Jazz

This site lists radio stations throughout the six New England states that stream jazz on line.

This Web page lists numerous stations that stream jazz on line and also provides links to them. Most can be listened to at no charge.

Jazz Legends...just like it says!

This site hosts 64 jazz podcasts available for downloading.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Indexes books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.

Worthwhile umbrella site

The British Library makes available historic jazz recordings, oral histories by and about noted figures in the jazz world as well as examples of other types of music. Some materials are not available to non-British
subjects..

Another portal site worth investigating as you learn more about jazz. Jazz Corner furnishes podcasts.

From WNYC's Web page: "The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series. From 1957 to 1965, the master photographer W. Eugene Smith had a studio and darkroom in a dilapidated building on 6th Avenue north of 28thstreet in Manhattan. The Jazz Loft, as it became known, had already become a favored spot for jam sessions by hundreds of jazz players of the day. During his years there, Smith became obsessed with the goings-on in the building, musical and otherwise, and he taped and photographed them..."

The Web site of the Verve label is worth a visit.
Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest jazz singers of history, was a Verve artist, and so is Abbey Lincoln,
who, sadly, died this year shortly after the release of what turned out to be her valedictory album.

This site focuses on the early history of jazz, covering the years from 1895 to 1920.

This fascinating site is devoted to the history of jazz in New England.