Jazz Links

Locally Maintained (8 items)

Jazz CDs For Sale
Miles Davis CDs for sale. Also Charlie Parker and Other Artists. Many Japanese Blue Notes, other imports, a few box sets. Order online!

Miles Ahead
A Miles Davis website, with links to a discography, session list, searchable database, LP and CD covers, etc. Also includes a Charlie Parker sessionography and searchable database.

Other Miles Davis Websites
A locally maintained list of links to Miles Davis websites.

The Blue Note Label
All Blue Note 10" and 12" LPs (5000, 1500, and 4000 series).

The Prestige Labels
All Prestige jazz recordings, including 78rpm, 45rpm, 10" and 12" LPs from Prestige, New Jazz, Moodsville, and Swingville labels.

Free Music Production (FMP)
All FMP, SAJ, and Uhlklang LPs; FMP singles and special projects; FMP, OWN, and a/l/l CDs. With personnel, recording dates, locations, cover art, etc.

Walt Dickerson
A discography of the excellent but neglected vibraphonist. (Walt Dickerson died of a heart attack on May 15, 2008, at the age of 80.)

Mal Waldron
A chronological list of Mal Waldron records. (Mal Waldron died on December 2, 2002 in Brussels.)

General Resources (45 items)

HyperRepertoire
BMI's song title, composer, publisher, and performer database.

ACE on the Web
ASCAP's song title, composer, publisher, and performer database.

52nd Street Jazz Forum
Reviews, discussions, and news about the world of jazz.

All About Jazz
Maintained by Michael Ricci.

The Jazz Discography Project
Compiled and maintained by Nobuaki Togashi, Kohji 'Shaolin' Matsubayashi, and Masayuki Hatta. A terrific resource!

Album Discographies from Both Sides Now
Another excellent resource, maintained by Mike Callahan and David Edwards.

Jazzmatazz
Maintained by Alan Lankin, good on the Philadelphia jazz scene.

Michael Fitzgerald's Jazz Research Pages
A good resource with links to discographies, labels, etc.

Bop City
Vintage Jazz Internet Radio: "Playing cuts from vintage vinyl LPs, Bop City harkens back to the golden age of jazz. Complete with a few pops and clicks, this is pure jazz radio as it was, and as it always was meant to be."

Great Day in Harlem
A nicely arranged introduction to jazz, based on the famous 1958 Art Kane photograph.

Great Day in Harlem
Another site inspired by the Kane photo, with biographies, pictures, sound, and interesting links.

The Hard Bop Homepage
Maintained by Eric B. Olsen, with nice accounts of the music and artists.

Hep Cat 1950
An excellent collection of jazz links, discographies, images, and other stuff. And beautifully organized, too.

Institute of Jazz Studies
Located at Rutgers University, an excellent resource.

jazz.com
Edited by Ted Gioia, with news, reviews, blogs, etc.

Jazz-Studies.com
Home of the Jazz Education Store... jazz theory flash cards!

Jazzprojekte
Maintained by Dr. Michael Frohne, with discographies, reviews, etc.

Jazz After Hours
Based on Jim Wilke's PRI program.

jazz-book.com
Maintained by Norbert Ruecker -- a terrific source for discographies (in many languages), biographies, video, and other jazz materials.

JazzBeat.org
A site for "self-publishers of jazz education material, jazz lessons, CD's and DVD's, and creators of original jazz related products."

Jazz Chicago
With articles, links to jazz venues, etc.

The Jazz Files
Featuring bebop and hard bop greats from the 1950 and 60s.

Jazz First Books
Specializing in first edition jazz and blues books and rare signed music memorabila. Excellent selection, searchable; online ordering.

Jazz FM
Jazz FM RealAudio programming.

JazzFusion.TV
"Features hundreds of hours of free, rare, vintage, live audio and video from jazz fusion's most influential artists, including: Herbie Hancock, Return To Forever, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Larry Coryell, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Airto, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Brecker Brothers, Stanley Clarke, etc."

The Jazz Guitar Transcription Site
With solos, licks, online lessons, recommended resources, links, etc.

Jazz Improvisation
The entry point for Joan Wildman's courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with pointers to other jazz sites.

Jazz Montréal
Courtesy of the Association de jazz de Montréal, with concert information, discographies, etc.

Jazz New York
Home of Art Attack: The publication for and about liberation musicians in NYC.

The Jazz Pages
By Frank Schindelbeck, in German and English. A good starting point for jazz browsing. New addition: Jazzphotography of Karlheinz Klüter.

Jazz Review Pages
An excellent site chock full of jazz CD reviews.

Jerry Jazz Musician: Bringing you the goods on the greats
Part magazine, part catalog -- a nice celebration of jazz in the 1950s.

Modal Jazz
A site dedicated to modal jazz. Maintained by Stephen Pollock, with video, sheet music, links, etc.

Morrice's Jazz Review
Maintained by Morrice Blackwell, with reviews, a few links, etc.

NPR Jazz
The jazz website for National Public Radio. With reviews, events, jazz radio stations, etc.

Noal Cohen's Jazz History Web Site
Maintained by Noal Cohen, with nice discographies of Teddy Charles, Elmo Hope, and Tiny Kahn.

A Passion for Jazz
Maintained by D C DowDell MMC, pianist, composer, and music educator, with educational resources, etc.

Record Reviews
David Bertrand Wilson and John Alroy's excellent site, with hundreds of reviews of jazz and rock LPs and CDs.

RoJaC - Robert's Jazz Corner
Maintained by Robert Stubenrauch, with excellent discographies, photo gallery, etc.

Karl-Michael Schneider's Music Links
A good starting point for discographical information -- very comprehensive and nicely laid out.

Swingmusic.net
Maintained by Jeff Parker -- "Swing music spanning seven decades of jazz history."

Swinging Europe: The European Jazz Youth Orchestra
"Features almost 20 young, brilliant musicians all among the best in the land, each with the distinct musical language of one of the 17 countries represented this year. Far from performing the music of one particular country or musical tradition, Swinging Europe characteristic is the mix of musical languages that inspires and enriches, creating a unique interplay between different cultural traditions of Europe."

Jazz 100: Top 100 Jazz CDs
"The Best Jazz Ever Released on CD, based on a comprehensive statistical survey of jazz critics, record stores and popular polls." With short reviews, cover art, etc.

Uncle Larry's Crazeology
The home page of a jazz show from the inimitable WORT-FM in Madison, WI. Lots of playlists, jazz birthdays, etc.

What is Jazz?
Billy Taylor's informative website.

Musicians (78 items)

The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-Vous
Maintained by Gilles Miton, with discographies, solo transcriptions, pictures, etc.

Art Ensemble of Chicago Discography
Maintained by Jack Lefton, with information on most commercially available AEC recordings.

Joshua Bayer
Website of the Washington DC Jazz bassist, guitarist, and composer. With links to CDs, clinics, gig schedule, etc.

Bengt Berger
Bengt Berger's website, with discography, touring information. etc.

Paul Bley
From Improvising Artists, with biography, discography, etc.

Paul Bley and Annette Peacock
A nice tribute, with discography, photos, etc.

ReStructures.Net
Maintained by Jason Guthartz, with Anthony Braxton discography, index of titles and recordings, etc.

Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation
With discography, concert schedule, etc.

Peter Brötzmann Discography
An online version of the limited-edition printed discography of Brötzmann's recordings from 1966 to the present.

Dave Brubeck
Maintained by Malcolm Wallace, with discography, photos, touring schedule, etc.

Gary Burton
The official Gary Burton website, with current projects, tour information, etc.

Roy Campbell
The official Roy Campbell site.

Benny Carter
Maintained by Laurence and Edward Berger; nicely organized with pictures, discographical information, etc.

Solo Flight: The Charlie Christian Website
Maintained by Leo Valdes, with complete discography, transcriptions, photo gallery, bibliographies, etc.

Jazzcontinuum: The Website of Graham Collier
With biography, discography, writings, current projects, downloads, etc.

Dave Wild's WildPlace
Maintained by a noted authority on John Coltrane, with Coltrane discography, links, etc.

Andre Condouant
The official website of the guitarist, composer, and arranger. With discography, essays, photos, etc.

Jacki Cooper
Jazz singer from Adelaide, South Australia; with gigs, CDs, etc.

D.C. & Co.
Dave Costarella and Company, with photos, CDs, links, etc.

Jan Lohmann's Miles Davis Page
Maintained by Jan Lohmann, author of the excellent discography, The Sound of Miles Davis (Copenhagen, 1991).

Paulette Dozier
"A sultry Jazz stylist well recognized for her renditions of traditional and smooth jazz."

Rick Eldridge
Website for the pianist Rick Eldridge. See also his label, Pentagram Records.

The Bill Evans Web Pages
Maintained by Jan Stevens, with reviews, interviews, links, etc.

Gil Evans
Courtesy of Le maison du jazz; with a discography, photos, index of compositions, etc.

Johnny Frigo
The official site, with biography, discography, photos, etc.

Bill Frisell discography
Maintained by Bryan Aaker, with links, cover art, etc.

Dexter Gordon
Maintained by Harvey Bloomfield, with discography, etc.

Henry Grimes
The official Henry Grimes website.

The Lars Gullin Society
Maintained by Pär Rittsel, a nice site with CD discography, links, etc.

Gunter Hampel Music
Hampel's website with links to Birth Records, biography, etc.

Andrew Hill discography
Maintained by Marcel Safier.

Billie Holiday
A good site devoted to Lady Day, with discography, pictures, and other links; the work of P.R. De Mooy (aka ecduzit).

Dave Holland
The official Dave Holland website, with biography, discography, tour schedules, etc.

AltSax/Noah Howard
Noah Howard's label and discography.

Bobby Hutcherson
Maintained by Luca Benporath, with excellent sessionography, discography, etc.

Ken Hyder
The official Ken Hyder website, with tour information, current projects, discography, etc.

KeithJarrett.org
"An unofficial Web site about jazz pianist Keith Jarrett." Maintained by Olivier Bruchez, with discography, news, tour dates, etc.

Abdullah Ibrahim's Mantra Modes
A site devoted to the thoughts and work of Abdullah Ibrahim (a.k.a. Dollar Brand).

Ronald Shannon Jackson
With discography, news, etc.

The Creative World of Stan Kenton
Maintained by Noel Wedder, with links to many Kenton-related sites.

Steve Lacy Senators
"Senators' aim is to promote jazz saxophonist and composer Steve Lacy's music among musicians and connoisseurs."

René Laanen
The official website of Dutch trombonist, with links to other Dutch musicians, etc.

Joe Locke
The official website, with discography, tour schedule, etc.

The Warne Marsh Site
Maintained by Jack Goodwin, with news, notes, discography, photos, etc.

Joe McPhee
The official Joe McPhee website.

Charles Mingus
The official Charles Mingus site, with discography, writings, etc.

Charles Mingus
Esa Onttonen's fine website with discography, biography, links to related sites, etc.

Mitchell Music Management
Diane Mitchell's site dedicated to the music of her husband, Red Mitchell.

'Round About Monk
Maintained by Jacques Ponzio, a great collection of essays, links, photos, etc. Very nice design, too.

Barbara Montgomery
The official Barbara Montgomery site, with discography, performances, links, etc.

David Murray
Maintained by Marcel Safier.

Nostalgia: Honoring Fats Navarro
A good site maintained by Stuart A. Varden, with reviews, sound clips, and a fine discography.

Adam Nussbaum
The official Adam Nussbaum site, with interviews, calendar, etc.

The Bird's Legacy: Charlie "Bird" Parker Records Collection
Maintained by Toriya, a terrific discographical aid with covers, track lists, etc.

Chasin' the Bird
Maintained by Yoichi, with links, discussion, etc. In Japanese and English.

Roy Powell
International keyboardist and composer, with biography, discography, links, etc.

Sam Rivers Sessionography
Maintained by Rick Lopez, with links to other Rivers sites, etc.

Frank Rosolino Discography
Maintained by Robert Mesite.

Adelaide Ruble
Website for the singer Adelaide Ruble. See also her label, Pentagram Records.

If Mountains Could Sing: Terje Rypdal
A good tribute site maintained by Jeff Gower -- lots of discographical information, pictures, news, etc.

Jaleel Shaw
With discography, biography, touring schedule, downloads, etc.

Archie Shepp
With biography, fan club information, a rudimentary list of recordings, etc.

Horace Silver Discography
Maintained by Eric B. Olsen as part of The Hard Bop Homepage.

blueyes.com
Frank Sinatra music, memorabilia, and more.

Jazz Spotlight on Sinatra
"Jazz Artists who have recorded songs that Sinatra performed, with some Sinatra of course."

Tomasz Stanko
The official Tomasz Stanko website (thanks to polishjazz.com), with works, sounds, photos, etc.

Melissa Stott
The official site of the Anglo-Chinese singer Melissa Stott, with biography, soundclips, and photos.

Fredy Studer
The official Fredy Studer website, with discography, current projects, etc.

SoundInsights
Maintained by Doug Payne, with material on Lalo Schifrin, Oliver Nelson, Shirley Scott, Gabor Szabo, and others.

Vienna Art Orchestra
The official VAO website, with discography, tour schedule, artist biographies, etc.

Barney Wilen Discography
Maintained by Jud Warren, with disography, biography, videos, etc.

Mike and Kate Westbrook
The official Mike and Kate Westbrook site, with discography, links, etc.

Kenny Wheeler Discography
An excellent Japanese discography maintained by Kamiko N., with cover art, etc.

Soul on Soul: Mary Lou Williams
A terrific site at the Rutgers University Institute for Jazz Studies. With audio, photographs, discography, etc.

The Incredible Kai Winding
The official website, maintained by B.J. Major, with discography, etc.

Reggie Workman's BassScanz
"Bringing you links to bass players, other bass related sites, and jazz music in all of its many styles (Big Band! Bop! Post-Bop! Straight-Ahead! Free! & Hip-Hop)- to the internet community."

Masaya Yamaguchi
Website of the guitarist and music educator. Check out his Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales as well as articles, links, etc.

Rick Zunigar
Another guitarist website, with biography, discography, gigs, photos, etc.

European Resources (27 items)

Afribeat
A good route into the African jazz scene, present and past. (Yes, I know, it isn't European.)

Chipin & Kaiya's Chinese Jazz Website
Maintained by Chi-pin Hsieh and Kai-ya Chang, with biographies, etc. Mostly in Chinese. (Yes, another non-European resource. Time to start another category.)

Warta Jazz
"An Ultimate Source for Indonesian Jazz Lovers."

PuroJazz EnVivo
The online version of the PuroJazz show which airs Sunday nights on Radio Beethoven, 96.5 FM in Chile.

European Free Improvisation
Peter Stubley's website with pointers to resources concerned with free improvisation from Europe.

Jazz In Belgium
The Web Site of LES LUNDIS D'HORTENSE, the Belgian association of jazz musicians. All about the Belgian jazz scene and its musicians.

Café Damberd
"In a pluralist atmosphere of tolerance and respect we'd like to get you drunk and hope to be pleasant company... Café Damberd, a bar to have an intimate conversation, while listening to jazzmusic, and where musicians and public of all nations get together."

www.jazzmasters.nl
A clearinghouse for all sorts of Dutch jazz musicians.

Willem Breuker Kollektief
The website for the Netherlands' best big band, with links to BVHaast discography, etc.

Jazz Market
A Dutch site with lots of links to jazz sites on the web.

Italian Jazz Musicians
A great site with links to dozens of Italian musicians and ensembles, recordings, photographs, etc.

Dansk Musik
Maintained by Bjarne Gren, a good starting point for exploring the Danish jazz scene. (In Danish.)

Musiknet.dk
Another good entry point to the Danish scene.

Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
Europe's largest public research archive on jazz, and a good starting point for exploring German and European jazz.

Jazzbands Online
Sie suchen eine Jazzband? German jazz groups for hire.

STIM: Swedish Music Information Center
A great starting point for information about Swedish jazz and musicians.

SwedeJazz
The website of the Swedish Jazz Federation, with news, information on clubs and festivals, etc.

Swedish JazzWeb
A good starting point for exploring the Swedish jazz scene. Partly in Swedish.

Musikkinformasjonssenteret: Norwegian Music Information Centre
A good starting point for exploring the Norwegian jazz scene.

Jazznet
"Jazznet supports British Jazz Musicians and promotes their music and gigs." Beware of embedded music files.

Jazz Action
The Jazz Development Agency for Northern Arts and Yorkshire Arts, maintained by Adrian Tilbrook.

Jazz Services
This group "promote[s] the growth and development of jazz within the UK."

Jazz in Scotland
The work of Ian Millar and Dominic Spencer, with monthly features, tour schedules, festival information, etc.

Havana Swing
A Scotland-based quintet who specialise in the music of Django Reinhardt of the Hot Club de France, Latin and originals.

Polish Jazz Network
Maintained by Cezary Lerski, with artists, festivals, radio links, etc.

Polish Radio Lublin
Maintained by Pawel Smoothie Wadolowski. Check out the program "Jazz Corners."

Reelsound
"Reelsound specialises in mobile audio recording from voice and music work for TV, film and video to CD."

Festivals and venues (5 items)

Cleethorpes Jazz Festival
An annual event held in the traditional English seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire. Website has information on booking tickets, full event listings, etc.

Great Jazz Club, Linkoping
With schedule, festival information, links, etc. In Swedish.

Moers New Jazz Festival
The official website of the Moers Festival, with history, schedules, etc.

Montreux Sounds
The Montreux Jazz Festival concerts database, searchable via Excite.

Les Nuits du Jazz
A French Jazz Festival that takes places in Nantes, Western France. Features the Côte Ouest Big Band with jazz vocalists from all over the world.

Vinyl LPs (20 items)

Acoustic Sounds, Inc.
A good source of new and used high-quality vinyl.

Audiophile USA
Excellent selection of used and new records.

The Best Vinyl Shop
Mosaic Records offers new vinyl. Good selection, blog for vinyl lovers, etc.

Better Records
"Life is too short to play crappy records. We specialize in ANALOG for the ADVANCED AUDIOPHILE."

Classic Records
High-quality reissues of classic LPs (jazz and classical).

Elusive Disc
A good selection of audiophile vinyl, as well as CDs, SACDs, hardware, and accessories.

LP Now: Out of Print Vinyl
A nice site -- but look for jazz together with "Easy Listening" (!).

Music Direct
Vinyl records, SACDs, hardware, accessories.

Record Research
The website for Joel Whitburn's Record Research books, with links, etc.

The Record Collectors Guild
A club for vinyl enthusiasts, with sales, want lists, etc.

Sound Stage Direct
Good selection of new vinyl, many genres.

Vinyl Web Stop
Assembled by Geir Høydalsvik, a good list of sources of vinyl records. This site is in the USA.

Vinyl Fanatics
Reviews, forums, links and news.

Vinyl Vault
Acoustic Sounds, "World's Largest Supplier of Audiophile Records"

VinylTom, the Record King
A German web-based shop with large selection. Nice interface.

Talas Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration Supplies
For cleaning and restoring all kinds of audio stuff (excellent record cleaning ingredients).

Osage Audio Products, LLC
Home of Audio Intelligent Vinyl Solutions, excellent stuff for cleaning and maintaining vinyl records.

The Laughing Papillon
Your Online Source for Vintage Vinyl and Collector's Information. Check out the Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell page.

The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials
By Gilles St.-Laurent, a music librarian at the National Library of Canada.

Sleeve City
An excellent selection of inner and outer sleeves for LPs, CDs, etc.

Online Sources (26 items)

Bare Jazz Nettnytt (Bare Jazz NetNews)
A good source of news and a searchable CD shop as well.

The Bebop Shop
"The online record shop for bebop, hard bop, and modern jazz."

Berigan's Jazz Store
The online version of Oakland's Berigan's Jazz Records, specializing in collector vinyl, etc.

Birka Jazz
Maintained by Torbjörn Sörhuus -- a Swedish shop specializing in jazz of all kinds.

Buskerdoo
CD/DVD cases, sleeves, inserts, labels, and mailers of all kinds. Excellent selection.

Cadence Magazine and Records
A good source of non-mainstream jazz and improvised music.

CDJazz.com
An internet jazz shopping center managed by Music Mecca ApS in Copenhagen.

Cheap or What! CDs
A U.K. shop with searchable catalog. New and used records and CDs.

Concert Posters
A good resource if you're looking for posters or other memorabilia; jazz, rock, etc.

Cosmic Sounds
A record label and used LP shop, maintained by Zeljko Kerleta. A good source of hard-to-find eastern European recordings.

Downtown Music Gallery
A large selection of new music, jazz, contemporary classical, and other music. Online ordering.

Dusty Groove® America
Soul, Funk, Jazz, etc.; and check out the upcoming releases page.

ejazzlines.com
Jazz specialists, with CDs, video, books, sheet music, etc.

Forced Exposure
A good source on non-mainstream jazz and "new music."

HMV Japan
A good place to search for available CDs. (In Japanese.)

Jazz Loft
A good source of independent-label jazz recordings.

Jazz Record Mart
The largest jazz and blues record shop in the world, online.

Jazz West DVD
Online source for all styles of jazz on DVD.

Midheaven Mailorder
A division of Revolver USA Distribution: independent label compact discs, vinyl, cassettes, 7" singles, magazines, etc.

Mosaic Records
The place to go for complete set reissues of your favorite jazz musicians. Now with a "future projects" section.

Music and Record Stores
A nice alphabetical list of links to online sources, courtesy of MusicSearch.

Red Trumpet Quality Vinyl and CD Outlet
A good-sized catalog of new, used, and rare vinyl and CDs. Very nice interface.

Verge Music Distribution
A Canadian site presenting "the real alternative music culture."

JPC: Musik à la carte
A German site; they have a nice search engine for their online catalog.

Le Site de la FNAC
A French site with music, books, CD-ROMs, video, etc.

Sound Source
A excellent source for Japanese CDs, magazines, etc.

Record/CD Labels (30 items)

Arkadia Records
Home of Dave Liebman, Benny Golson, Kenny Drew, and others.

Art of Life Records
An independent label formed in October 2000 "with the purpose of providing jazz artists an alternative outlet for releasing their music."

Blue Note Records
Official website of the premier jazz label of the 50s and 60s; with sound clips, new release and reissue information, biographies, etc.

Boheme Music International
A label specializing in "European jazz, jazz-rock, progressive and world music including jazz from Russia."

Candid Records
The official website of the 1960s label, now with many CD reissues.

Cryptogramophone Records
"Cryptogramophone...present[s] artists who are not afraid to make their music challenging or beautiful as they explore the far reaches of artistic vision and instrumental technique."

Delmark Records
The Chicago-based jazz and blues label, with online catalog, etc.

Dragon Records
A Swedish label with an excellent catalog of historic and contemporary recordings.

ECM Records
An extensive site with online ordering, etc.

Emanem Records
Maintained by Martin Davidson himself, with discography, etc.

Enja Records Matthias Winckelmann GmbH
The other Enja website, with sound, biographical information, new releases, etc.

ESP Disk'
"Innovative, influential, independent American Jazz label, ESP-Disk' presents its catalogue and artists with descriptions and sounds samples."

Evil Rabbit Records
Founded in 2006 by pianist Albert van Veenendaal and double bass player Meinrad Kneer, an independent label by musicians for musicians.

Fantasy Records
Official website of Fantasy, Inc., home of the Original Jazz Classics reissue program.

Free Music Production
The website of the premier label for European free music, with catalogue, artist biographies, history, photos, etc.

Free Music Production Distribution
A mail order site for FMP and related labels, with catalogue, history, etc.

Future Music Records
The website for one of Britain's most interesting free jazz/improvisation labels.

Some German Record Labels
Michael Stueckl maintains a number of websites here: ENJA Records Horst Weber GmbH; TUTU Records; and BASSIC SOUND (featuring German bassist Thomas Stabenow).

Hat Hut Records
A nice website for the Swiss label; with catalogs, cover art, links, etc.

Impulse Records
Impulse, now owned by Verve, Inc. -- but still some of the best jazz of the 60s.

Jazz Records
A small independent label specializing in Lennie Tristano recordings.

Jazzbone Records
Featuring the Hank Johnson Trio.

LJ Records
A Swedish label featuring improvised acoustic and electric music.

New Artists Records
An independent jazz label with more than thirty CDs in their catalog.

Sony Music
Sony Music's Web server, with current catalog, new releases, searchable database.

Splasc(H) Records
The premier label for Italian jazz. With online ordering.

Spotlite Records
From Charlie Parker's Dial recordings to Peter King and Mick Pyne -- the entire Spotlite catalog. Online ordering.

SteepleChase Records
The official SteepleChase site with catalog, a search engine, etc.

Synergy Music
The website for the Denver-based label; artists include Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron, Paul McCandless, and Art Lande.

Verve Music Group
The official site of the Verve Music Group -- new home for Impulse, Mercury, Clef, and many other labels. Oh, and they have contemporary artists too.

Jazz Photography and Art (15 items)

James Allen's Fine Art Gallery
Original artwork inspired by jazz and with jazz themes.

New Orleans Jazzfest Archives
Jazzfest Archives is an online art exhibit dedicated to sharing the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival experience through the photography of Dino Perrucci.

Art of Cool
Not really photography. A cool site featuring J. Michael Howard's jazz-related graphics, electronic art, and paintings.

Classic Jazz Photographs
Maintained by Paul Slaughter, with some terrific photos of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and others.

Gerald Belton: Photography for the Performing Arts
With several galleries of nice jazz photographs.

William Claxton Photography
With a gallery, bibliography, venues, etc.

William P. Gottlieb: Photographs for the Golden Age of Jazz
Courtesy of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project. A large collection of nice (and deservedly famous) photos of jazz musicians.

The Golden Age of Jazz
The jazz photographs of William Gottlieb.

Hans Kumpf
A gallery of Hans Kumpf's photos, courtesy of Michael Ricci again.

Herman Leonard, Images of Jazz
Created by David Leonard, featuring some of Herman Leonard's terrific jazz photos. With a short biography.

Lester Levy
A gallery of Lester Levy's photos, courtesy of Michael Ricci's All About Jazz site.

The Gods of Music
Some of Jim Marshall's photos of rock and jazz musicians, biography, technical stuff.

On the Corner
Spaceman's jazz photos -- Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Cedar Walton, and many others.

The Birdland Murals
Thanks to Michael Ricci. Check out his All About Jazz site.

Jazzphoto.com
Featuring the photography of Mark Wohlrab, with guestbook, links, etc.

E-zines, etc. (7 items)

mikezwerin.com
Mike Zwerin's great columns, a slick layout, searchable. Terrific resource.

freejazz.org
A forum for discussion or free jazz, improvisation, etc. from all sorts of perspectives.

culturekiosque: la culture en mouvement
A very hip e-zine featuring (among much else) the writing and reviews of Mike Zwerin. Check out his Sons of Miles pages.

Downbeat Jazz
The online version of the magazine. With a nice searchable archive.

Jazz Report: Voice of the Artist
A quarterly e-publication with interviews, reviews, radio listings, etc.

Jazz Thing
The first German-language jazz magazine; with news, reviews, concert dates, biographies, etc. (In German.)

Perfect Sound Forever
"The online music magazine with warped perspectives."