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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
Jazz Roots
History of early jazz.
www.jass.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
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
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: 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
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
Jazz Appreciation Month Resources
Jazz history resources from the U.S. Department of Education.
www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=156
World of Jazz and Its Originators
Offers contemporary and historic information and images.
afgen.com/jazlinks.html
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
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection, documenting the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml
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
Ghosts of Harlem
Book of photographs by Hank O'Neal of jazz musicians.
www.jazzspot.com/jazzspot/books/the_ghosts_of_harlem.htm
Kansas City: Paris of the Plains [read review]
Tuneful, multimedia online exhibit documents the jazz age in Kansas City, 1920-1940. Companion to a show at the University of Missouri's Miller Nichols Library.
www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/parisoftheplains/webexhibit/index.html
Great Day In Harlem, A@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Entertainment/Great_Day_In_Harlem__A

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