Jazz

Resources in this category:

A Passion 4 Jazz
http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, webcasts, guitar & piano chords, scales, online lessons and music teacher locator.

All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

This comprehensive site includes jazz news, reviews, festivals, interviews, audio downloads, photos, and biographies of over 3600 jazz musicians.

A Great Day in Harlem
http://www.harlem.org/

"Explore jazz history through one photograph" of 57 jazz musicians taken in Harlem in August 1958. Site includes a timeline on jazz history and biographies of jazz musicians browsable by artist, musical style, or instrument.

Jazz Clubs around the World
http://www.wnur.org/jazz/lists/clubs.html

A listing of jazz clubs, arranged by city, along with phone numbers and street addresses.

The Jazz Review
http://www.jazzreview.com/

Everything you want to know about jazz, including reviews, biographies, photos, news, history, jazz radio stations, NetRadio jazz broadcasts, concerts, and a free monthly e-mail newsletter.

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

The online counterpart to Ken Burns' documentary Jazz includes extensive biographical profiles and discographies of major jazz musicians, a chronology of the development of jazz, essays about jazz and its place in American culture, and audio clips of jazz compositions.

Minnesota Public Radio: One hundred Years of the Maple Leaf Rag
http://music.mpr.org/features/9905_ragtime/index.shtml

A history, complete with a timeline and audio files, of ragtime music in the 20th century.

Music Information Centre Norway
http://www.mic.no/english

Genres on this website include: world/folk/ethnic; jazz; classical/contemporary; pop/rock/electronica. There are also sections dedicated to artist biographies, CD reviews, and music downloads. Available in both English and Norwegian.

Music.org.za
http://www.music.org.za/

Provides information about South African musical artists and general information to support regional music as well as to educate an international audience.

NPR Jazz
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10002

Includes music and book reviews, descriptions and schedules of jazz programming on National Public Radio, profiles of musicians, and expert recommendations from the NPR Basic Jazz Record Library. Profiles and recommendations include audio clips.

"Perfessor" Bill Edwards Ragtime / Old-time Piano Gallery
http://www.perfessorbill.com/

A site dedicated to all types of ragtime and old time resources. Here you can find biographies, recordings, lyrics, and more.

Rec.music.bluenote FAQs
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/rec/rec.music.bluenote...

HTML versions of the rec.music.bluenote and rec.music.bluenote.blues Usenet news groups, focusing on Jazz and Blues. Includes bibliographies.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Resource on the early years of jazz. Archive includes information on the musicians, songs and films that shaped the evolution of this music genre. Site allows users to search or browse the database where they can listen to selected songs, read biographies, and view images.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com/

This jazz archive primarily focuses on music before 1930 and features artists like Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Krupa, and Bessie Smith. Contents include artist biographies, audio files, video files and essays like "Billie Holiday’s Small Band Recordings of 1935-1939" and "The Young Sidney Bechet".

Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz
http://www.jazzinamerica.org/

A jazz resource library complete with lesson plans for educators, audio clips, artist biographies, and digital images. You will also find "style sheets" that describe the general characteristics of a variety of jazz styles including dixieland, cool jazz, swing, bebop, ragtime, and third-stream.

William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html

"The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. This online collection presents Gottlieb's photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and related articles from Down Beat magazine."

WNUR-FM JazzWeb
http://www.wnur.org/jazz/

Jazz related information, including a hyper-map history of jazz, biographies, and upcoming live performances.