Music: By Subject Subject Guide

Jazz

12 resources available
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Books about Jazz

General, ML 3506-3509, ML 3561 .J3; Big band, ML 3518; Blues, ML 3521; Ragtime, ML 3530.

All About Jazz

Newsy jazz resource with reviews, articles, artist profiles, discussion topics, sound files, a bulletin board, links to many other jazz sites.

Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

Ref ML 102 .J3 F4 1999
Brief biographies of hundreds of jazz artists. Besides basic information, each entry lists individuals and groups with whom the artist performed.

Blues Bibliography

Ref ML 128 .B49 F67 2007
Lists more than 26,000 articles, books, internet resources and record liner notes for blues artists, ranging from acoustic country blues to R&B and modern blues performers.

Current Research in Jazz

An online open access journal designed to publish peer-reviewed articles of original jazz research. In addition to shorter articles of a scholarly nature, it publishes bibliographies, indices, chronologies, and other research aids to serve and support jazz scholarship.

DownBeat.com

Site for the popular jazz magazine, with news, artist bios, reviews, festival directory, jazz education, etc.

ejazzlines.com

Commerical site, "the global resource for jazz." CDs, DVDs, charts, books, fakebooks, and other jazz resources for sale.

Jazz in America Resource Library

Jazz history, glossary, information on musicians, images, links to other resources.

Jazz Music Library 

Listen to more than 131,000 tracks of all types of jazz by solo artists and ensembles from throughout jazz history to the present day. Make and save playlists for classes or just for pleasure. Also accessible through Music Online.

Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy: a Research and Information Guide

Ref ML 128 .J3 M34 2005
A comprehensive bibliography listing books and other materials (excluding articles) on all aspects of jazz. Expanded from the author's Jazz Reference and Research Materials (1981 and 1995).

Oxford Music Online 

Covers music and musicians of all types and time periods; includes
bibliographies, composers' worklists, links to related sites, audio and music examples. Provides access to Grove Music Online (incorporating the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz), as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Red Hot Jazz Archive

History of jazz before 1930. Profiles of musicians; streaming audio of over 1,000 recordings.

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