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"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
— bandleader John Philip Sousa [1854-1932]

Jazz Music Directory at Amazon
browse Jazz Music at Amazon

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long Series: website
browse book & CD sets from Amazon
"How To Play Jazz & Improvise" (Vol. 1)
book & CD [6/88] for $15.90
"How To Learn Tunes: A Jazz Musician's Survival Guide" (Vol. 76) by David Baker
book & CD [6/2000] for $21.98

	"Totally Jazz Piano" [2003] remastered classics by Art Tatum, Scott Joplin, Errol Garner, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Fats Waller & others 441 Records audio CD [9/2003] 2 disks for $19.98
	"Jazz of The Beat Generation" [2003] performers include Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan & Dizzy Gillespie audio CD [7/2003] out of prodn/used The Beat Generation Page at Maison d'Κtre Bookstore Coffeehouse
	"1937-1945 Birth of Bebop" [2003] by various artists "four star rating" - Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times Allegro/Jazz Legends music CD [5/2003] for $10.98
	"The Greatest Jazz Concert In The World" [1967] live recording with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins & T-Bone Walker Pablo audio CD [7/91] 3 disks for $29.98

Jazz  Books  &  Videos

	"Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950" [1982] by Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine DaCapo Press 12x9 pb [3/96] for $24.50 Wm Morrow hardcover [12/82] out of print/used
	"The Black Music History of Los Angeles, It Roots: A Classical Pictorial History of Black Music In L.A. From 1920-1970" [1992] by Tom Reed, with photos by Howard Morehead & others Black Accent on L.A. hardcover [10/92] out of print/used
	"The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings" [orig 1992] by Richard Cook & Brian Morton Penguin 9x6¾ pb 9th edition 12/2008] for $23.10 Penguin 9x6¾ pb 8th edition 11/2006] out of print/used Penguin 9x7 pb [7th edition 9/2004] out of print/used Penguin 9x7 pb [6th edition 4/2003] out of print/used
	"Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz In Los Angeles" [1998] Edited by Clora Bryant Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [12/99] for $13.97 Univ CA Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/98] out of print/used
	"The Oxford Companion To Jazz" [2000] Edited by Bill Kirchner Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/93] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2000] out of print/60+ used
	"The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs & Tapes of W. Eugene Smith From 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965" [2009] by Sam Stephenson Knopf 11x9½ hardcover [11/2009] for $26.40 Jazz Loft Project official website Wikipedia entry for W. Eugene Smith [1918-78]

browse jazz concerts on DVD at Amazon
browse jazz concerts on VHS at Amazon

	"The Story of Jazz" [BMG Special 1991] BMG b&w VHS [3/94] 6 tapes for $15.99 BMG b&w DVD [5/2002] for $12.99
	"Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns" [P.B.S. miniseries Jan 2000] Directed by Ken Burns; narrated by Keith David P.B.S. Paramount b&w/color DVD set [9/2004] 10 disks for $79.99 P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color DVD set [1/2001] 10 disks - out of prodn/used P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color VHS set [1/2001] 10 tapes - out of prodn/many used series credits from IMDb "Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music" music CD set [2000] Sony music CD set [11/2000] 92 tracks on 5 disks for $37.05
	"Jazz 10 Movie Pack" DVD Box Set [2005] Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [9/2005] 2 disks - out of prodn/used contains 8 feature films & two 'soundies' compilations: "Check and Double Check" [1930] starring Amos 'n Andy, with Duke Ellington & orchestra; "The Duke Is Tops" [1938 musical] starring Ralph Cooper & Lena Horne; "Hi-De-Ho" [1947 musical] starring Cab Calloway; "Killer Diller" [1948] with Nat 'King' Cole & Moms Mabley; "Paradise In Harlem" [1939] starring Frank H. Wilson; "Reet, Petite & Gone" [1947] starring Louis Jordan; "Rhythm and Blues Revue" [1955] with Nat 'King' Cole, Lionel Hampton & Count Basie; "Rock n' Roll Revue" [1955] with Nat 'King' Cole, Duke Ellington & Lionel Hampton; plus "Soundies Cavalcade" and "Soundies Festival"

"The Lord of Vinyl" [still in development 2016]  
Announced 3/2012: Independent jazz film produced by & starring Jennifer Beals, written & directed
{debut} by Dennis Bartok; co-produced by Patrick Cunningham • latest info at IMDb

Scholars & Critics

critic Whitney Balliett

critic Leonard Feather
official website
Leonard Feather archives [est. 1995] at University of Idaho

Jazz  Artists

Woody Allen
Woody Allen has performed on clarinet in New York City clubs for many years
Woody Allen Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Louis Armstrong []
Essentials • concerts on VHS • Jazz Legends CD [4/2003] • biography [7/97]

Chet Baker: Essentials • Verve Definitive audio CD

Count Basie: Essentials • concerts on VHS • autobiography [1/86]

cornetist Bix Beiderbecke [1903-31]
Jazz Legends CD [9/2003] • "Private Astronomy" tribute CD [9/2003]

Society website
AH's fansite

trumpeter Bunny Berigan: Jazz Legends CD [7/2003]

Art Blakey: Essentials

Dave Brubeck [1920-2012]
Essentials • browse music

"Time Out" album [1959]
the first jazz LP to sell one million copies

Cab Calloway & Orchestra: Jazz Legends CD [3/2003]

alto saxophonist Benny Carter [1907-2003]
browse music • official website • Rutgers site

violinist Regina Carter: browse music

Nat 'King' Cole: Essentials • Verve Definitive audio CD

saxophonist Ornette Coleman: Essentials

"Ornette: Made In America" [indep Feb 1986, restored 2/2013] /tt0089742/
http://www.projectshirley.com/ornette.html movie by Shirley Clarke [1919-97]

Buddy Collette: browse music

John Coltrane
[ "Martinis taste like John Coltrane sounds." — Robert B. Parker ]
Essentials • browse music • concerts on VHS • concerts on DVD

biography [1/98]

Miles Davis [1926-91]
browse music • concerts on VHS • concerts on DVD

AMAZON EXCLUSIVE: "Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection" Limited Edition CD Box Set [2010] Columbia/Legacy Limited Edition music CD set [1/2010] 71 disks orig $190.98 / out of prodn/used contains 70 CDs (all 52 of Miles’ Columbia recordings) and one DVD "Live in Europe ’67", and a 250-page book with biography, discography, song index & rare photos

Miles Davis Box Set on 43 CDs

"Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis” [10/2006] by Gregory Davis /B005IUVNZ8/

"Miles" feature film [release in 2013?]  
Announced 11/2011: The script by Isaac Fergusson is being revised per producers Nick Davis Raynes & Ged Dickinson, with the late trumpeter’s eldest son
Gregory Davis as consultant & George Tillman, Jr. set to direct; film is 'loosely based' on the book "Dark Magus" {below} • not yet listed on IMDb

Paul Desmond: browse music

jazz guitarist Ted Dunbar [1937-98]

saxophonist Teddy Edwards [1924-2003]: browse music

Duke Ellington: Essentials • official website
browse music • concerts on VHS • concerts on DVD

"Duke Ellington's America" [2010] by Harvey G. Cohen /0226112632/

saxist/teacher Bruce Eskovitz: browse music

pianist Bill Evans {"is like a god in Japan"}
Essentials

trumpeter-bandleader Maynard Ferguson [1928-2006]
browse recordings • Wikipedia

Ella Fitzgerald [1917-96]
Essentials • Jazz Legends CD [3/2003] • JM's fansite

Pete Fountain []

George Gershwin: Essentials • browse music • Broadway credits   

Stan Getz: Essentials • Verve Definitive audio CD

John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie [1917-93]
Dizzy Gillespie entry at Wikipedia
autobiography "To Be or Not ... To Bop" [1979]

saxophonist Benny Golson: browse music

Benny Goodman
Essentials • Jazz Legends CD [4/2003] • free online radio programs

saxophonist Dexter Gordon [1923-90]
browse music • biography • videos/DVDs • credits at IMDb

Wardell Gray: browse music

pianist John Hammond: browse music

'King of the Tenor Sax' Coleman Hawkins
browse music

pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines: browse music

Billie Holiday [1915-59]
Essentials • concerts on DVD • concerts on VHS • 'Quintessential' audio CDs • movie credits

"Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection" [2005] 42 songs on 2 CDs and 17 audio & video tracks on DVD Hip-O Records digi-pak [4/2005] for $35.99

The song "Strange Fruit" was written in 1937 by poet, teacher, and activist Abel Meeropol [1903-86] (under his pseudonym, Lewis Allan) and was a protest against lynchings in general and specifically against the 1930 lynching of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp in Marion, Indiana. "Strange Fruit" was recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 and became one of her signature songs; it was also recorded or sampled by many other well-known singers, including Nina Simone, Diana Ross, Tori Amos, Cassandra Wilson, and Kanye West.
watch performance by Billie Holiday & piano [b&w upload 11/2006; 2:33] online at YouTube
listen to Billie Holiday & horn & piano [upload 12/2011; 3:02] online at YouTube

singer Alberta Hunter [1895-1984]
browse music • bio [1987] • "My Castle's Rockin'" docu-film: VHS | DVD • credits at IMDb

sexy saxophonist Jessy J.

jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal: browse music

Elvin Jones [-2004]: browse music
Hank Jones: browse music
Thad Jones [-1986]: browse music

saxophonist Grace Kelly
already seven records at age 22 (2014)

Diana Krall: browse music

drummer Gene Krupa

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross trio: browse music

Ramsay Lewis: browse music

singer Abbey Lincoln [-2010]

saxophonist Charles Lloyd: browse music

Bennie Maupin's 'Chamber Jazz': browse music

bassist & composer Charles Mingus [1922-79]
browse Charles Mingus Music Store at Amazon • browse Charles Mingus on DVD at Amazon

"Charles Mingus: Jazz Workshop Concerts, 1964-65" [2013] 7-disk set

Thelonious Monk [1917-82]
browse Thelonious Monk Music Store at Amazon • browse Monk on DVD at Amazon

"Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original" [10/2009] by Robin Kelley
http://www.amazon.com/Thelonious-Monk-Times-American-Original/dp/0684831902/

"Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of The Jazz Baroness" 6/2011] by David Kastin
http://www.amazon.com/Nicas-Dream-Life-Legend-Baroness/dp/0393069400/

"The Baroness: The Search For Nica, The Rebellious Rothschild" 3/2013] by Hannah Rothschild
http://www.amazon.com/Baroness-Search-Rebellious-Rothschild-ebook/dp/B009FKTMLY/
http://www.amazon.com/Baroness-Search-Nica-Rebellious-Rothschild/dp/0307961982/

tenor saxophonist James Moody: browse music

King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band
browse music

trombonist Edward 'Kid' Ory [1886-1973]: browse music

Charlie 'Bird' Parker [1920-55]
Essentials • browse music
concerts on VHS • concerts on DVD

Charlie Parker Festival & Block Party [August 2007 = #14] in New York City
biography [11/96]

Art Pepper [1925-82]: browse music • auto-bio "Straight Life"

Oscar Peterson {Trio}: browse music

pianist Bud Powell [1924-66]: Verve Definitive audio CD • biography [4/98]

saxophonist Homer Louis 'Boots' Randolph III [1927-2007]

guitarist Django Reinhardt [1910-53]
browse music

Django Reinhardt bio by Dregni [11/2004] • 1961 Django Reinhardt bio by Delauney
French Django Reinhardt fansite • Franηois's Django Reinhardt fansite

drummer Buddy Rich

drummer Max Roach [d. 2007]

saxophonist Sam Rivers: browse music

pianist Joe Sample: browse music

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
browse recordings • official website

"Concert In The Garden" {winner 2004 Grammy} limited edition CD offer

actress-pianist Hazel Scott [1920-81]
movie/TV credits (1943-70) • Wikipedia
on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s

"Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of A Jazz Pianist From Cafe Society To Hollywood To H.U.A.C." [2008] by Karen Chilton Univ MI Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2008] for $19.77

                               

alto saxophonist Bud Shank [1926-2009]: browse music

'King of the Clarinet' Artie Shaw [1910-2004]
browse music • books & bios • free online radio program • credits at IMDb

Jazz Legends CD [5/2003]

pianist George Shearing [1919-2011]

saxophonist Wayne Shorter: browse music

Bessie Smith: Essentials

Art Tatum: Jazz Legends CD [5/2003]

Mel Torme: Essentials

Sarah Vaughn: Essentials • Verve Definitive audio CD

Gerald Wilson: browse music

saxophonist Lester Young: Jazz Legends CD [7/2003]

Saxophone  Dept.
saxophone entry at Wikipedia
History of The Saxophone
KG's 'playing the saxophone' site

	"Giants of The Blues Tenor Sax / Giants of The Funk Tenor Sax" by various artists, including Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt Prestige audio CD [11/91] 3 disks for $29.98
	"Saxophone" [2002] by Philip Glass Orange Mountain audio CD [11/2002] for $17.99 album webpage

Jazz  Links
jazz radio iPhone app
RedHot Jazz Archives
Jazz Roots website
New Jersey Jazz Society
New Mexico Jazz Calendar
Madison [WI] Jazz Society
Puget Sound [WA] Traditional Jazz Society
JD's 'Intl Saxophone HomePage'
Sax WebRing
All About Jazz website
Jazz Professional [dot] com
Jazz Entertainment Foundation
Peters at the Atrium Centre {dining & jazz} in Rancho Mirage, CA

Los Angeles [CA] Jazz Society
Pasadena [CA] Jazz Institute [est. 2000]
Jazz Bakery Nightclub, in Culver City CA
Steamers Jazz Club & Cafe in Fullerton, CA
Clancy's Crabshack in Glendale, CA
Baked Potato in Studio City, CA
Los Angeles [CA] Jazz Reporter {performance listings}

Morro Bay [CA] Jazzuary Festival [January]
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival [February = est. 1967, renamed 1984] at University of Idaho
New Orleans [LA] Jazz & Heritage Festival [April-May 2004 = #35]
Sacramento [CA] Jazz Jubilee [May 2003 = #30]
Newport Beach [CA] Jazz Festival [May]
Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Festival [est. 1991] in Aspen, CO
Newport Beach [CA] Summer Jazz Series [Fridays June-Oct 2004]
New Mexico Jazz Festival [July 2018 = #13] in Albuquerques & Santa Fe, New Mexico • old website {last update 2014}

Jazz In The Pines Festival [August] in Idyllwild, CA
Monterey [CA] Jazz Festival [Sept 2003 = #46]

Dixieland  Jazz  Dept.

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz Compilations at Amazon
browse New Orleans Jazz Music at Amazon

Original Dixieland Jazz Band® [est. 1916] of New Orleans, LA
Vancouver [BC Canada] Dixieland Jazz Society
Dukes of Dixieland band
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
New Orleans Traditional Jazz, Wedding & Funeral Band [] based in Los Angeles

Ward Kimball & Frank Thomas and other Disney Studios animators performed
as the Firehouse Five Plus Two Dixieland jazz band from 1953 to 1975.
Their dozen-plus albums are still available.

Pismo Beach [CA] Dixieland Jazz Festival [Feb 2003 = #24]
Oregon Dixieland Jubilee [Feb]
San Clemente [CA] 'Dixieland By The Sea' Festival [May]
San Diego [CA] Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival [Nov 2006 = #27]

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