All About Jazz

AAJ prides itself for being a site produced by jazz fans for jazz fans. Their mission is to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future.  Through a “Global Jazz” section, reviews of jazz from around the world, and interviews with international musicians, AAJ covers the music via four continents, including ten U.S. metropolises.

All Music

Originally known as All Music Guide, AMG was founded in 1991 to help consumers navigate the increasingly complex world of recorded music and discover the very best recordings. Editorial independence has always been an AMG hallmark along with being a respected and trusted voice in music content and criticism. Beyond just jazz, all genres and styles of music are covered here, ranging from the most commercially popular to the most obscure.

Amazon

Shop a multitude of jazz CDs at discounted prices courtesy of a popular music merchandiser. For those yearning a literary jazzbeat, over 7,000 book titles are searchable.

American Jazz Institute

AJI is a non-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and enhancement of the appreciation of jazz music.  AJI seeks to preserve jazz as a national treasure, as well as project a spotlight on America's great jazz composers, arrangers and musicians - both firmly established and newly discovered, from traditional to avant garde.

Barnes & Noble

Though Barnes & Noble is touted as the world's largest online bookseller, their jazz CD lists and prices demands attention. Choose any jazz style (bop, cool, Latin, vocal, fusion, swing, free, many others) or a best seller, even a  new/forthcoming CD release or a box set. A user-friendly jazz book title search, ranked by subject, can be found in the B&N Book Browser by clicking here.

Bebop Shop

When it comes to everything recorded bop, this is the place.  Your specialist for bebop, hardbop and modern jazz recordings.  An extensive online catalog is also available and secure shopping by cart is a breeze.

CD Universe

Another prized place to search, buy jazz recordings sorted by best seller lists (top seller, future releases, recent releases, just announced) and assorted genre categories, such as vocal, big band, live performances, traditional, many others.  Jazz posters also available.

Chicago Jazz

A lively connection to the vibrant Chicago jazz scene.  Explore musician biographies, jazz links, club and restaurant listings, a jazz calendar, and Chicago Jazz magazine.  The Chicago Reader Guide to Jazz keeps weekly tabs on upcoming jazz concerts and a healthy mix of jazz club headliners.

Chicago Jazz Archive

A special collection of rare jazz materials located at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. The CJA's mission is to support research by scholars trained to work with rare and fragile materials -- manuscripts, research notes, brittle photographs, handwritten music, and recordings in obscure formats. Established in 1976, the Archive documents the birth of "Chicago style" jazz from the late 1910s through the 1920s. The Archive supports the research and instructional mission of the University in music, history, anthropology, and sociology, and provides reference services to academic researchers all over the world via its Web site, electronic and standard mail, telephone, and research visits.

Coda Magazine

Since 1958 the distinguished jazz monthly from Canada is widely respected for a rich tradition of great pictures and insightful interviews.

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies

The epicenter of the Columbia University jazz world with details on jazz events, news, concerts, course listings, faculty and educational resources.

Downbeat

The pre-eminent jazz monthly, it remains a true collector's item for all jazz fans.  In the 1930s, before any important book on jazz had yet been written, Down Beat collected the first important body of pre-1935 jazz history.  During 1935 and 1936 Down Beat took a sharp turn from being a parochial little news and gossip sheet to becoming a credible national publication with a solid musician orientation and a particularly keen ear for jazz.  The redoubtable Downbeat Blindfold Test has for years remained one of the most famous columns in the jazz community.

Duke Ellington

The legacy of Sir Duke carries forth with a strong educational slant aimed at middle-school teachers and students.  The site showcases a grand collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, and the Music Educators National Conference.

eJazzNews

A leading jazz newswire providing jazz-related news, articles, events, forums, reviews, profiles, education, festival info, canadian jazz festivals, jazz topics, music business info, obituaries, technology news, jazz charts, club listings, event calendars, interviews, and music classifieds.

Institute of Jazz Studies - Rutgers University

Housed at the State University of New Jersey (Newark), the famed jazz repository serves jazz connoisseurs as the largest archive of jazz and jazz related materials in the world. Its mammoth collection includes: Over 100 distinct ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS comprising personal papers as well as archives of record companies and jazz-related institutions and organizations spanning from 1920 to the present; over 100,000 commercial and non-commercial SOUND RECORDINGS consisting of 78 rpm discs, 45 rpm singles and extended-play (EP) discs, 10-inch and 12-inch LP's, and CD's. The collection spans all eras of jazz and includes blues, ragtime, and other jazz-related and jazz-influenced music.  The collection also includes:  More than 30,000 PHOTOGRAPHS taken over nine decades; A collection of ORAL HISTORY MATERIALS, most notably the Jazz Oral History Project of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); some 6,000 BOOKS including practically every book published on jazz, including rare early works; the most comprehensive collection of jazz PERIODICALS due in no small part to the acquisition of the Harold Flakser Collection; and lastly, RESEARCH FILES including clippings from newspapers and general interest publications, press releases and publicity materials, and correspondence.

Jamey Aebersold Jazz

JAJ publishes and sells the world's most complete selection of jazz education materials.  As a brand name for nearly 40 years, Jamey Aebersold has been literally synonymous with the very best in jazz education materials. This world-class performer and teacher-lecturer has traveled the globe giving seminars and workshops. Aebersold's lifelong mission is to teach people how to play jazz and improvise. Visitor's can also request a complete catalog featuring almost 2,000 hand-picked items.

Jazz at Lincoln Center

JALC is the Big Apple's renowned not-for-profit, performing arts organization devoted to jazz through education, performance, and special event broadcasts.  It boasts the very visible Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and a comprehensive array of guest artists, including artistic director Wynton Marsalis.  JALC productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops.  In October 2004 JALC welcomed the inaugural season for the new Frederick P. Rose Hall, a 100,00-square-foot, multi-room structure hailed as the world's first performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted solely to jazz.

Jazz Corner

Founded by Lois Gilbert in 1996, it's fast becoming the best and most accessible artist web portal out there. JC aims to level the playing the field for jazz musicians and organizations. It hosts complete jazz websites for more than 180 top jazz musicians, services/organizations, and record companies, as well as jazz news.  Complete Web sites for more than 150 independent musicians, plus the leading jazz speakeasy online, classic interviews, a comprehensive global jazz calendar, photos, reviews, and much more.

Jazz Improv Magazine

Enjoy a robust 160-200 page quarterly publication targeted to jazz enthusiasts, educators and musicians, featuring music, book excerpts, "how-to" articles and a companion CD.

Jazz in America

In order to provide an ongoing education about jazz for our nation's students, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz developed "Jazz in America", a new internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes in the United States offered as part of the Institute's "Jazz in the Classroom" series.  It's the first jazz curriculum to use current internet technology offered free on a national basis. It also represents the most significant and potentially wide-reaching jazz/social studies education program ever undertaken by an arts organization.

Jazz Institute of Chicago

A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of jazz music in Chicago.  JIC also promotes and programs the annual Chicago Jazz Festival, plus various program initiatives for educators and presenters.

JAZZIZ Magazine

For 20 years JAZZIZ has covered the jazz world documenting musical innovations, charting industry trends, hanging with jazz artists. JAZZIZ reports on what's hot (and what's not) thanks to insightful editorials, hundreds of CD reviews, and inspired photography and design.  JAZZIZ also produces JAZZIZ ON DISC, a beautifully packaged CD filled with classic, new and exclusive recordings not available anywhere else.

Jazz Journalists Association

The online zine of the Jazz Journalists Association, based in New York City.  Articles, photos, reviews, discussions on all aspects of jazz contributed by members of the JJA.  Each year the JJA bestows awards to individual members and industry professionals who have immeasurably contributed to the enrichment of quality jazz journalism.

Jazz Online

A healthy jazz clearinghouse for jazz CD reviews, FAQs, video interviews, bulletin boards, audio and video clips, artist interviews, and jazz archives.

Jazz Review

A weekly glance at a potpourri of hot, new jazz releases, jazz news/PR items and industry announcements.

Jazz Store

The definitive source for jazz and blues videos, CDs, posters, apparel, books, hard-to-find jazz collectibles and more for all lovers of jazz.

JazzTimes

JazzTimes magazine offers a bold, colorful insight each month into the jazz industry incorporating exclusive cover photography and state of the art graphic design.  It continues to receive accolades as the world's leading jazz publication thanks to extensive news coverage, award-winning jazz writers, CD-video-book reviews, informative features and columns.

NPR Jazz

National Public Radio's inviting jazz media site features NPR jazz programs, reviews, interviews, a basic jazz library archive, and a streaming NPR radio station list.

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns

The companion PBS television Web site to the acclaimed production by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns celebrates America's greatest original art form with a jubilant soundtrack, archival performance footage, poignant anecdotes, and moving, reflective historical passages supplied by noted jazz celebrities, personalities.

Red Hot Jazz Archive

An historical record examining jazz pre-1930. You'll find over 1,000 tunes penned during this era captured in Real Audio 3 format.  Also, hundreds of biographies and discographies of jazz musicians.

Smithsonian Jazz

Smithsonian Jazz is a remarkable jazz portal intended to preserve and promote jazz, jazz history and jazz performance through the Smithsonian Institution, including information on jazz exhibits, events, and concerts. The Smithsonian 'Jazz Class' presents bio content on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter.  And, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks (SMJO) Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Appreciation Month, and the SJMO Jazz Education are major site features.

Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz

TMIJ offers the world's most promising young musicians college-level training by America's jazz masters and presents public school-based jazz education programs for young people around the world.  TMIJ is a non-profit education organization, founded in 1986 by the Monk family along with the late Maria Fisher, an opera singer and lifelong devotee of music. Its high-profile programs include: Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum, Jazz In The Classroom, Jazz Sports, plus other international programs and televised performance specials.