A History of Jazz
Provides information about jazz history with links to jazz clubs and festivals. Also includes a gallery of jazz posters.
A Passion for Jazz
History of styles and musicians with timeline, glossary, photos, festivals, teacher locator, and shopping for fakebooks and instruction books.
All About Jazz: History of Jazz Timeline
Important jazz facts from 1895 to the present.
All That Jazz
The history of jazz starting from the late 1800's.
America's Jazz Heritage
A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.
Chicago Jazz Archive
Significant collection founded in 1976 at the University of Chicago including early recordings, sheet music, photos and piano rolls, much of which is accessible online.
Club Kaycee
A sound-and-sight archive from the library of the Kansas City campus of the University of Missouri.
Great Day in Harlem
Click on Art Kane's August 1958 photograph of 57 jazz musicians for names of those pictured, or browse by timeline, instrument, or style. Link to the Jean Bach documentary of the shoot, online sales of the photo originally published in Esquire magazine.
Heptune: Lorenz-Pulte Jazz Page
Fan site profiling Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fats Waller, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Lil Johnson.
Historian Max Morath on Popular Music Standards
Musician and historian Max Morath discusses American popular music standards with Jerry Jazz Musician. Pictures, sound files, text.
History of Jazz Trombone
Past history, musical samples, and transcriptions demonstrate that trombonists' contributions have had a crucial role in the development of the jazz language during the 20th century.
History of Verve Records
Traces development from the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts of the 1940s to the label's founding by Norman Granz in 1956 and the coalition formed with labels such as GRP and Blue Thumb in the 1990s. Artists listed, audio versions of pages.
Jazz Connections - Your Interactive Guide to 50 Greats
Fascinating facts on who played with whom, when, where and why.
Jazz musical history and references
Chronicles what jazz is, and details a history of jazz from the turn of the 20th century until the present.
Jazz Roots
Tom Morgan offers lavishly illustrated profiles of early 20th century performers along with links to books, a timeline from 1800 to 1930, and images of early sheet music including a year-by-year collection of Cotton Club Parades.
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