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Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Contains interviews with such artists as Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, and McCoy Tyner.
www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/jazzhist.html
Smithsonian Jazz
Intended to preserve and promote Jazz music. Includes an online version of the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington collection.
www.smithsonianjazz.org
Red Hot Jazz Archive
History of jazz before 1930. Includes songs, biographies, and discographies.
www.redhotjazz.com
Tulane University - William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
Preserves primary sources for the study of jazz history. Includes an extensive oral history.
www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html
Jazz Roots
History of early jazz.
www.jass.com
Craig's BigBands and BigNames
Original historic reviews and photos of swing, and big band, and other performers from the '40s and '50s.
www.bigbandsandbignames.com
Great Day In Harlem, A@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Entertainment/Great_Day_In_Harlem__A
Lush Lives: Ladies of Jazz
Biographies of artists from 1930 to 1990.
www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/jzindex.html
Jazz Files, The
Biographies and discographies of some jazz musicians of the 1950s and early 60s.
www.thejazzfiles.com
Big Bands Database Plus
Historical archive of big bands throughout the world, and writings on American popular music history.
www.nfo.net
Gallery 41
Featuring rare, historical, and uniquely personal conversations with the greatest Jazz artists of our generation. Highlighted with photographs, voice and music audio clips, and more.
www.gallery41.com
Jazz Museum in Harlem
Dedicated to fostering the spirit of jazz greats, and considers the music as a living, breathing entity that looks as far into the future as it does into the past.
www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Jazz__A_Film_by_Ken_Burns
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Information on jazz and the park.
www.nps.gov/neor
World of Jazz and Its Originators
Offers contemporary and historic information and images.
afgen.com/jazlinks.html
Chicago Jazz Archive
Highlights of the collection are materials from the late 1910s through the 1920s that document the birth of "Chicago style" jazz. Located at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library.
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/index.html
Gabler, Milt@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Producers/Gabler__Milt
Styles of Jazz
Interactive map tracing the stylistic development of jazz.
www.wnur.org/jazz/styles
University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC): Club Kaycee: Kansas City Jazz History
From the sound archives and music collection of the Miller Nichols Library.
www.umkc.edu/orgs/kcjazz
Jazz Loft Project
Documents an underground New York loft scene. Devoted to preserving and cataloging W. Eugene Smith's tapes, researching the photographs, and obtaining oral history interviews with surviving loft participants.
cds.aas.duke.edu/jazzloft

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