Ricks collected writings including books of Poems & Satire, Music & Speculative Spiritual Essays and Much More! Also Check out Ricks Weblog & Ricks Music/Visuals in main menu.
Jazz portal for Smithsonian Institution. Information on jazz exhibits, events, and concerts. Jazz education and classes on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, and Louis Armstrong. Jazz history resources from National Museum of American History.
History, quotations, and photos, of Jazz and artist, from New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Kansas City, from the late 1800's to the Big Band Swing Era
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.
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 magazi
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.
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 Los Angeles Jazz Institute houses and maintains one of the largest jazz archives in the world. All styles and eras are represented with a special emphasis on the preservation and documentation of jazz in southern California. Many artists personal coll
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.
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