Links

The Jazz in America project was created by The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

Click below to visit our Partners' and Sponsors' websites as well as our recommendations of further jazz educational sites.

Educational Partners

Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Inc.  Jazz education materials (books, videos, play-along recordings), summer jazz workshop info, jazz forum, etc.

Sponsors

A440 Violin Shop  Chicago-based string instrument dealer specializing in sales, repairs, restoration, and rentals.

Hall Piano Company  Southern Louisiana's premier establishment for piano sales and service and the exclusive Steinway & Sons dealer for Louisiana.

Naperville Music  Pianos, all musical instruments, sales, rentals, lessons, repairs, and more serving the greater Chicago area.

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

U.S. Department of Education

Jazz Education Links

A Passion for Jazz!  Focuses on jazz education and jazz history, with scale and chord charts, photos, and festival directory

All About Jazz  Jazz biographies, timeline, CD reviews, current news, humor, building a jazz library, and more

Down Beat Jazz Education 101  Overview of jazz history including descriptions and representative artists of each style

Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Inc.  Jazz education materials (books, videos, play-along recordings), summer jazz workshop info, jazz forum, etc.

Jazz  Encyclopedia article from Encarta including jazz's characteristics, origins, and history

Jazz Corner  A comprehensive jazz calendar and bulletin board, plus more than 200 jazz musician and organization web sites

Jazz Primer for Rock People  Rudimentary facts and trends in the history of jazz

Jazz Standards  Everything you wanted to know and more about jazz standards including a list of and information about the 1000 most-frequently recorded tunes

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns  A wealth of jazz information including jazz classroom activites for K through 12 under the heading "Jazz Kids"

Mississippi Rag  Feature stories on contemporary and legendary giants of traditional jazz and ragtime; includes links to further jazz education sites

NPR Jazz  National Public Radio's jazz website; includes jazz education info (tune snippetts, discographies, book and CD reviews, jazz radio stations, on-line listening, etc.)

Red Hot Jazz  Jazz history before 1930 - biographies, tune snippets, films, etc.

Schomburg Center Video Oral History Gallery  Video interviews with major jazz artists

Smithsonian Jazz Oral Histories  Oral histories of NEA Jazz Masters

Sounds of Timeless Jazz  Interviews, feature stories, label and company profiles, concert listings, webcasts, and jazz lifestyle information; changes monthly

William P. Gottlieb Collection of Jazz Photographs  A collection of Gottlieb's jazz photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and related articles from Down Beat magazine from 1938 to 48