Web Resources for
Jazz History


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The Red Hot Jazz Archive   A history of jazz before 1930, with biographies of musicians, video clips, and sound clips.
Jazz Roots   Links to various aspects of Jazz History.
Ken Burns Jazz on PBS  Check out the various links on this site. In the menu there is a Jazz Links connection.
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem  Click on the links in the left-hand menu for more information - particularly the Photo Gallery and the Videos
Smithsonian Jazz The Smithsonian Institution'ss page on jazz history and events.
The Jazz Web from WNUR   A page of links from Northwestern University. Check out the Jazz Styles link for a chart of the development of jazz.
A Passion for Jazz    Music commentary, history, and education
All That Jazz   A student-created web site on the history of jazz
The Jazz Hall of Fame  
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz   The William P. Gottlieb Collection of more than 1600 photographs of jazz artists from 1938 to 1948.
Jazz Links from the University of Texas  A page of links on jazz history and people. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
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