10. Selected Internet Sites
Music Industry Research Guide - Harvard Business School - Baker Library: Includes Billboard Buyer's Guide (record labels, publishers), Trade Journals, Associations and Organizations, and Statistics and Analysis. The latter includes RIAA sales statistics, National Association of Recording Merchandisers, and other recording industry sales statistics.
[NOTE: Harvard users only; some resources are restricted to HBS users only]
African-American Studies: Newspaper Research - Strategies and Sources
Harvard College Libraries (HCL) Research Guide - excellent pointers to primary and secondary source material.
Online Resources for Music Scholars
HCL Research Guide - general music sources.
Archival Internet Resources
Finding tool for archival repositories around the world (useful for finding primary source material).
Repositories of Primary Sources
Louisiana section includes many jazz institutions.
UNESCO Archives Portal
Use the search function to find jazz collections in international archives.
Other finding tools for archives: See Union Catalogs in Online Tools for General Reference
Archives in New Orleans
Rich source for jazz materials.
A Beginner's Introduction to New Orleans Jazz (Hogan Jazz Archive)
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation
New Orleans Jazz Club Collections - Louisiana State Museum
Williams Research Center at the The Historic New Orleans Collection
--William Russell Jazz Collection at Historic New Orleans Collection
Archives of African American Music and Culture - Indiana University
California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz -California State University Long Beach
Chicago Jazz Archive at University of Chicago
Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives at the University of the District of Columbia
Hamilton College Jazz Archive - includes over 250 videotaped interviews
Institute of Jazz Studies - Rutgers University
-- Subject Research Guide: Jazz
-- Collections and Archives
Marr Sound Archives - University of Missouri - Kansas City
Richard F. Wright Jazz Archive at the University of Kansas
National Ragtime & Jazz Archive at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University, Special collections
University of Idaho International Jazz Collection
University of North Texas Music Library Jazz Research Portal
University of Pittsburgh-Sonny Rollins International Jazz Archives
Center for Black Music Research (Chicago)
Highly recommended, includes bibliographies (rap and hip hop), discography, and musical styles and genre resources; highly specialized and knowledgeable staff.
National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Betty Carter Homepage (Unofficial but handy discography and bibliography)
The Official Website of Ella Fitzgerald
NPR Jazz Profiles: Abbey Lincoln
PBS -- Jazz (Ken Burns): Women in Jazz
Sarah Vaughan (American Masters, PBS)
Sarah Vaughan -- Verve Records
See also the discographies section for links to more library research guides for jazz (vast resources and research methodology advice).
Black Grooves: Archives of African American Music and Culture
Charles Mingus: The Official Site (Sue Mingus)
The Jazz Archive - German site for jazz
Jazz discography project - comprehensive discographies for over 50 major jazz artists; can also search by record label
The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord (click the blue "Sign in " button) - "find all you want to know about vitually any jazz record ever released"; jazz links page links to 878 jazz websites.
Jazzmatazz - Musican sites, homepages, & discographies - links to many official sites of musicians
Library of Congress - American Memory: Performing Arts, Music - search for jazz topics
Red-Hot Jazz Archive - list of musicians
Smithsonian Jazz Portal (Oral Histories, Research Collections)
