Directory of History Resources

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For sites looking at early jazz as well as those placing jazz from any era in a historical perspective.

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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.

• 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.

• All That Jazz

  http://atj.8k.com/
  The history of jazz starting from the late 1800's.

• Basinstreet.com

  http://www.basinstreet.com/
  Dedicated to the preservation of early jazz history.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Music and You Jazz History

  http://www.musicandyou.com/music-history/
  This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz

• Red Hot Jazz Archive

  http://www.redhotjazz.com/
  A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography.

• Solid!

  http://www.parabrisas.com/
  An encyclopedia of big band, classic jazz, and lounge music.

• Swing Music Net

  http://www.swingmusic.net/
  The history of swing music from the 1930's until today.

• The Hard Bop

  http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/
  Music and the musicians of the jazz style of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photos.

• The Jazz Archive

  http://www.rainerjazz.com/
  Jazz archive, photos, and vintage records are displayed. A historic jazz calendar is included.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Real Godfathers of Punk

  http://www.furious.com/perfect/jazzpunk.html
  E-zine article by Billy Bob Hargus connecting jazz artists auch as Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman with the roots of punk music. Links, photographs.

• What is Jazz?

  http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/
  Four lectures on jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor.

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