The Library of Congress website devoted to Gerry Mulligan, legendary jazz saxophonist. Includes biographical information and other resources.

Website for Lionel Hampton, legendary jazz percussionist. Includes recordings, videos, and biography.

The Official Web Site of Buddy Rich has everything you want to know about this famous drummer. Read his biography and learn the story of "Traps the Drum Wonder." Browse the photo gallery for pictures of Buddy Rich on and off the stage!

The Smithsonian Jazz initiative has created a very fine website that brings together oral histories from jazz greats such as Artie Shaw, information about the Smithsonian’s own Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and a very fun “This Day in Jazz History” fe

Since 1958, the pleasant seaside town of Monterey has hosted the Monterey Jazz Festival and their vast archives of performances, ephemera, and other materials are housed at Stanford University's Archive of Recorded Sound. With substantial funding from the

WELCOME! Thank you for visiting what some call the most innovative music site on the web today. What makes the site so special? For starters it's the only site that has the chord charts to over 800 songs(and growing), most of which are jazz standards. Th

This is the site for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. There are great resources for jazz lessons as well as lesson plans for grades 5, 8, and 11. Some of the resources available are timelines, style sheets for the different types of jazz, and a glossary of jazz terms. The style sheets are very detailed and helps to clarify the differences between similar styles.

This is the online version of the text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer. Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group.