Jazz Research Portal

ACADEMIC JAZZ PROGRAMS, ARCHIVES, ETC.

University of North Texas Jazz Studies Division page

Louis Armstrong Archives  at Queens College

Berklee College of Music  in Boston

Stan Getz Media Center and Library  at Berklee College of Music

The Institute of Jazz Studies  at Rutgers University

William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz  at Tulane University

Jazz Museum in Harlem

WNUR-FM JazzWeb  from Northwestern University

Chicago Jazz Archive  from the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library

Brubeck Institute   The Brubeck Institute at University of the Pacific

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/researchguides/jazzguide.html 
Jazz Research Guide from the University of Oregon's Knight Library

http://www.darmstadt.de/kultur/musik/jazz/us.htm
Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, "Europe's largest public research archive on jazz"

http://www.kug.ac.at/ijf/website_directory/institute/overview.html
Institute for Jazz Research in Graz, Austria

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

National Ragtime and Jazz Archive  at Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville

The Benny Goodman Papers  at Yale University

The Gerry Mulligan Collection at Library of Congress

blackgrooves.org
from Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture

http://www.monkinstitute.com/
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

The Tommy Shepard Collection at the University of Arizona
includes 8,000+ photos from the trombonist's long career, with special emphasis on the 1960s; some of the photos are online

Jazz Journalists Association
click the Last Post hotlink for a database of jazz people who recently passed away, with an obituary for each

New England Jazz Hall of Fame
from New England Jazz Alliance

Center for Jazz Arts
in Los Angeles, "dedicated to the advancement of American jazz culture."

Jazz on the Screen:  A Jazz and Blues Filmography
by David Meeker, Library of Congress.   "This searchable filmography documents the work of some 1,000 major jazz and blues figures in over 14,000 cinema, television and video productions."

JAZZdocumentation
site from a jazz club in Switzerland with oral history about Swiss jazz artists

Charleston Jazz Initiative

A website dedicated to the history of jazz in Charleston, South Carolina.  Includes a list of useful links to local jazz societies and festivals and oral histories via video streaming documenting the life of jazz musicians in the Charleston area.

MAJOR JAZZ META-SITES

WNUR-FM JazzWeb  
from Northwestern University, with historical charts, links for many individual artists, and much more

Contemporary List of JAZZ Links  
by Piotr Marek, Polish jazz enthusiast; valuable for its size even though not revised any more

Michael Fitzgerald Jazz Research  
award-winning site by a high school teacher and jazz researcher who maintains a hard bop discussion list

http://www.nprjazz.org/  
major jazz news, reviews, and important links

http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/
a portal intended to preserve and promote jazz, with a feature called
"This Day in Jazz History"

HISTORICAL SITES

Early Jazz

http://www.redhotjazz.com/
The Red Hot Jazz Archive; a History of Jazz before 1930
  
http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/raeburn/rivboatintro.htm
Riverboats and Jazz online exhibit from Tulane University's
William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive

http://www.riverwalk.org/
Homepage for Jim Cullum's Riverwalk Jazz program on NPR
which often features early jazz

Big Band Era

http://www.nfo.net/
Big bands database

Bebop and Beyond

http://www.northwestern.edu/jazz/styles/bebop.html
Styles: Bebop, from Northwestern University's WNUR JazzWeb

http://www.northwestern.edu/jazz/styles/
Styles of Jazz:  a map, from the WNUR JazzWeb; with hotlinks for individual style pages providing definitions and lists of major artists

http://town.hall.org/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/bt_genre.html
Bebop, Cool Jazz, and Contemporary Jazz are discussed in Dr. Billy Taylor's Jazz Styles lectures at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

http://festivalproductions.net/  
promoting jazz festivals across the United States

JAZZ ARTIST SITES

Duke Ellington

http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/ellington.duke/
Artists:  Duke Ellington
From Northwestern University's WNUR Jazz Web

http://www.depanorama.net/
A Duke Ellington Panorama

http://www.redhotjazz.com/dukeo.html
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

http://www.thedukeellingtonsociety.org/
A nonprofit in New York City celebrating Ellington and Strayhorn's music

http://www.dukes-place.co.uk/
The Duke Ellington Society UK   "The Duke Ellington Society of the United Kingdom's purpose is to further the study, appreciation and dissemination of the music of Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington and his writing and arranging companion Billy Strayhorn."

http://ellingtonweb.ca/
Ellington on the Web, a vast collection of Ellington links

http://www.dellington.org/
Duke Ellington Centennial Celebration, Celebrating 100 Years of the Man and His Music; A joint venture of the National Museum of American History, the Music Educators National Conference, and The Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE

http://dukeontheweb.com/

A French site dedicated to the music and person of Duke Ellington.

http://www.ellington.se/

This is the site of the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden.

Count Basie

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/cb/
One More Once-  A Celebration of the Life and Music of Count Basie from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University

Dave Brubeck

http://library.pacific.edu/ha/brubeck/
Dave Brubeck Collection from Pacific University, including
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/brubeck/Grant.asp
information on the Brubeck Collection Research Travel Grant

Louis Armstrong

http://www.satchmo.net
The official site for the Louis Armstrong House and Archives

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/jazzhist.html
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Charles Mingus

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/
The Real Mingus Web

http://mingus.onttonen.info/
Charles Mingus Home Page (unofficial) from Finnish musician and
scholar Esa Onttonen

Charlie Parker

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5066/
A Tribute to Charlie Parker

Miles Davis

http://www.milesdavis.com/
The Official Miles Davis Web Site

Thelonious Monk

http://www.monkzone.com/
The Official Thelonius Monk Website

http://www.howardm.net/tsmonk/tsmonk.php
The Thelonious Monk Website

Stan Kenton

http://www.52ndstreet.com/kenton/clinics.htm
Stan Kenton Clinics, a site devoted to the band clinics once held by Kenton several summers

http://home.comcast.net/~noel.wedder/kentonindex2.html
Stan Kenton Orchestra Index, much Kenton information from the 52nd Street Jazz Page 

Fats Waller

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm
Fats Waller Forever Digital Exhibit from the Institute of Jazz Studies
at Rutgers University

MISCELLANEOUS SITES

http://www.52ndstreet.com/
52nd Street Jazz Page, "The Internet's No. 1 Jazz Review Web Site"

http://www.geocities.com/dferg5493/
Don Ferguson's Tin Pan Alley, with history, songs in full text, and more

Jazz at Lincoln Center  
promoting the concert series and much more

PBS:  Jazz  
A page promoting the Ken Burns film

http://www.johnroachemusic.com/
John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library, featuring ragtime, stride, 
and novelty piano

Jazz Standards, Jazz History, Musicology, Biographies and Books
"Preserving jazz history by documenting the origins of the standards," lists 1,000 standards and provides detailed information on the top 100

Noal Cohen's Jazz History Web Site
with discographies of selected jazz artists, links, and more

Mosaic Records photography 
Images from Francis Wolff and Herman Leonard, photographers who
specialized in jazz artists

Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
from the Library of Congress

Canadian Jazz Archive

This site offers streamed audio of concerts recorded for radio station Jazz FM.91's Jazz Concert Series.  Concerts are searchable and organized alphabetically by artist or group.

The Online Discographical Project

A growing discography of 78s organized by recording label.

Centro Studi sul Jazz Arrigo Polillo

An Italian Jazz Archive.  Includes detailed index of "Music Jazz" magazine, covering 40 years of publication (1945-).

BLOGS

http://blog.libero.it/MondoJazz/view.php?reset=1&id=MondoJazz

A jazz blog from Italy with many excellent links to video and sound clips and current news about jazz musicians and performances.

http://www.jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/

This blog offers profiles of leading jazz artists, including information about book and recording releases that relate to the different artists.