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Jazz Links

If you put JAZZ into a search engine (and delete the references to basketball teams), you'll come up with maybe 2 million hits. That's enough to scare away even the most avid Jazz fan. We've listed below some generally useful sites, broken into broad categories. Each site has many links that lead you deeper into the subject (or maybe further away). If you've got suggestions for the list, please let me know; maybe we'll add them. These are in no particular order. (These links were active at the time of entry, but the web is a volatile place. If you find that any of these links no longer work, please let us know, and we'll either update or delete them. Thank you.)

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History and general discussions

The Ken Burns film

Dispensational Jazzology

Jazz History

Jazz.com

JazzCorner 

The Styles of Jazz

A Great Day in Harlem

JazzPromo

All About Jazz

Red Hot Jazz Archive

America's Jazz Heritage

The Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection

The Jazz Advocate

Historical Persepctive on Jazz by Gunther Schuller

Jazz Professional - Interviews, profiles, and all kinds of other good stuff

JazzSite.com profiles, interviews, etc.

Jazz is Art/Art is Jazz - An interesting site from Australia

Jazz Lives - An interesting jazz blog with lots of links

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Jazz festivals

Festivals in the Northeast

A place to find world-wide Jazz festivals

Another place to find Jazz festivals all over

And yet another festival finder

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Bands & Living musicians (mostly local)

Earl Belcher

Carl Burnett

David Calarco

Tim Coakley

Adrian Cohen

Chuck D'Aloia

Peg Delaney

Cary DeNigris

Joe Finn

Jupiter Circle

Rich Lamanna

Dan Levinson

April Marie

Marlowe & Company - Big Band of the Northeast

Laurel Massé

Mother Goose Jazz Band

Nisky Dixie Cats

Skip Parsons

Brian Patneaude

John Pizzarelli

Colleen Pratt

Lee Shaw

Sonny and Perley

Joey Thomas Big Band

Alex Torres & the Latin Kings

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Dead musicians

Oscar Aleman (The Argentinean guitarist you never heard of)

Louis Armstrong Bio #1   Bio #2   Bio #3

Bix Beiderbecke

Nick Brignola

The Dukes of Dixieland

Ella Fitzgerald

Gene Krupa

"Jelly Roll" Morton

Fats Waller

Bios of deceased musicians

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Places to buy Jazz stuff

The Jazz Store

Jazz Heritage Society

ejazzlines

Dixieland Jazz Mail List

Jazzman Records

Jazzbeat.org Jazz education material, jazz lessons, jazz CD’s and DVD’s, and jazz related merchandise

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Jazz Humor

Swing Era & modern colloquialisms

Music Jokes

More music jokes

And yet more...

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Organizations & Publications

International Association for Jazz Eduucation

Dixieland Jazz Mail List

New Jersey Jazz Society

The American Rag

The Mississippi Rag

JazzNow Magazine

The Jazz Review

Traditional Jazz Educators Network

International Association of Jazz Record Collectors

American Federation of Jazz Societies

Down Beat Magazine

New England Jazz Alliance

Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation

Hartford Jazz Society

Cape Cod Jazz Society

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Jazz Radio Stations with streaming music - where to hear Jazz on-line

WAMC

KLON

KAZU

OKOM (Our Kind Of Music)

Live365 wide selection of all styles

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Local links and Miscellaneous

albanyjazz.com

Albany Jazz Co-operative

Song list with composer, date and key

Jazz Clubs around the World

Jazz Valley - an interesting French site (in English)

An interesting site with many good links

Not specifically a jazz link, but covers the Albany arts scene in general

Keep Swinging - an interesting site from The Netherlands

Jazz Professional - Interviews, profiles, and all kinds of other good stuff

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