An excellent site for jazz history and education. You can learn about the important jazz artists and view a jazz timeline, but also learn about the technical element in jazz music. You can learn the many different styles of jazz, learn more about improvisation, view a glossary of jazz terms, and even discover where jazz music got its name.
A cool site with CD reviews and links. This site has everything for the current Jazz enthusiasts. On it, you can look up jazz artists out today, read album reviews and artist interviews, and search for different jazz festivals and performances to go to. There are also transcripts from contemporary jazz Artists. The site isn't to flashy, and is designed for wide age range. Good general site on Jazz. This is the largest website dedicated to jazz culture out today.
This online radio station specializes in playing high quality jazz music. The site offers many good recommendations for listening, and has a wide jazz library of songs to choose from. The site also offers a chart of top requested jazz songs and artists. You can even find out what milestone events happened in jazz history for each day you check.
The Jazz review is a website focused on providing information and reviews on a wide array of both current and classic Jazz artists and albums. There are also links to artists, CD, concert information and a number of additional links and resources. The colors are cool, and there are some neat graphics. This site is pretty simple overall, but does have excellent information and reviews.
This site holds lists of top artists and albums for every genre. There are also top lists grouped by decade, and even a top 100 list holding the greatest songs and albums of all time. Of course, these are opinionated lists, but it's nice to see what some others have to say.
This archive is focused on the history of the early Jazz. Here you can read essays on the origin of jazz and learn the backstory behind the jazz musicians and bands that performed between 1895 and 1930.
This website breaks up jazz into the many jazz styles that have occurred over the years. For each style, the site states what defined the style of playing, when it occurred, who played a vital role in its production, and what styles were influenced by it.
The official website of the renowned contemporary jazz artist Wynton Marsalis. This is an amazing website for anyone! The site is broken down into an online store selling all sorts of Marsalis merchandise, and an amazing other site which is his home page. This site has unbelievable graphics and flash displays, and has everything you could possibly want on Wynton Marsalis. This website provides a great insight into the life of a famous Jazz musician today.
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