Website of Down Beat Magazine, a magazine dedicated to jazz performance artists. Includes some biographies and other resources.

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 Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

NEA Jazz in the Schools takes a step-by-step journey through the history of jazz, integrating that story with the sweep of American social, economic, and political developments. This multi-media curriculum is designed to be as useful to high school histor

PBS site devoted to their series on Dave Brubeck, legendary jazz pianist.

Website devoted to the Stan Kenton Orchestra, an influential jazz band. Includes biographical information, external links, and other resources.

This website has a brief, yet comprehensive introduction to the history of jazz music.

The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime composers of his era and one of the more influential music

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!

A website that collects jazz video clips from Youtube and organizes them according to musician

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

The site features over 18,000 songs in the public domain; well-known chestnuts from the early days of jazz.

LinksForBand.com was created by a band director specifically for band students and directors. It features only the most informative, straightforward and useful websites pertaining to instrumental music. All sites have been carefully selected to exclude of

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.

Provided as part of the Smithsonian's rich resources on folk music, students can interact with a jazz band. They can choose from three songs representing different jazz styles and then raise and lower the volume of a particular instrument sound to hear it more accurately. If students select specific instruments, a window pops up with more information about that instrument's role in jazz ensembles.

Wikifonia is the place for musicians to publish and collaborate on lead sheets.

Jazz sheet music education, free (with no ads) for anyone who loves music.

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.