an actual artist entity for it.
Example: David Bowie and George Underwood had a one-off collaboration performing Song for Bob Dylan as the joint performer George Underwood and David Bowie.
Counter-example: Simon and Garfunkel are not a joint performer but an actual artist, of the "group" type. They have a joint career releasing together multiple albums.
- All of the artists that are part of the the joint performer, need to be mentioned in the joint performer alias.
Example: The Sharps , Dan Grissom and Buddy Harper can all be read in the artist alias Dan Grissom and The Ebb Tones with Buddy Harper's Orch.
Counterexample: The performer of This World Is Not My Home are the Monroe Brothers , not a joint performer but a separate artist. Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe are not explicitly named in the performer alias. - A joint performer can't consist of a group and an artist who is also a member of this group, at the time of the joint performance.
Example: "Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters" is not a joint performer consisting of The Drifters [US] and Clyde McPhatter , because Clyde McPhatter is a member of The Drifters.
- Multiple performers are more likely to be a group and not a joint performer if:
- The individual artists performed together long before they were solo artists
- There are more biographical data available: Picture, country, period of activity, ...