History of Jazz Links

• A Passion for Jazz! - Music commentary, history and education including photo gallery, festivals, music teacher locator, virtual piano chords and Jazz MIDI files archive.   http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

• America's Jazz Heritage - A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. Audio and video of jazz performances.  http://www.si.edu/resource/tours/ajazzh/

• Chicago Jazz Archive - Lots of jazz links, with information and resources for jazz research.  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

• Cootie's Jazz - The story of jazz told through its 101 most representative records, with detailed commentaries, and user feedback.  http://www.cootiesjazz.com/

• History of Jazz Music - A history of Jazz covering many styles, from Ragtime to Neo-classic. Also, biographies of artists, band histories, sound-clips, links, and photos.  http://www.jazzhistory.f2s.com/

• Hot Jazz Site - A brief history of early New Orleans jazz, musician biographies, and audio links. http://www.edsite2.fsnet.co.uk/

• Jazz Roots - Roots of Jazz web site designed by the award winning music author, Tom Morgan. Lavishly illustrated, Jazz Roots features profiles of many pre-jazz African American songsters. http://www.jass.com/

• Smithsonian Jazz offers sound clips, information about jazz events, a directory of jazz societies (by state and country), links to other jazz websites, and four online "classes" featuring Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter.
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• Jazz: You Like It - This site has many useful articles on Jazz History, and the people who have made Jazz what it is today. The site is very informative about the linking of Jazz and Blues music history. http://afgen.com/jazlinks.html

• Music and You Jazz History - This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz  http://musicandyou.com/musichistory.htm

• New Orleans Music and Music History - Site contains topics on, The Origins of Jazz, Jazz in New Orleans, Second Line, and The New Orleans Jazz Century. Also good articles about, Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong.  http://www.neworleansonline.com/music/contents.shtml

• Chicago Public Radio  - Beyond hosting hours of great jazz, Chicago Public Radio also airs interviews with jazz artists and experts.
  www.chicagopublicradio.org/programs/jazz/jazz_interviews.asp

• Dr. Billy Taylor, a Conversation on Jazz presents excerpts from four lectures by this noted jazz pianist, historian, and educator. Taylor discusses jazz from its roots in the African-American slavery experience, through the early days of ragtime, and onward through swing, bop, and progressive jazz.  Excerpts can be sorted by artist or jazz style. They're organized around questions: Where was jazz born? How did swing become bebop? How is bebop influencing today's jazz artists? (ArtsEdge, supported by Department of Education)
  http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3295/

• Jazz, A Film by Ken Burns is the companion website to the PBS series that aired in January 2001. Hear excerpts of bebop, cool jazz and other styles. Discover what makes jazz "jazz." Explore clubs where jazz developed. See biographies of nearly 100 musicians, interview transcripts, a "virtual piano," lessons, and a study guide. (WETA, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)
  http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

• Drop Me Off in Harlem is a multimedia exploration of the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s).  Listen to Duke Ellington’s orchestra.  Hear Langston Hughes read his poems.  Watch “Shorty” Snowden dance the Lindy Hop. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/faces/webb_text.html