Links

The Jazz in America project was created by The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. Click below to visit our and Sponsors' websites as well as our recommendations of further jazz educational sites.

Sponsors

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

U.S. Department of Education

United Airlines

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

DownBeat Magazine  Includes monthly "Woodshed" and "Jazz on Campus" columns

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

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

Jazz at Lincoln Center  Online classes, weekly conversations with Wynton Marsalis, and concerts from the Jazz at Lincoln Center archives

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

Jazz History Timeline  Concise history of jazz from its foundations to today, including pertinent video examples

Jazz Lead Sheets, Trancriptions, Practice Tools, Jazz History, and More  Accurate downloadable jazz lead sheets and transcriptions, play-alongs, videos, jazz history, piano/bass/drums/guitar tutelage, and more.

Jazz Standards  Everything you wanted to know and more about jazz standards, including a ranked 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"

JazzTimes Magazine  Features jazz news, music reviews, discussion forums, festival listings, merchandise, and contests

Musical Playgrounds for Kids: The History of Jazz Music  Links to multiple jazz resource websites regarding the history of jazz, jazz education, jazz societies, and more.

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.)

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

Smithsonian Jazz Oral Histories  Oral histories of NEA Jazz Masters

William P. Gottlieb Collection of Jazz Photographs  A collection of Gottlieb's jazz photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and more