Jazz Resources

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General Jazz Resources

♦ A Place For Jazz: Jazz links to many subjects

A Place for Jazz, founded in 1987, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to presenting the best in Jazz.

♦ Jazz Studies Online: Digital resources representing the diversity & innovation in jazz studies

♦ Jazz Conversations

♦ Jazz Music Archives

JAZZMUSICARCHIVES.COM (JMA) intends to be a complete and powerful Jazz music resource. You can find Jazz artists discographies from 8922 bands & artists, 91578 releases, ratings and reviews from members who also participate in the forum.

♦ Leo T. Sullivan's jazz websites covering 64 jazz biographies.

Useful Jazz Websites

The National Jazz Archive: http://www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk

Jazz and European Cultures: Rhythm Changes: http://www.rhythmchanges.net

Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers, Newark NJ: http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/jazzlaa about.html

Journal of Jazz Studies: httpAjs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.phods

Jazz Research Journal (Leeds) http://www.equinoxpub.com/JAZZ • Current Research in Jazz (Open source) http://www.crj-online.orgi • Leeds College of Music Archive http://www.lcm.ac.uk/about-lcm/jazz-archive • Chicago Jazz Archive http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/ • Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane, New Orleans ilthxdjazz.tulane.edu/ • International Jazz Collection, Idaho http://www.ijc.uidaho.edu/ • International Research and Information Center on Jazz, Darmsdatt http://wwwjazzinstitut.de/us.htm • British Library; Jazz in Britain, Oral History http://sounds.bLuk/Jazz-and-popular-music/Oral-history-of-jazz-in-Britain/ • Alan Lomax Archive, Cultural Equity Organization http://www.culturalequity.org/

Jazz Quotations

♦ Quotations from Jazz musicians, composers and fans at APassionForJazz.net

♦ Jazz Quotations They claim to be the #1 Resource on the Web for Quotations and Sayings about jazz.

“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new sense of hope or triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone toward all of these.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., opening speech at the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival) (bold and bold italic not in original)

"Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation: Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor," at "Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation: Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor," Sven Bjerstedt, (accessed January 30, 2019).

Jazz Glossary

♦ Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies Jazz Glossary

About the Jazz Glossary: The Jazz Glossary is a multimedia index of vocabulary specific to the interdisciplinary field of jazz. It includes more than 250 terms ranging from the sounds and techniques of jazz music to relevant cultural and historical phenomena. (Terms that apply more generally to all musics are not included.) The terms contained in the Jazz Glossary were developed from a number of sources, and edited by John Szwed of Columbia University. Special thanks for their help to Professor Chris Washburne of Columbia University and Professor Lewis Porter and the graduate students of the Master's Program in Jazz History and Research of Rutgers University-Newark.

Jazz Slang

♦ All About Jazz.com's "Jazz Slang"

♦ "What is Hip?" and other inquiries in jazz slang lexicography" A revision of a paper given at the Music Library Association New York State-Ontario Chapter meeting in Buffalo, N.Y. on 14 October 1999 by Rick McRae, associate librarian of the music library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

On Improvisation

♦ Jazz Advice: Inspiration for Improvisers (many tips about practicing and improvisation)

How Does Jazz Work?

♦ Ethan Hein on "How Jazz Works"

Miles Davis and John Coltrane

History of Jazz

♦ Encyclopedia.com on Jazz

♦ The Atlantic Monthly (Online) All jazz-related articles 1922 to 2003.

♦ "Hear the Earliest Surviving Radio Broadcast by Duke Ellington, A Historic Find, in Deep Dive," by Lewis Porter, October, 4, 2018.

The Jazz Track

♦ The Jazz Track is an itinerary for visiting jazz-related places in the United States.

SoulandJazzandFunk

♦ SoulandJazzandFunk website by Bill Buckley and Charles Waring.

Soul and Jazz and Funk, an independent soul news and reviews website compiled by Charles Waring and Bill Buckley, two of the UK's most experienced and respected Soul music writers. Both Charles and Bill have written for Blues and Soul magazine for over ten years and their contributions and album reviews have always been accepted as fair, sound and accurate. At the same time Charles and Bill have contributed to a number of other magazines - Melody Maker, Sounds, (Black) Echoes, MOJO and Record Collector. Between them, they have compiled dozens of albums for major and independent Soul labels and written hundreds of sleeve notes. Their work has allowed them to interview countless Soul artists.

Ph.D. in Jazz & Improvisation

♦ Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

♦ Effortless Mastery Institute, with Director Kenny Werner who wrote Effortless Mastery.

Jazz Around the World

♦ Jazz in India Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay's Jazz Age

♦ Polish Jazz For Dummies: 60 Years Of Jazz From Poland written by Cezary L. Lerski