52nd Street Jazz Welcome to 52nd Street Jazz, where you'll find independent reviews of the latest CDs featuring every kind of jazz from contemporary to avant garde; a searchable archive of more than a thousand previous reviews; and a bulletin board--Street Talk--where you can discuss any jazz topic and catch up on important jazz news. And check out the complete list of New and Recent Reviews in addition to the CDs in the Spotlight.

About Jazz Original articles, CD reviews, interviews, well-organized library of links (by About.com Jazz Guide, Blaine Fallis.)

Absolute Jazz covering the world of contemporary jazz and improvised music. (Currently - 000706 - under construction.)

Acid Jazz The Acid Jazz server contains information about the origin of the genre, group listings, clubs guides, discographies, and various pointers to related information. The complete mail archive of the acid-jazz mailing list is available, as is a search facility.

African Genesis Jazz Links Read descriptions of the early days of jazz and biographies of early musicians. Peruse excerpts from periodicals published in the 1930s.

All About Jazz | Jazz Magazine and Resource AAJ provides timely coverage of all aspects of Jazz with: media, information, opinion. We try to cover as many styles of Jazz as can be identified, including: modern, avant garde, blues, big band, contemporary, fringes, fusion, funk/groove, dixieland, and latin/afro-cuban.

AMG All Music Guide: Jazz New Orleans Jazz; Dixieland;  Big Band/Swing; Bop; Hard Bop; Cool; Free Jazz/Avant Garde; Fusion; Soul Jazz/Groove

Any Swing Goes Interesting article on the history of swing music as well as related information and links

Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame Online features the Jazzology database, with information on more than 2000 major contributors to jazz, big band, Dixieland and other styles.

ContemporaryJazz.com - The Contemporary Jazz Source The online source of contemporary jazz information since 1996! Navigating thru these pages You'll find almost every jazz place in the World Wide Web.

Contemporary List of Jazz Links * Artists Homepages, discographies, biographies and interviews with jazz artists. Alphabetical INDEX included! * Education Sites providing complex approach for studying jazz.Go and learn jazz by Yourself! * 'Zines Electronic jazz magazines on the net. * Radio Stations Various jazz radio stations' homepages. * Labels Big recording companies and small independent jazz labels. * FestivalsJazz festivals around the world with detailed information. * The Greatest Jazz Resources Short list of MUST jazz places on the WWW. * Other Resources All the rest not inluded above. Don't miss them - they're important too...

Destination Jazz Destination Jazz was created to be a resource for jazz inspired travel. Visit our site to find jazz festival features with artist and venue information as well as ambiance descriptions and sightseeing suggestions. Select a festival that meets your music or vacation interests and let our Travel Services Division arrange for your tickets and travel itinerary. Soon you will have the opportunity to join Club Destination Jazz, our membership organization, to receive special jazz and travel benefits.

Detroit and the Jazz Boom: 1917-1940 The legendary music city known as the Motor Town shaped more than just R & B music of the 1970s. Before that, Detroit was a distinguished jazz hub able to compete against elite jazz forces in St. Louis, New Orleans, and Chicago by branding itself as the city of big band flavor. The migration of jazz musicians northward to Detroit and the growth of Detroit became pivotal in the molding of America's jazz sounds for three key eras: 1917-1922 when jazz was forming from the blend of blues and ragtime music, 1923-1929 when big bands created the reputation of jazz as carefree and rebellious, and 1930-1940 when the swing sound became popular.

Dispensational Jazzology Describes the evolution of the form and the roles of various musicians. Listen to music clips and read reviews of the site.

Dixieland and Jazz Overview Jazz History, with information about jazz and blues artists and bands.

Dixieland Jazz - What Is It? Dixieland Jazz, traditional jazz, Dixieland music, trad jazz, hot jazz

Essays from All Music Guide This site offers essays on specific jazz styles and periods.

Europe Jazz Network Europe Jazz Network has been, since 1987, the first electronic network in the cultural domain. It is a non-profit association of promoters, musicians' associations, artistic directors, consultants of music programmes in Europe working mainly in the field of jazz and improvised music.

European Free Improvisation Pages Begun in January 1995, EFIP is a comprehensive information resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European free improvisation. Every effort has been made to check the information on this site as far as possible; in most cases the information has been sourced from the musicians themselves.

What is Free Improvisation? by Christian Munthe "Improvisation is the activity of, to some extent, creating and constructing a piece of music in the same time as it is being performed. Improvisation in this wide sense is a necessity in all performed music whether it is called arrangement, interpretation, ornamentation, reading or something else."

General Jazz Genre Listings at MusicSearch All of the sites or groups described as General Jazz Genre Listings at MusicSearch.

Guide to Classical Indian/Jazz Fusion This site is an attempt at an ever-broadening perspective on a particular, yet remarkably broad genre of music. It does not include a complete discography for each artist listed within, but rather a listof those recordings relevant to the Classical Indian/Jazz fusion genre

HyperMusic - History of Jazz A brief look at jazz history of the 20th century. In addition to such styles as ragtime, the blues, bigband, bebop, and fusion, History of Jazz also includes short biographies on major jazz musicians.

Infojazz.com Welcome to InfoJazz. Over the next few weeks, we will be adding new features and articles to bring you the latest and most informative jazz news available. At present, InfoJazz is still under construction.

J a z z @ m u s L i n k s Welcome to the newest Jazz Resource on the Internet! Links will be added continuosly - check back often.

Jazz/Blues Archives and Collections catalog | worldcat | using the library | electronic resources | libraries, collections & subjects Chicago Jazz Archive | Jazz/Blues Archives and Collections Below are links to institutions which have jazz and blues archives or significant collections of...

Jazz & Blues Music Home - Yahoo! Music

Jazz Artist Search For A Jazz Artist

Jazz by City and Region - Links - Jazz Improv Magazine Jazz Improv Magazine Links - Jazz Web Sites By Region and City Find out about Jazz Improvisation - The Music, Ideas, Participants and Products .Jazz Improv Magazine is the most comprehensive periodical reference about jazz improvisation, designed for

Jazz Clubs Worldwide Welcome to Jazz Clubs Worldwide -  more than 3000 jazz clubs and venues. Festivals, Agents, Recording Companies, Record dealers. Discussion Forum, Send A Postcard, Bookshop, Gift Shop, and much more...

Jazz Discography Listings Jazz Discographies listed on the The Largest and The Original Big Bands Website

Jazz Ed - Verve Music Group Welcome to Jazz Ed! Jazz covers a broad spectrum of diverse musical styles and searching for a particular type of jazz that you enjoy is often hit-or-miss. Verve Music Group has created "Jazz Ed" as a tool to help you learn about the various jazz styles and their historical significance. Jazz Ed offers a systematic guide to the evolution of jazz and important recordings that exemplify the periods and artists associated with each style. Categories have been selected to define musical, social, and political events important to the development of jazz. Clicking on the links highlighted in each section will bring you to artist discographies, specific album pages, and other features within the site.

Rabid Squirrel's  Jazz Lyrics Archive

Jazz in Film Bibliography: Introduction, Contents & How to Use the Guide This is an annotated guide to jazz performances on film and video in the collections of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress. Included are more than 600 documentaries, television shows, concert performances, theatrical features and short subjects, and various compilations of all types, many of which were produced in recent years for the home video market.

Jazz News Edited by John Swenson

Jazz Organizations catalog | worldcat | using the library | electronic resources | libraries,collections&subjects Chicago Jazz Archive | Jazz Organizations Jazz Organizations American Federation of Jazz Societies American Jazz Symposium Arts Midwest Jazz Pages...

Jazz Roots Rhythms Award-winning resource for African American music requires users to register their email addresses.

Jazz Strings Directory Jazz Strings Home | Featured Artist | Styles | News | Sources | Directory Strings Directory. This page is a directory of jazz string (violin, viola,...

JAZCLASS : Jazz Lessons, Blues Lessons, Saxophone Lessons, Music Lessons by Michael

Jazzcraft essays on jazz and new music theory

Jazzinformation - Arkiv över Orkesterjournalen och Jazz Stage Här är Du välkommen att efterfråga information om artiklar, bilder, skivrecensioner o.a. som förekommit i Jazztidskrifterna Orkesterjournalen (från 1940) och Jazz Stage (från 1995). Sänd ett Email (nedan) och lämna en noggrann beskrivning på ditt önskemål i form av datum, artist, album, orkester m.m. som kan vara av intresse vid sökningen. Ett snabbt svar utlovas utan kostnad. DATABASERNA omfattar 19.500 ARTISTER o.a. samt SKIVRECENSIONER med artist, orkester, album, datum m.m. Övriga databaser är bl.a ett skivregister som är kopplat till skivrecensionerna. Esbjörn Gref  - Nyköping - 0155-28 99 20

JustJazz - Your center for learning jazz Home of the JustJazz  Musicians discussion list as well as jazz education materials . The JustJazz Musicians discussion list has been in existence for 3 years and is a technical discussion list for jazz musicians, educators and students.

MUSIC - JAZZ resources from Nerd World Media Large Index of MUSIC - JAZZ related internet resources created by Nerd World Media. List your resource or Create your own Index.

NEW ORLEANS AND LOUISIANA MUSIC LINKS online guide to New Orleans music and Louisiana music

Playjazz Playjazz is an online catalogue of instructional books, CDs videos on bass, guitar, piano, drums, trumpet, trombone, sax. Many areas of self-study and music education are offered such as: jazz improvisation, bebop, ear training, basslines, jazz patterns, Charlie Parker, Dixieland, traditional jazz, Brazilian music, Latin jazz, swing jazz, bebop, swing, jazz phrasing, jazz ensembles. Each book, video and CD is accurately described and categorized to meet specific needs and levels

PolishJazzArch - Digitilised issues of Jazz Forum Jazz Forum contains a wealth of fascinating material, including: interviews with world-famous artists, articles about musicians, reports from major festival events and concert tours, record and book reviews, and many others. Apart from the Polish-language version, in 1967-1989 Jazz Forum was also issued in English, and in 1976-1981 - in German, which makes the project the more worthwhile, as the digitalised issues will be comprehensible to jazz lovers worldwide.

MSN Encarta - Ragtime American musical genre popular at the turn of the century was a forerunner to modern jazz. Read this reference guide entry.

Researching Jazz - Cornell University Library Search strategy is a library term for the process of finding information in a logical, step-by-step manner. Using a search strategy ensures that you will find the information or material you need as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival & Institute The Ragtime Home Page started off as a home page for the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival and grew into an information source for Ragtime fans everywhere once I realized there was (initially) nothing available. Since Ragtime music is not in the mainstream, I know how difficult it can be to get information about recordings, books, sheet music, concerts and festivals, performers, etc. I have tried to provide as much information as I can here to help.

Styles of Jazz - a map This chart of Jazz Styles is derived from Joachim Berendt's The Jazz Book. This book is indispensible to any person seeking a comprehensive survey of the history of Jazz. Berendt masterfully covers the evolution of this complex music from several parallel perspectives, helping readers absorb history from more than one direction. This structure also makes the book a pleasure to browse.

The Sidney Bechet Cociety was founded in 1997 and has recently opened it's own website.

The Vocal Jazz Resource The Jazz Vocal Resource is just that - A resource for the jazz vocalist, the vocal jazz educator, and fans of vocal jazz. In our research on the internet, we found that, while there were a virtual bounty of sites dedicated to the jazz instrumentalist, none could be found for the vocalist. There is a degree of solidarity within the instrumental jazz community which seems to be lacking in its vocal counterpart. This site is our effort to help bring about that sort of solidarity.

Traditional Jazz (Dixieland)

Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) Dixieland Jazz - What Is It?

TradJAZZ - Traditional Jazz Information and Resources TradJAZZ is a new web site devoted to the Traditional Jazzist. We will be featuring Traditional Jazz news, upcoming performances, JASS club listings, and an online chat for people worldwide to share their interests!

What is Jazz? A four part ARTSEDGE lecture series, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr. Billy Taylor, noted jazz pianist, historian, and educator, shares glimpses of his extensive knowledge of jazz music from its roots in the African-American slavery experience, through the early days of ragtime, and onward through swing, bop, and progressive jazz. Dr. Taylor combines academic research with a wealth of personal knowledge of the music and shares many fascinating anecdotes about the great artists of jazz. He cautions, however, that four hours is only long enough to scratch the surface. For an in depth look at jazz history, get a copy of "Jazz Piano, A Jazz History", or better yet, enroll in Dr. Taylor's semester long jazz history course at Rutgers University.

WNUR-FM JazzWeb at Northwestern University in Evanston * Styles of Jazz (hypermap and essays) * Artists (bios, discographies, reviews) * Performance (festivals, venues, reviews, regional jazz info) * Jazz Instruments (a revised approach) * Media (radio, television, press) * Jazz Art * Jazz Education and Musicianship * Jazz Retailers on the Net * Jazz Labels on the Net * Other Jazz Resources on the Internet

WORLD WIDE JAZZ WEB Jazz Musicians/Jazz Clubs/Jazz Management/Labels/Gigs/Looking for.../Jazz Groups/Jazz Festivals/Jazz Magazines/More Jazz Sites/Instruments/Jazz by Region

YAHOO!'s Jazz Site