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Red Hot Jazz Archive - http://www.redhotjazz.com/
A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography. |
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Smithsonian Jazz - http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/
The National Museum of American History offers audio, video and text; oral histories, artists, videos, portraits and concert program notes. |
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Chicago Jazz Archive - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/
Significant collection founded in 1976 at the University of Chicago including early recordings, sheet music, photos and piano rolls, much of which is accessible online. |
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A Passion for Jazz - http://www.apassion4jazz.net/
History of styles and musicians with timeline, glossary, photos, festivals, teacher locator, and shopping for fakebooks and instruction books. |
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America's Jazz Heritage - http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/
A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. |
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Great Day in Harlem - http://www.harlem.org/
Click on Art Kane's August 1958 photograph of 57 jazz musicians for names of those pictured, or browse by timeline, instrument, or style. Link to the Jean Bach documentary of the shoot, online sales of the photo originally published in Esquire magazine. |
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The Norwegian Jazz Base - http://www.jazzbasen.no/index_eng.html
A history of jazz in Norway. Includes photographs, sound clips, jazz links and biographies. |
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Modern Jazz Discography - http://www.jazzdisco.org/
Catalog of recordings released by Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside Records, sorted by musician, label and date. Session indexes, biographical notes, links. |
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JazzStandards.com - http://www.jazzstandards.com
Documentation on the jazz standards including their origins, histories, musical analyses, song-writer and performer biographies, book reviews, and CD recommendations. |
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Swing Music Net - http://www.swingmusic.net/
The history of swing music from the 1930's until today. |
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What is Jazz? - http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/
Four lectures on jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor. |
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The Jazz Archive - http://www.rainerjazz.com/
Jazz archive, photos, and vintage records are displayed. A historic jazz calendar is included. |
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The Los Angeles Jazz Institute - http://lajazzinstitute.org
Houses and maintains one of the largest jazz archives in the world. All styles and eras are represented with special emphasis on preservation and documentation of jazz in southern California. |
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Heptune: Lorenz-Pulte Jazz Page - http://www.heptune.com/jazzfolk.html
Fan site profiling Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fats Waller, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Lil Johnson. |
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Club Kaycee - http://www.umkc.edu/orgs/kcjazz/
A sound-and-sight archive from the library of the Kansas City campus of the University of Missouri. |
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The Hard Bop - http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/
Music and the musicians of the jazz style of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photos. |
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Basinstreet.com - http://www.basinstreet.com/
Dedicated to the preservation of early jazz history. |
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Remembrance of Swings Past - http://www.tonyspage.com/
Collection of articles with text and photos by Tony Gieske, jazz reporter in the 1950s for the Washington Post and later for the Hollywood Reporter. |
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Jimmy Rushing's Hot Spot - http://www.jimmyrushing.com
The life and music of the blues shouter are outlined in anecdotes, discography and a lengthy 1963 interview taken from the Stanley Dance book, "The World of Count Basie." Photos and links. |
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Jazz: You Like It - http://www.afgen.com/jazlinks.html
African Genesis portal offers one-line biographies of New Orleans musicians, a lengthy discussion of Louis Armstrong, and a collection of clippings and quotes on jazz from the 1930s. |
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Historian Max Morath on Popular Music Standards - http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=morath.html
Musician and historian Max Morath discusses American popular music standards with Jerry Jazz Musician. Pictures, sound files, text. |
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The History of Jazz Music - http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/zaire/721/historyframe.htm
The history of jazz from the beginning to the present day. |
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Jazz Roots - http://www.jass.com/
Tom Morgan offers lavishly illustrated profiles of early 20th century performers along with links to books, a timeline from 1800 to 1930, and images of early sheet music including a year-by-year collection of Cotton Club Parades. |
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A Brief History of Modern Jazz - http://www.moodjazz.com/history.html
Succinct summary of major artists identified with bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, bossa nova, and jazz rock. With links to audio from Milt Jackson tribute CD. |
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Jazz, Hot and Cold - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/jazz/sundgaar.htm
Essay by librettist Arnold Sundgaard on jazz history as originally published June, 1955 in the Atlantic Monthly. |
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A History of Jazz - http://www.historyjazz.com/
Provides information about jazz history with links to jazz clubs and festivals. Also includes a gallery of jazz posters. |
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http://www.parabrisas.com - http://www.parabrisas.com
An encyclopedia of big band, classic jazz, and lounge music. |
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Mars Club of Paris - http://www.marsclubofparis.com/
Internationally known jazz club where many Americans gathered to play in the 1950s. Features photograph of a door inscribed with the names of musicians who appeared at the club, and memories of Billy Strayhorn. |
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Music and You Jazz History - http://musicandyou.com/musichistory.htm
This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz |
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Kansas City Jazz - http://members.tripod.com/~isaziz/index.html
Loose collection of pages devoted to Count Basie, Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, and Bennie Moten, with a page for the modern Basie band under Grover Mitchell. Photos, link to ring. |