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 discussions (in no particular order)
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The Ken Burns film
Dispensational Jazzology
History of Jazz
Jazz.com
JazzCorner
The Styles of Jazz
The Jazz Advocate
Jazz Education: A Timeline (suggested by Nicole H., an elementary school student from NYC)
How Does Smoking Affect Musicians?
Free Blues, Jazz and Holiday Standards lessons
Beginner Jazz Piano Arrrangements course
Intro to New Orleans Piano with Jon Cleary
Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College Youtube interviews by Prof Monk Rowe with hundreds of jazz musicians
A Guide to Music for Kids
A Student Musician’s Guide to Music Theory
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A Great Day in Harlem (video)
A Great Day in Harlem (details)
A Great Day in Albany
JazzPromo
All About Jazz
Red Hot Jazz Archive
America’s Jazz Heritage
The Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
Detroit and the Jazz Boom: 1917-1940
Jazz World Database for those in the business of jazz
Jazz History On-line
A new site (Oct 2020) about the Swing Era in New York State’s Capital District, 1935-1945
Musical Playgrounds for Kids: A History of Jazz Music (Suggested by Girl Scout Julie Stevens, who discovered it while her troop was working on their Junior Musician Badge.)
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Historical Perspective on Jazz by Gunther Schuller
Jazz Professional – Interviews, profiles, and all kinds of other good stuff
Jazzsight profiles, interviews, etc.
Jazz is Art/Art is Jazz – An interesting site from Australia
Jazz Lives – An interesting jazz blog with lots of links (“Lives” is both a noun and a verb)
Where to find jazz activities in other areas, especially NYC
A guide to the Roaring Twenties, with jazz and ragtime links. (Suggested by 11-yr-old 6th-grader Mia Reynolds)
Musical Playground for Kids: The History of Jazz Music (Suggested by Katie Neale, a young trumpet player)
The site for info about music education, especially the Ed.D. degree.
What is Jazz Music? With 7 Top Examples and Jazz History Suggested by Shaun Letang, Owner of MusicIndustryHowTo.org
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Jazz festivals
Festivals in the Northeast
A link to find Jazz festivals around the world
And a link for all sorts of festivals
Selected Bands & Living musicians (mostly local)
Dead musicians
Oscar Aleman (The Argentinean guitarist you never heard of)
Louis Armstrong Bio #1 Bio #2 Bio #3
Bix Beiderbecke
Nick Brignola
The Dukes of Dixieland
Ella Fitzgerald
Gene Krupa
“Jelly Roll” Morton
Lee Shaw
Fats Waller
Bios of deceased musicians
Places to buy Jazz stuff
The Jazz Store
Jazz Heritage Society
ejazzlines
Dixieland Jazz Mail List
Jazzman Records
Jazzbeat.org Jazz education material, jazz lessons, jazz CD’s and DVD’s, and jazz related merchandise
Jazz Humor
Swing Era & modern colloquialisms
Music Jokes
More music jokes
And yet more…
Organizations & Publications
Jazz Radio Stations with streaming music – where to hear Jazz on-line
WAMC
KLON
KAZU
OKOM (Our Kind Of Music)
WBGO
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
Local links and Miscellaneous
Swingtime Jazz Society
albanyjazz.com
Albany Jazz Co-operative
Jazz/Latino, Inc
Capital District Jazz, Ltd
Anderson Fake Books
Jazz Clubs around the World
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.
