Provides information about jazz history with links to jazz clubs and festivals. Also includes a gallery of jazz posters.

History of styles and musicians with timeline, glossary, photos, festivals, teacher locator, and shopping for fakebooks and instruction books.

Important jazz facts from 1895 to the present.

The history of jazz starting from the late 1800's.

A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.

Significant collection founded in 1976 at the University of Chicago including early recordings, sheet music, photos and piano rolls, much of which is accessible online.

A sound-and-sight archive from the library of the Kansas City campus of the University of Missouri.

Click on Art Kane's August 1958 photograph of 57 jazz musicians for names of those pictured, or browse by timeline, instrument, or style. Link to the Jean Bach documentary of the shoot, online sales of the photo originally published in Esquire magazine.

Fan site profiling Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fats Waller, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Lil Johnson.

Musician and historian Max Morath discusses American popular music standards with Jerry Jazz Musician. Pictures, sound files, text.

Past history, musical samples, and transcriptions demonstrate that trombonists' contributions have had a crucial role in the development of the jazz language during the 20th century.

Traces development from the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts of the 1940s to the label's founding by Norman Granz in 1956 and the coalition formed with labels such as GRP and Blue Thumb in the 1990s. Artists listed, audio versions of pages.

A brief history of early New Orleans jazz, musician biographies, and audio links.

Fascinating facts on who played with whom, when, where and why.

Tom Morgan offers lavishly illustrated profiles of early 20th century performers along with links to books, a timeline from 1800 to 1930, and images of early sheet music including a year-by-year collection of Cotton Club Parades.

Essay by librettist Arnold Sundgaard on jazz history as originally published June, 1955 in the Atlantic Monthly.

African Genesis portal offers one-line biographies of New Orleans musicians, a lengthy discussion of Louis Armstrong, and a collection of clippings and quotes on jazz from the 1930s.

The life and music of the blues shouter are outlined in anecdotes, discography and a lengthy 1963 interview taken from the Stanley Dance book, "The World of Count Basie." Photos and links.

Loose collection of pages devoted to Count Basie, Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, and Bennie Moten, with a page for the modern Basie band under Grover Mitchell. Photos, link to ring.

Internationally known jazz club where many Americans gathered to play in the 1950s. Features photograph of a door inscribed with the names of musicians who appeared at the club, and memories of Billy Strayhorn.

Catalog of recordings released by Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside Records, sorted by musician, label and date. Session indexes, biographical notes, links.

This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz

A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography.

Collection of articles with text and photos by Tony Gieske, jazz reporter in the 1950s for the Washington Post and later for the Hollywood Reporter.

Features a history of jazz origins, styles, including retro photo.

The National Museum of American History offers audio, video and text; oral histories, artists, videos, portraits and concert program notes.

The history of swing music from the 1930's until today.

Biographical and discographical information on a long list of notable jazz clarinetists, including links to other sites.

Music and the musicians of the jazz style of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photos.

The history of jazz from the beginning to the present day.

Jazz archive, photos, and vintage records are displayed. A historic jazz calendar is included.

Guide to musicians who made great jazz in the 1950s including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderly. Biographical articles with photos, discographies, and links.

Houses and maintains one of the largest jazz archives in the world. All styles and eras are represented with special emphasis on preservation and documentation of jazz in southern California.

A history of jazz in Norway.

E-zine article by Billy Bob Hargus connecting jazz artists auch as Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman with the roots of punk music. Links, photographs.

The Richard M. Wright Jazz Archive of jazz recordings including the private collection of bandleader, Loring "Red" Nichols.

Concise guide to various jazz styles and the artists and recordings associated with each style, edited by Dr. David Schroeder of New York University.

Four lectures on jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor.