Jazz Links
A Place for Jazz does much more than put on its fall concert series. APFJ also has a strong commitment to promoting music education through concerts, public workshops, school-based clinics, this website and general support of Jazz and its musicians.
One of our most important initiatives has been the annual APFJ scholarship for students pursuing a musical education at SUNY Schenectady, an initiative that goes back to our very beginnings. Scholarships are funded entirely from cash donations, the proceeds from food & beverage sales and proceeds from the 50/50 raffles. We are very proud of our scholarship awardees, who have achieved significant accomplishments and even found their careers as music educators and performers. APFJ has awarded over $10,000 in scholarships to deserving students.
APFJ also contracts with many of its musicians to present jazz clinics and workshops in area schools and community organizations. In addition, APFJ has traditionally invited high school and middle school student jazz bands to perform at the intermissions of its concerts.
If you put JAZZ into a search engine (and ignore the references to basketball teams), you’ll come up with maybe 200 million hits. That’s enough to scare away even the most avid Jazz fan. We’ve listed below some generally useful sites, broken into broad categories. Each site has many links that lead you deeper into the subject (or maybe further away). If you’ve got suggestions for the list, please let me know; maybe we’ll add them. These are in no particular order. (These links were active at the time of entry, but the web is a volatile place. If you find that any of these links no longer work, please let us know, and we’ll either update or delete them. Thank you.)
| History and general | Jazz festivals | Where to buy Jazz stuff |
| Living musicians | Dead musicians | Jazz Humor |
| Orgs & Publications | Hear Jazz On Line | Local links & Miscellaneous |
History and general discussions (in no particular order)
Jazz festivals
A link to find Jazz festivals around the world
And a link for all sorts of festivals
Selected Bands & Living musicians (mostly local)
Oscar Aleman (The Argentinean guitarist you never heard of)
Louis Armstrong Bio #1 Bio #2 Bio #3
Jazzbeat.org Jazz education material, jazz lessons, jazz CD’s and DVD’s, and jazz related merchandise
Jazz Humor
Swing Era & modern colloquialisms
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Traditional Jazz Educators Network International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Jazz Journal UK-based coverage of all things jazz. Syncopated Times “Exploring the world of hot jazz,ragtime and swing” |
OKOM (Our Kind Of Music)
Barbara Kaiser’s “Jazz & …”
Live365 wide selection of all styles
www.jazzradio.com 17 different jazz channels
Nancy Barell “Jazz Spotlight On Sinatra”
AccuJazz.com Many listening choices
Jazz Valley – an interesting French site (in English)
Not specifically a jazz link, but covers the Albany arts scene in general
Keep Swinging – an interesting site from The Netherlands
Jazz Professional – Interviews, profiles, and all kinds of other good stuff
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
An article in the Feb 2018 issue of Capital Region Living magazine about the local jazz scene.