52nd Street Jazz
Reviews, discussions, and news about the world of jazz.
jazzmatazz
Maintained by Alan Lankin, with a nice section on Upcoming CDs.
Michael Fitzgerald's Jazz Research Pages
A good resource with links to discographies, labels, etc.
The Modern Jazz Discography
The big three labels of hard bop (Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside Records), Miles Davis' personal connections, and more.
Gallery 41
With interviews, sound clips, etc. Current and recent jazz figures.
Great Day in Harlem
A nicely arranged introduction to jazz, based on the famous 1958 Art Kane photograph.
The Hard Bop Homepage
Maintained by Eric B. Olsen, with nice accounts of the music and artists.
Institute of Jazz Studies
Located at Rutgers University, an excellent resource.
Jazzprojekte
Maintained by Dr. Michael Frohne, with discographies, reviews, etc.
Jazz After Hours
Based on Jim Wilke's PRI program.
Jazz and Blues Masters
Jeff Sedlick's site with info on Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and B.B. King.
Jazz Corner
"Jazz Corner is unifying the Jazz Community in cyberspace with more than 70 individual websites for jazz musicians and organizations."
The Jazz Files
Maintained by Gijs Elsen, devoted to jazz musicians of the 1950s and 1960s.
Jazz FM
Jazz FM RealAudio programming.
Jazz Improvisation
The entry point for Joan Wildman's courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with pointers to other jazz sites.
Jazz Institute of Chicago
Home of the Chicago Jazz Festival and much else including reviews, links, etc.
Jazz Montréal
Courtesy of the Association de jazz de Montréal, with concert information, discographies, etc.
The Jazz Pages
By Frank Schindelbeck, in German and English. A good starting point for jazz browsing. New addition: Jazzphotography of Karlheinz Klüter.
A Page to Walk about Jazz in the 50s
An excellent resource with artist links, labels, etc. (Mostly in Japanese.)
Jazz Players Forum (in Japanese)
A good discographical resource, with cover art, etc.
JazzSteps.com
"The source for jazz music, history, and scene information."
http://muslinks.com/jazz/
The jazz pages at MusLinks. With musicians' pages and other links.
Jerry Jazz Musician: Bringing you the goods on the greats
Part magazine, part catalog -- a nice celebration of jazz in the 1950s.
Kansas City Jazz Age
"This is where you will learn about the rich jazz history of Kansas City (1925-1941)."
Morrice's Jazz Review
Maintained by Morrice Blackwell, with reviews, a few links, etc.
Noal Cohen's Jazz History Web Site
Maintained by Noal Cohen, with nice discographies of Teddy Charles, Elmo Hope, and Tiny Kahn.
A Passion for Jazz
Maintained by D C DowDell MMC, pianist, composer, and music educator, with educational resources, etc.
Record Reviews
David Bertrand Wilson and John Alroy's excellent site, with hundreds of reviews of jazz and rock LPs and CDs.
RECDB home page
Searchable database of recordings and musicians.
RoJaC - Robert's Jazz Corner
Maintained by Robert Stubenrauch, with excellent discographies, photo gallery, etc.
Karl-Michael Schneider's Music Links
A good starting point for discographical information -- very comprehensive and nicely laid out.
Uncle Larry's Crazeology
The home page of a jazz show from WORT-FM in Madison, WI. Lots of playlists, jazz birthdays, etc.
What is Jazz?
Billy Taylor's informative website.
All About Jazz
From Stephanie Harris
Blue Note Live
The website for the New York club, with booking schedule, profiles, etc.
Bebop Radio: 100% Jazz Vocals!
Do you like jazz vocals?
Musicians (80 items)
The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-Vous
Maintained by Gilles Miton, with discographies, solo transcriptions, pictures, etc.
Art Ensemble of Chicago Discography
Maintained by Jack Lefton, with information on most commercially available AEC recordings.
Joshua Bayer
Website of the Washington DC Jazz bassist, guitarist, and composer. With links to CDs, clinics, gig schedule, etc.
Bengt Berger
Bengt Berger's website, with dicography, touring information. etc.
Paul Bley
From Improvising Artists, with biography, discography, etc.
ReStructures.Net
Maintained by Jason Guthartz, with Anthony Braxton discography, index of titles and recordings, etc.
Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation
With discography, concert schedule, etc.
Bob Brookmeyer
The "official" Brookmeyer site, with projects, recordings, etc.
Peter Brötzmann Discography
An online version of the limited-edition printed discography of Brötzmann's recordings from 1966 to the present.
Dave Brubeck
Maintained by Malcolm Wallace, with discography, photos, touring schedule, etc.
ABO - Anatholi Bulkin Online
Website for the Swedish guitarist, with photos, sound clips, etc.
Gary Burton
The "official" Burton website, with current projects, tour information, etc.
Benny Carter
Maintained by Laurence and Edward Berger; nicely organized with pictures, discographical information, etc.
Solo Flight: The Charlie Christian Website
Maintained by Leo Valdes, with complete discography, transcriptions, photo gallery, bibliographies, etc.
Dave Wild's WildPlace
Maintained by a noted authority on John Coltrane, with Coltrane discography, links, etc.
John Coltrane: L'amour Suprême
Maintained by Lenny Bocina, with discography, photos, etc.
Jan Lohmann's Miles Davis Page
Maintained by Jan Lohmann, author of the excellent discography, The Sound of Miles Davis (Copenhagen, 1992).
Paul Desmond
Maintained by Paul Caulfield, with discography, etc.
The Bill Evans Web Pages
Maintained by Jan Stevens, with reviews, interviews, links, etc.
Gil Evans
Courtesy of Le maison du jazz; with a discography, photos, index of compositions, etc.
Bill Frisell discography
Maintained by Bryan Aaker, with links, cover art, etc.
The Lars Gullin Society
Maintained by Pär Rittsel, a nice site with CD discography, links, etc.
Gunter Hampel Music
Hampel's website with links to Birth Records, biography, etc.
Joe Henderson Discography
Maintained by Jeff Timbs, with some Henderson links, etc.
Andrew Hill discography
Maintained by Marcel Safier.
Billie Holiday
A good site devoted to Lady Day, with discography, pictures, and other links; the work of P.R. De Mooy (aka ecduzit).
Billie Holiday
Another Holiday site, maintained by Alberto Varela, with a database of recordings and sessions, etc.
Dave Holland
Maintained by Dave Holland, with biography, discography, tour schedules, etc.
AltSax/Noah Howard
Noah Howard's label and discography.
Ken Hyder
The "official" Hyder website, with tour information, current projects, discography, etc.
The Ultimate Keith Jarrett Discography
Maintained by Mirko Caserta, in several formats.
Abdullah Ibrahim's Mantra Modes
A site devoted to the thoughts and work of Abdullah Ibrahim (a.k.a. Dollar Brand).
Ronald Shannon Jackson
With discography, news, etc.
J.J. Johnson
The "official" Johnson website, with biography, discography, etc.
Nick Kepics
The Yorktown VA guitarist's page, with biography, shows, etc.
Steve Lacy Senators
"Senators' aim is to promote jazz saxophonist and composer Steve Lacy's music among musicians and connoisseurs."
Warne Marsh Information Pool
Maintained by Michael Frohne, with help from others, with a discography, bibliography, etc.
Charles Mingus
The "official" Charles Mingus site, with discography, writings, etc.
Charles Mingus
Esa Onttonen's fine website with discography, biography, links to related sites, etc.
Mitchell Music Management
Diane Mitchell's site dedicated to the music of her husband, Red Mitchell.
Hank Mobley
Maintained by Aric Effron, with a nice discography with record covers, sound clips, etc.
Thelonious Monk
A Monk website, the work of Howard Mansfield. With discography, links to other resources, etc.
Barbara Montgomery
The official Barbara Montgomery site, with discography, performances, links, etc.
David Murray
Maintained by Marcel Safier.
Nostalgia: Honoring Fats Navarro
A good site maintained by Stuart A. Varden, with reviews, sound clips, and a fine discography.
Oregon
A nice tribute to Oregon and the individual musicians Paul McCandless, Ralph Towner, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott.
TSUJI-Bird Land
The Charlie Parker Society of Japan (in Japanese and English).
Chasin' the Bird
Maintained by Yoichi, with links, discussion, etc. In Japanese and English.
Jaco Pastorius Live Discography
Maintained by Len Pogost, with indexes of sidemen, titles, etc.
Roy Powell
International keyboardist and composer, with biography, discography, links, etc.
Sam Rivers Sessionography
Maintained by Rick Lopez, with links to other Rivers sites, etc. on another page, Riversteppingstones.
If Mountains Could Sing: Terje Rypdal
A good tribute site maintained by Jeff Gower -- lots of discographical information, pictures, news, etc.
Max Schultz
Website of the Swedish guitarist, maintained by Pelle Piano.
Archie Shepp
With biography, fan club information, a rudimentary list of recordings, etc.
Horace Silver Discography
Maintained by Eric B. Olsen as part of The Hard Bop Homepage.
Frank Sinatra
A tribute to Frank Sinatra. Nice use of Java, etc.
Fredy Studer
The "official" Studer website, with discography, current projects, etc.
SoundInsights
Maintained by Doug Payne, with material on Lalo Schifrin, Oliver Nelson, Shirley Scott, Gabor Szabo, and others.
Lennie Tristano discography
Another excellent discography maintained by Stephen Miner.
Vienna Art Orchestra
The "official" VAO website, with discography, tour schedule, artist biographies, etc.
Barney Wilen Discography
Maintained by Jud Warren, with disography, biography, videos, etc.
Mike and Kate Westbrook
The "official" Westbrook site, with discography, links, etc.
Soul on Soul: Mary Lou Williams
A terrific site at the Rutgers University Institute for Jazz Studies. With audio, photographs, discography, etc.
The Incredible Kai Winding
The "official" Kai Winding website, maintained by B.J. Major, with discography, etc.
Reggie Workman's BassScanz
"Bringing you links to bass players, other bass related sites, and jazz music in all of its many styles (Big Band! Bop! Post-Bop! Straight-Ahead! Free! & Hip-Hop)- to the internet community."
European Resources (38 items)
Afribeat
A good route into the African jazz scene, present and past. (Yes, I know, it isn't European.)
Chipin & Kaiya's Chinese Jazz Website
Maintained by Chi-pin Hsieh and Kai-ya Chang, with biographies, etc. Mostly in Chinese. (Yes, another non-European resource. Time to start another category.)
Warta Jazz
"An Ultimate Source for Indonesian Jazz Lovers."
PuroJazz EnVivo
The online version of the PuroJazz show which airs Sunday nights on Radio Beethoven, 96.5 FM in Chile.
Jazz 9000
"Profiles on internationally and locally acclaimed jazz musicians, a weekly updated European jazz agenda, weekly CD and concert reviews on both local and international artists, recommended jazz joints etc. But also a database and its search engine to find information on your favourite jazz artists, and a large forum to leave all your comments." For users of Microsoft Internet Explorer only.
European Jazz Network
A good starting point for exploring European jazz resources.
European Free Improvisation
Peter Stubley's website with pointers to resources concerned with free improvisation from Europe.
Jazz in Salzburg
"The official home page of the 'jazzclub life' in Salzburg, Austria." With links to musicians, clubs, etc.
Innenhofkultur
The website of a non-profit cultural association created in 1983; sponsoring outdoor concerts, etc. (In German.)
Jazz online
The home page of Süddeutscher Rundfunk, with RealAudio broadcasts and many links. (In German.)
Montreux Sounds
The Montreux Jazz Festival concerts database, searchable via Excite.
Jazz Schule Luzern
With a study guide, faculty list, links, etc.
Moers New Jazz Festival
The "official" website of the Moers Festival, with history, schedules, etc.
Jazz Information Service
Maintained by Dr. Michael Frohne, with discographies, tour and festival schedules, etc.
Jazz In Belgium
The Web Site of LES LUNDIS D'HORTENSE, the Belgian association of jazz musicians. All about the Belgian jazz scene and its musicians.
Café Damberd
"In a pluralist atmosphere of tolerance and respect we'd like to get you drunk and hope to be pleasant company... Café Damberd, a bar to have an intimate conversation, while listening to jazzmusic, and where musicians and public of all nations get together."
Willem Breuker Kollektief
The website for the Netherlands' best big band, with links to BVHaast discography, etc.
Dutch Jazz
Ed Boekee's website with pointers to resources concerned with the Dutch jazz scene.
Jazz Market
A Dutch site with lots of links to jazz sites on the web.
Due Laghi Jazz Festival
Maintained by Fulvio Albano, the website for a yearly festival in Avigliana, Turin.
Dansk Musik
Maintained by Bjarne Gren, a good starting point for exploring the Danish jazz scene. (In Danish.)
Musiknet.dk
Another good entry point to the Danish scene.
Jazz Fyn
An organization in Odense, Denmark that sponsors jazz concerts a year. (In Danish and English.)
'Round About Jazz
Maintained by Jø Mathiasen, with news and links to other Scandinavian jazz sites.
SwedeJazz
The website of the Swedish Jazz Federation, with news, information on clubs and festivals, etc.
Swedish JazzWeb
A good starting point for exploring the Swedish jazz scene. Partly in Swedish.
Great Jazz Club, Linkoping
With schedule, festival information, links, etc. In Swedish.
Jazz Scene with David Fishel
The website for the weekly Norwegian radio show Jazz Scene. Listen to the shows via RealAudio®.
Norwegian Music Information Centre
A good starting point for exploring the Norwegian jazz scene.
hertsi.com
Maintained by Ville Sahlakari. A terrific entry point into the Finnish jazz scene -- with a good discography of Finnish jazz in the 1970s, links, etc.
Jazz Action
The Jazz Development Agency for Northern Arts and Yorkshire Arts, maintained by Adrian Tilbrook.
Jazz Services
This group "promote[s] the growth and development of jazz within the UK."
Jazz in Scotland
The work of Ian Millar and Dominic Spencer, with monthly features, tour schedules, festival information, etc.
Havana Swing
A Scotland-based quintet who specialise in the music of Django Reinhardt of the Hot Club de France, Latin and originals.
Jazz in France
A good starting point for exploring the French jazz scene. Available in French and English.
La Maison du jazz
Laurent Cugny's terrific site with concert schedule, conferences, photos, etc.
ERA JAZZU
"The most important and prestige jazz project in Poland. Jazz Forum, the leading european jazz magazine, provides ERA JAZZU such the top and most creating jazz event in Poland." English and Polish.
Online Sources (32 items)
Acoustic Sounds, Inc.
A good source of new and used high-quality vinyl.
Angels
A Danish site specializing in jazz and improvised music. Nice interface and search functions.
Bare Jazz Nettnytt (Bare Jazz NetNews)
A good source of news and a searchable CD shop as well.
The Bebop Shop
"The online record shop for bebop, hard bop, and modern jazz."
Berigan's Jazz Store
The online version of Oakland's Berigan's Jazz Records, specializing in collector vinyl, etc.
Birka Jazz
Maintained by Torbjörn Sörhuus -- a Swedish shop specializing in jazz of all kinds.
Cadence Magazine and Records
A good source of non-mainstream jazz and improvised music.
Cheap or What! CDs
A U.K. shop with searchable catalog. New and used records and CDs.
Concert Posters
A good resource if you're looking for posters or other memorabilia; jazz, rock, etc.
Cosmic Sounds
A record label and used LP shop, maintained by Zeljko Kerleta. A good source of hard-to-find eastern European recordings.
Disc 'n' Tape
A U.K. site with CDs, vinyl, etc. Not very responsive.
Dusty Groove ® America
Soul, Funk, Jazz, etc.; and check out the upcoming releases page.
ejazzlines.com
Jazz specialists, with CDs, video, books, sheet music, etc.
Forced Exposure
A good source on non-mainstream jazz and "new music."
HMV Japan
A good place to search for available CDs. (In Japanese.)
Jazz Loft
A good source of independent-label jazz recordings.
Jazz Record Mart
The largest jazz and blues record shop in the world, online.
LP Now: Out of Print Vinyl
A nice site -- but look for jazz together with "Easy Listening" (!).
Midheaven Mailorder
A division of Revolver USA Distribution: independent label compact discs, vinyl, cassettes, 7" singles, magazines, etc.
Mosaic Records
The place to go for complete set reissues of your favorite jazz musicians. Here's their catalog.
Music and Record Stores
A nice alphabetical list of links to online sources, courtesy of MusicSearch.
Psycho-Path records
Psychedelic, Progressive, Jazz, Experimental music. LPs and CDs.
Rare Grooves
Used records from the 1970s and 1980s.
Red Trumpet Quality Vinyl and CD Outlet
A good-sized catalog of new, used, and rare vinyl and CDs. Very nice interface.
Earth Wave Records
Used records; searchable listings; all genres.
Verge Music Distribution
A Canadian site presenting "the real alternative music culture."
JPC: Musik à la carte
A German site; they have a nice search engine for their online catalog.
Le Site de la FNAC
A French site with music, books, CD-ROMs, video, etc.
Novalis: Toute la culture en direct
A French site with music, video, books, etc.
Sound Source
A excellent source for Japanese CDs, magazines, etc.
Tower Records
Some web-only specials, plus a searchable catalog.
For Collectors (8 items)
Album Discographies from Both Sides Now
Another excellent resource, maintained by Mike Callahan and David Edwards.
Classic Records
High-quality reissues of classic LPs (jazz and classical).
Goldmine Online
"The collectors records and compact disc marketplace."
Jazz Collector
A German site with nice online lists, available in HTML, MS-Word, or MS-Excel formats.
Record Research
The website for Joel Whitburn's Record Research books, with links, etc.
The Record Collectors Guild
A club for vinyl enthusiasts, with sales, want lists, etc.
Vinyl Web Stop
Assembled by Geir Høydalsvik, a good list of sources of vinyl records. This site is in the USA.
Record/CD Labels (32 items)
Jazz CD Buying Guide
Maintained by Anderson and Berkeley.
Arkadia Records
Home of Dave Liebman, Benny Golson, Kenny Drew, and others.
Art of Life Records
An independent label formed in October 2000 "with the purpose of providing jazz artists an alternative outlet for releasing their music."
Blue Note Records
Official website of the premier jazz label of the 50s and 60s; with sound clips, new release and reissue information, biographies, etc.
Boheme Music International
A label specializing in "European jazz, jazz-rock, progressive and world music including jazz from Russia."
Candid Records
The official website of the 1960s label, now with many CD reissues.
Cryptogramophone Records
"Cryptogramophone...present[s] artists who are not afraid to make their music challenging or beautiful as they explore the far reaches of artistic vision and instrumental technique."
Delmark Records
The Chicago-based jazz and blues label, with online catalog, etc.
Dragon Records
A Swedish label with an excellent catalog of historic and contemporary recordings.
ECM Records
An extensive site (occasionally updated) with online ordering, etc.
ECM Records List
Karl-Michael Schneider's list of ECM, Japo, Watt, Carmo, etc. titles.
Another ECM Records List
Maintained by Paul Geffen, with information on all ECM labels.
Emanem Records
Maintained by Martin Davidson himself, with discography, etc.
Enja Records Matthias Winckelmann GmbH
The other Enja website, with sound, biographical information, new releases, etc.
ESP Disk
"Innovative, influential, independent American Jazz label, ESP-Disk presents its catalogue and artists with descriptions and sounds samples."
Fantasy Records
Official website of Fantasy, Inc., home of the Original Jazz Classics reissue program.
Free Music Production
FMP's new website, with catalogue, artist biographies, some history, etc.
FMR (Future Music Records)
The website for one of Britain's most interesting free jazz/improvisation labels.
Some German Record Labels
Michael Stueckl maintains a number of websites here: ENJA Records Horst Weber GmbH; TUTU Records; Nabel Records; and BASSIC SOUND (featuring German bassist Thomas Stabenow).
Hat Hut Records
A nice website for the Swiss label; with catalogs, cover art, links, etc.
Impulse Records
Impulse, now owned by Verve, Inc. -- but still some of the best jazz of the 60s.
Jazz Records
A small independent label specializing in Lennie Tristano recordings.
Jazzheads Records
An independent label for original improvised music. With catalog, online ordering, site of the week, etc.
Leo Records
"A small independent company producing highly original, innovative, improvisation-based new music."
LJ Records
A Swedish label featuring improvised acoustic and electric music.
Monarch Records
"The jazz label of San Francisco - committed to spontaneous, improvised music, recorded LIVE!"
New Artists Records
An independent jazz label with more than thirty CDs in their catalog.
Saba/MPS Records List
Maintained by Karl-Michael Schneider, based on work by Francois Ziegler.
SteepleChase Records
The "official" SteepleChase site with catalog, a search engine, etc.
Sony Music
Sony Music's Web server, with current catalog, new releases, searchable database.
Twinz Records
"We're a new boutique jazz label and recording studio dedicated to releasing the finest in jazz CDs, showcasing premier New York metropolitan area musicians in collaboration with established artists."
Jazz Photography (14 items)
Art of Cool
Not really photography. A cool site featuring J. Michael Howard's jazz-related graphics, electronic art, and paintings.
Classic Jazz Photographs
Maintained by Paul Slaughter, with some terrific photos of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and others.
Gerald Belton: Photography for the Performing Arts
With several galleries of nice jazz photographs.
William Claxton Photography
With a gallery, bibliography, venues, etc.
Ralf Ginter
Beautiful black and white concert photos done with a medium-format camera.
William P. Gottlieb: Photographs for the Golden Age of Jazz
Courtest of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project. There are some nice (and deservedly famous) photos of Miles Davis.
The Golden Age of Jazz
The jazz photographs of William Gottlieb.
Hans Kumpf
A gallery of Hans Kumpf's photos, courtesy of Michael Ricci again.
Herman Leonard, Images of Jazz
Created by David Leonard, featuring some of Herman Leonard's terrific jazz photos. With a short biography.
Lester Levy
A gallery of Lester Levy's photos, courtesy of Michael Ricci's All About Jazz site.
The Gods of Music
Some of Jim Marshall's photos of rock and jazz musicians, biography, technical stuff.
Mephisto Photo
A Paris-based photo studio and agency specializing in Jazz and Blues, posters, etc.
The Birdland Murals
Thanks to Michael Ricci. Check out his All About Jazz site.