| 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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| The Jazz Archive - Jazz archive, photos, and vintage records are displayed. A historic jazz calendar is included.
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| America's Jazz Heritage - A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.
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| Jazz, Hot and Cold - Essay by librettist Arnold Sundgaard on jazz history as originally published June, 1955 in the Atlantic Monthly.
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| What is Jazz? - Four lectures on jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor.
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| A Passion for Jazz! - History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring timeline, glossary, photos, festivals, webcasts, guitar & piano chords, scales & online lessons.
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| Hot Jazz Site - A brief history of early New Orleans jazz, musician biographies, and audio links.
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| Music and You Jazz History - This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz
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| African Genesis: Jazz Links - Articles from 1930s publications as well as modern essays and many links to artist biographies with photos.
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| The Clarinet In Jazz Since 1945 - Biographical and discographical information on a long list of notable jazz clarinetists, including links to other sites.
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| The Jazz Files - Guide to musicians who made great jazz in the 1950s including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderly. Biographical articles with photos, discographies, and links.
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| Red Hot Jazz Archive - A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography.
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| Smithsonian Jazz - The National Museum of American History offers audio, video and text; oral histories, artists, videos, portraits and concert program notes.
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| Kansas City Jazz - Loose collection of pages devoted to Count Basie, Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, and Bennie Moten, with a page for the modern Basie band under Grover Mitchell. Photos, link to ring.
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| The Real Godfathers of Punk - E-zine article by Billy Bob Hargus connecting jazz artists auch as Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman with the roots of punk music. Links, photographs.
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| 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.
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| Club Kaycee - A sound-and-sight archive from the library of the Kansas City campus of the University of Missouri.
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| Trombones in Harlem - Explore a famous Art Kane photograph to learn more about jazz trombonists Lawrence Brown, Vic Dickenson, Tyree Glenn, Jay C. Higginbotham, Miff Mole, and Dicky Wells.
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| All That Jazz - The history of jazz starting from the late 1800's.
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| Swing Music Net - The history of swing music from the 1930's until today.
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| 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.
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| Jazz Connections - Your Interactive Guide to 50 Greats - Fascinating facts on who played with whom, when, where and why.
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| The History of Jazz Music - The history of jazz from the beginning to the present day.
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| Modern Jazz Discography - Catalog of recordings released by Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside Records, sorted by musician, label and date. Session indexes, biographical notes, links.
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| University of Kansas Jazz Archive - The Richard M. Wright Jazz Archive of jazz recordings including the private collection of bandleader, Loring "Red" Nichols.
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| 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.
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| Verve Music Group: Jazz History - Concise guide to various jazz styles and the artists and recordings associated with each style, edited by Dr. David Schroeder of New York University.
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| Mars Club of Paris - Internationally known jazz club where many Americans gathered to play in the 1950s. Features photograph of a door inscribed with the names of musicians who appeared at the club, and memories of Billy Strayhorn.
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| Jimmy Rushing's Hot Spot - The life and music of the blues shouter are outlined in anecdotes, discography and a lengthy 1963 interview taken from the Stanley Dance book, "The World of Count Basie." Photos and links.
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| 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.
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| Small Jazz History - Features a history of jazz origins, styles, including retro photo.
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| A History of Jazz - Provides information about jazz history with links to jazz clubs and festivals. Also includes a gallery of jazz posters.
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| All About Jazz: History of Jazz Timeline - Important jazz facts from 1895 to the present.
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| The Hard Bop - Music and the musicians of the jazz style of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photos.
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| Jazz Hall of Fame - A searchable database containing 1000+ jazz artists spanning the history of jazz
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| The Norwegian Jazz Base - A history of jazz in Norway.
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| 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.
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