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General Jazz Resources[edit]

♦ DownBeat magazine's Jazz 101

♦ 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.

Jazz Bibliography[edit]

Useful Jazz Websites[edit]

Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program

“These transcriptions and recordings of oral histories of NEA Jazz Masters are part of the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program: Established by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 1992, the Program seized the opportunity to document more than one hundred senior jazz musicians, performers, relatives, and business associates. Each interview was conducted by a jazz authority and was recorded on digital audiotape by a professional audio engineer. The interviews average six hours in length and cover a wide range of topics including early years, initial involvement in music, generally, and jazz specifically, as well as experiences in the jazz music world, including relationships to musicians.” (bold not in original)

Jazz Library is a free and open source jazz piano textbook, in process. Discovery practical ideas and techniques for improving your jazz piano playing, including voicings, scales, lead sheet approaches, chord substitutions and more.

The National Jazz Archive United Kingdom is the United Kingdom's (UK) 🇬🇧 research and information centre for the history of jazz, blues, and related music holding the UK’s finest collection of written, printed and visual material on jazz, blues and related music from the 1920s to now documenting, preserving and making accessible the past, present and future of jazz and related musics

National Jazz Museum in Harlem located at 58 West 129th Street, Harlem, New York, NY 10027 (212) 348-8300 email: info@jmih.org

Open everyday from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm, except closed Tuesday and Wednesday and all Federal holidays.

The mission of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem is to preserve, promote, and present jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation and celebration of jazz locally, nationally, and internationally.

Jazz and European Cultures: Rhythm Changes dedicated to bringing researchers together, in Europe

Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey
The mission of the Institute of Jazz Studies is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the heritage of jazz, an American art form that has been embraced by the world. Vision: The Institute of Jazz Studies will be a leader in fostering the recognition of jazz as a seminal American contribution to world culture by sharing its unique holdings and expertise through emergent technologies and innovative programming. Goals: Collect, preserve, and make accessible the materials in the Institute of Jazz Studies archives to the growing field of jazz scholarship and research, to the jazz community, the media, and other legitimately interested parties.

Journal of Jazz Studies, (formerly the print journal Annual Review of Jazz Studies) is an open-access peer reviewed online journal published by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, providing a forum for jazz scholarship from technical analyses to oral history to bibliography to cultural interpretation

Jazz Research Journal (Leeds)

Current Research in Jazz (Open source)

Leeds College of Music Jazz Archive
(1) Ted Heath's manuscript band scores and parts. Ted Heath led Britain's greatest post-war big band.
(2) Max Abrams diaries, scrapbooks and correspondence give a detailed insight into the life of this well-known drum teacher who got jobs for his students with the top big bands.
(3) Joe Daniels's Band sets, both original and published arrangements, whose drumming career lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s.
(4) Reel to reel tapes of around 5,000 hours of recordings of Duke Ellington, some of which have never been made available commercially.
(5) There are many thousands of recordings available in the archive, including 33rpm albums, 78rpm discs, home-recorded cassette tapes and a huge CD collection.
(6) Ronnie Aldrich Band set scores. He was the pianist in The Squadronaires from 1940 and later famous for his Phase 4 stereo recordings exploiting the stereo possibilities of two pianos.

Chicago Jazz Archive The Chicago Jazz Archive was founded in 1976 to preserve materials on the birth and early growth of Chicago jazz spanning more than eight decades of Chicago and general jazz history.

Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane, New Orleans

International Jazz Collection, Idaho

International Research and Information Center on Jazz, Darmstadt

British Library; Jazz in Britain, Oral History

Alan Lomax Archive, Cultural Equity Organization

Alan Lomax (1915-2002)

Gene Lee's Jazz Newsletter Archive

Gene Lees (1928-2010)]

Noal Cohen's Jazz History Website: Other Jazz Websites of Interest

Washington, D. C. Jazz Network

Jazz Interviews[edit]

Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired

John Coltrane Audio Only Interviews:

Interviewed by August Blume, June 15, 1958, Courtesy of the Slought Foundation

Interviewed by Michiel de Ruyter, Part 1, November 19, 1961, Courtesy of the Dutch jazz archives

Interviewed by Michiel de Ruyter, Part 2, December 1, 1962, Courtesy of the Dutch jazz archives

Interviewed by Michiel de Ruyter, Part 3, October 26, 1963, Courtesy of the Dutch jazz archives

Interviewed by Michiel de Ruyter, Part 4, July 27, 1965, Courtesy of the Dutch jazz archives

Interviewed by Kaname Kawachi, July 9, 1966, Japan

Interviewed by Frank Kofski, August 18, 1966, Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives

50 Jazz Inspirational Video Interviews from JazzAdvice.com: Click on the JazzAdvice link to see and hear interviews with these artists.

Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter

John Coltrane

Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh

Clark Terry

Bill Evans

Charlie "Bird" Parker

Lester Young

Clifford Brown

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

Gerry Mulligan

Coleman Hawkins

Oscar Peterson

Duke Ellington

Ella Fitzgerald

Chet Baker

Chick Corea

Charles Mingus

Dave Liebman

Dizzy Gillespie

Freddie Hubbard

Ron Carter

Art Blakey

Miles Davis

Jerry Jazz Musician Interviews

Jazz Quotations[edit]

♦ 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 [edit]

♦ 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[edit]

♦ 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[edit]

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

How Does Jazz Work?[edit]

♦ Ethan Hein on "How Jazz Works"

Miles Davis and John Coltrane

History of Jazz[edit]

♦ See PoJ.fm's own Ep16. What are jazz legend's notable accomplishments?

♦ 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[edit]

♦ The Jazz Track

is an itinerary for visiting jazz-related places (particularly big band and traditional jazz) in the United States 🇺🇸 by car over 13 days to follow the route of jazz via travels to the following cities: New York City → Chicago → Kansas City → Memphis → New Orleans.

Jazz-Philosophy Fusion[edit]

♦ Jazz-Philosophy Fusion website by Professor James Tartaglia

JazzPhi (pronounced "Jazz-Fye") is a new subgenre of music, created by Prof. James Tartaglia, that uses jazz to approach philosophical ideas. For the philosophy behind JazzPhi see What is the Philosophy behind JazzPhi?.

SoulandJazzandFunk[edit]

♦ 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[edit]

♦ Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

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

Jazz Around the World[edit]

♦ 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