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Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

http://www.the-matrix.com/jazz/aljazz.html

Contains information about the organization whose stated mission is "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music." Includes information on jazz events, their museum, instrument recycling, and the Jazz In Schools Program.

Albert Ayler: His Life And Music

http://ernie.bgsu.edu/%7Ejeffs/ayler.html

Presents a well-researched, well-written account of the free jazz music of Albert Ayler. Includes a very lengthy essay about Ayler's life and music. Also provides sound examples, album artwork, and a discography. This site has been put together by someone who loves Ayler's music and is well recommended.

Arizona Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Festival

http://www.infomagic.com/~azjazz/index.html

Offers complete schedules and ticket information for this fairly new jazz and blues event held in Flagstaff and brought to you by the organizers of the famous Telluride Jazz Festival. Also provides information on travel and accommodations.

Beeblebrox Homeworld

http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~mherzig/beeblebrox.html

Provides home site for the Bloomington, Indiana-based jazz quintet Beeblebrox. Site includes a band bio, tour dates, recording background, and links to other related sites.

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

http://sd.znet.com/~bydesign/coltrane.john/

Presents the music and the man that is John Coltrane. Includes many different pictures, sound bytes, album artwork, and a very complete discography. Provides many different articles, interviews, and stories about Coltrane and his music. Also provides links to other Coltrane sites and links to other jazz sites. This site is highly recommended to any music fan.

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things

http://www1.sanderso.org/sanderso/coltrane.html

Includes many quotes from the jazz giant and a lengthy detailed thesis of Coltrane's music. Provides links to other jazz sites, a bibliography, and a gallery of photos. This is a well-crafted site.

Electric Gallery

http://www.egallery.com

Features paintings and sound samples of blues and jazz greats.

Bill Frisell Home Page

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2251/frisell.html

Includes a lengthy discography, articles, and an biography of jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. Provides links to other Frisell- and jazz-related sites. ">Includes a lengthy discography, articles, and an biography of jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. Provides links to other Frisell- and jazz-related sites.

Hard Bop Cafe

http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mcgonig/hardbop.html

Serves as a complete guide to jazz in Canada. Includes concert and festival information, jazz on the radio, jazz publications, CD reviews, and more.

Harmolodic

http://www.harmolodic.com/begin.html

Provides home page for Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic productions. It includes background information about Ornette Coleman's music and philosophies of free jazz. Includes contact information, liner notes, and a Coleman discography. This site is a great source of information for jazz fans.

Jaco Pastorius

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/7831/

Provides a tribute home page to jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius. Includes a detailed discography that also outlines Pastorius' session work. Also includes articles, pictures, and links to other bass- and jazz-related sites.

Jazz Central Station

http://www.jazzcentralstation.com

Features worldwide club, concert, and festival information, interactive reviews from JazzTimes magazine, recent and upcoming releases, artist reviews, the Jazz Cafe, and the Jazz Market. Also includes official site for the International Association of Jazz Educators.

Jazz Improvisation

http://gopher.adp.wisc.edu/jazz/

Presents a series of articles for a course on jazz improvisation, taught at the University of Wisconsin. Serves as an introduction to the subject. Includes many images of musical notation and photos of jazz musicians.

Jazz in France

http://www.jazzfrance.com/us/

Surveys the entire French jazz scene, including festivals, magazines, musicians, jazz on radio and TV, and jazz awards. Provides texts in English and French.

Jazz Net

http://www.dnai.com/~lmcohen/index.html

Your guide to jazz on the Internet. Offers weekly updates and reviews of new jazz sites, as well as links to jazz-related sites.

Milestones: A Miles Davis WWW Site

http://miles.rtvf.nwu.edu/miles/milestones.html

Provides a thorough discography, articles, and photographs of jazz great Miles Davis. Includes interview sound bytes, album artwork, and links to other Davis and jazz sites. This site is a great introduction to the art of Miles Davis.

Pat Metheny Web Server

http://www.gilman.com/Metheny/home_page.html

This is the official home page of jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny. Includes upcoming tour dates and releases information. Also provides a complete discography, articles, and answers to frequently asked questions. This site is very well done.

Charles Mingus Home Page

http://www.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/

Provides a great deal of information and background on the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Includes a discography, articles, interviews, and other features. Includes links to other jazz and related sites.

Thelonius Monk

http://www.achilles.net:80/~howardm/tsmonk.html

Provides a history, discography, and pictures of jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk. Includes current news, album reviews, and links to other jazz-related sites.

Pacific Blues & Jazz

http://www.speakeasy.org/nwjazz/

Contains a potpourri of jazz information, pertaining to the northwestern United States (mostly Washington). Includes area artists and their recordings, concert and festival schedules, jazz publications, and visual art.

Pages of Fire

http://www.cs.ut.ee/~andres_d/mclaughlin/home.html

This site is dedicated to the music of jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Includes discography, tour dates, album reviews, articles, and sound bytes. This site is lovingly put together and is recommended to fans and neophytes alike.

The Real Mingus Web

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/

Provides the official Charles Mingus Internet site. Includes a letter from Sue Mingus and detailed articles about the life and music of Charles Mingus. Also provides Mingus' writings and listings of authorized recordings. This is a great site for any jazz fan.

Traditional Jazz (Dixieland)

http://www.best.com/~kquick/dixie.html

Focuses on Dixieland music. Provides information on the bands, festivals, publications, societies, and places to hear Dixieland on the radio all over North America. Offers many links to newsgroups, mailing lists, and other jazz Web sites.

William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz

http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html

Contains oral history interviews, recorded music, photographic collections and film, sheet music and orchestrations, and numerous files containing manuscript materials, clippings, and bibliographic references. Contains information about the archive, photos, sound clips, and a complete index to the oral history interviews.

WNUR-FM JazzWeb

http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/

Contains information on jazz. Includes essays on the different styles of jazz (accessible from a unique hypermap that reveals their interrelationships), artist bios, discographies, and reviews. Also offers information on festivals, venues, regional concerts, instruments, jazz in the media (radio, television, press), jazz art, and various jazz resources. Continually updated.

John Zorn

http://mars.superlink.net/marko/jz.html

This is a well done unofficial site dedicated to the avant-jazz music of John Zorn. Includes articles, essays, and liner notes from Zorn releases. Also includes links to other related sites.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

—Charlie Parker