Bob Keller's Jazz Page

Welcome to my jazz page. It contains stuff to which I want to refer and to which I refer my students. (A few others have found it useful as well.)

Try our free software product for the improviser: Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor).

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Table of Contents

Academic Articles
Books, Charts, and Music off the Web
Calculators
California Music Stores
Chords and Scales
Critics and Journalists
Discs and Products
Discussion Groups
Explanations of Jazz
Instruction off the Web
Instruction on the Web
Instruments
Links

Miscellaneous
Musicians and Composers
Music on the Web
Music Software
Organizations
Periodicals
Radio Stations
Theory
Trumpet Stuff
Tunes
Venues
Workshops
Harvey Mudd College Music 84 Syllabus

Tunes
- ACE Database (ASCAP)
- Aebersold Tune Index (pdf, download)
- Classic Themes .com (categorizations by composer, etc.)
- Jazz Standards with keys, etc.
- List of 1000 Jazz Standards
- midomi.com (Tune search from audio)
- Second Hand Songs (cover database)
- Song Collection Index (B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library)
- Song Index (California Library Systems)
- Song Search (Los Angeles Public Library)
- Songs - Web Resources
- 100 Tunes to Know (jazztrumpet.com)
- University of Washington Popular Song Index
Music on the Web
- Indexes
  - Fake Books and Real Books
    - Charles Anderson Tune Data
    - Fake Book Index (Seventh String)
    - Fakebook Database (SUNY Buffalo)
    - fakebooksearch.com
    - Fake Books with tables of contents (U. of Miami)
    - Fake Books with tables of contents (Playjazz)
    - Fake book Finder
    - Real Book Listening Guide
  - Lyrics
- Changes
  - play-along tracks (JazzpianoTracks.com)
  - www.realbook.us (chord changes)
  - SongTrellis (changes)
  - Vanilla Book of chord changes (Ralph Patt)
    - Tunes categorized by tonal center
- Charts and Sheets
  - Find Free Sheet Music.com
  - wwww.jobim.org (Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  - musicnotes.com
  - pdfjazzmusic.com
  - Sheet Music Direct
  - 8notes.com
- epitonic.com
- Jazz Discography
- Latin Jazz Play-alongs
- Leadsheets
  - Electronic Real Book
  - The Guitar Guy (lyrics with chords)
  - Hoagy Carmichael (Indiana University Collections)
  - Jim's Fakebook
  - jazzpla.net (scanned leadsheets)
  - Kyle's Project
  - Leadsheet Notation
  - Bert Ligon Compositions
  - Museu de Partituras (Brazilian site)
  - "Greatest Little Jazz Book" (Red Book)
  - Wikifonia
- MIDI
  - Devian Jazz Midi Files
  - Hammersound sound fonts
  - Jam Central (MIDI play-along tracks)
  - jazztalk.org (BIAB and midi files)
  - Jazz Midi Links (dmoz)
  - MIDI Explorer (search engine)
  - MIDI files
  - MidiWorld
  - notz midi files
  - Sheet Music
  - TheJazzPage
  - ii-V-I progressions (Jimmy Bruno)
  - Jazz Progressions (musicstudents.com)
  - vanbasco.com (Searchable Midi Files)
- MP3
  - Beatriz Kauffman's Web Site (Brazilian music)
  - jazzpromo.com (free MP3's)
  - MP3 Review
  - Nuages du Swing (french)
  - Gypsy jazz backing tracks
  - Playalongstudio.com (free backing tracks, by Lee Griffith)
  - soundclick.com
- Music Library Association
- PlayJazzNow Play-Alongs (commercial)
- Practice Loops
- reallygoodmusic.com
- Musicovery.com
- Pandora
- Song Finder
- Spotify
- Transcriptions
  - Armand Reynaud Transcriptions
  - Barking Munchkin (Pat Martino and other guitar solo transcriptions)
  - Bass Transcriptons
  - Bert Ligon's Transcriptions
  - Bossa Nova Guitar (Jason Brazile)
  - Cannonball Adderly solos
  - Effective Solo Transcription (Jeff Helgesen)
  - Guitar Transcriptions (Brent Stuntzner)
  - Guitar Transcriptions (Joerg Heuser)
  - Guy Boistel
  - Dick Hyman
  - Dmitri Tymoczko
  - How to Transcribe (Seventh String Software)
  - jazzcenter.org
  - Jazz transcriptions.com
  - Jazz transcriptions.co.uk
  - Jazznote.co.uk Jazz Transcription Service (Andrew Barton)
  - jazzTrumpetSolos.com
  - Jeff's trumpet solo transcriptions, etc.
  - Lucas Pickford
  - Piano Madness (Colin Campbell)
  - Sax Solos (saxsolos.com)
  - Scooby-Sax Transcriptions
  - Steve Kahn (transcriptions, etc.)
  - Swiss Transcription Site
  - Transcription Links (MoneyChords.com)
  - Transcription Pool
  - Transcription Service (John McGann)
  - Transcriptions and Patterns (Charles McNeal)
  - Trumpet Transcriptions (Jacques & Claude Gilbert)
- Videos
  - Jazz Videos (from All About Jazz)
  - Collection of Jazz Video (Bob Kaster)
  - Videos from ArtistsHouseMusic.org
  - Doug McKenzie (piano videos with scores)
  - Jazz on the Tube (search engine)
Calculators
- Brian's huge chordlist collection
- ChordLab (single chord display)
- Chord Voicing Calculator (Mathematica-based)
- Scales and Chords (Brian Blood)
- ChordWizard spreadsheet (fretted instruments)
- eMedia Guitar Chord Dictionary (Java)
- Interchart (Interactive Chord and Scale Chart)
- Guitar-oriented calculators (wiki)
- musictheory.net (Animated theory lessons, trainers, chord calculators)
- Piano and Guitar Chords and Scales
- Scale Calculator and Chord Calculator (guitar-oriented)
- Spectral and Roughness Analyzer (SRA)
- Themefinder
- VisiChord (Chord visualizer developed at HMC)
Music Software
- Internet Jamming (ejamming.com)
- abc format
- Ars Nova Software
- Audacity
- Band-in-a-Box (PG Music)
  - BIAB Files (Wesley Dick)
  - BIAB links (Alisdair Macrae Birch)
  - MIDI Studio Consortium
  - mmissary BIAB files
  - Norton Music (BIAB disks)
  - Real Book
  - Tutorial (Larry Bolch)
  - BIAB file converter
- Bol Processor BP2
- Burnie's List (virtual instruments)
- chordfinder (for guitar)
- Common Music Notation (Lisp-based)
- Denemo (music notator)
- Finale
- Freebyte Music Software (links)
- GenJam
- gmorgan (sequencer for Linux)
- GUIDO NoteServer
  - Keyboard Interface
- Groove Builder
- Haskore (Paul Hudak)
- Humdrum
- Indaba Music
- The Improviser
- Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor)
- JAM (Windows)
- Jammer (Windows)
- Java-based software
- jFugue
- jMusic
- Java Music Specification Language (JMSL)
- Jazz Scale Suggestor
- Leadsheet Notation (pure text notation for leadsheets)
- Interval Name Trainer (Joe Walker)
- GNU Lily Pond
  - using LilyPond for jazz
- Melody Assistant (Myriad Software)
- Harmony Navigator
- Max/MSP
  - jMax
- Mibac Jazz
- MIDI Illustrator
- MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment)
  - LeMMA (editor)
- Mup (Arkkra Enterprises)
- MusES (Francois Pachet)
- Musipedia
- Music Notation Links
- Music Notation Software
- MuseScore
- Music++
- MusicXML Software (Recordare.com)
- NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format)
- NinJam (real-time music collaboration software)
- ocmusic.com (a variety of tools for piano, guitar, etc., Ontario Conservatory)
- Progressionator (progression-generator)
- PLUM (Progamming Languages Used for Music)
- Random Chord Generator
- Robin Schmidt's Music Engineering Tools
- Score Writer (GenieSoft)
- shortchord.org
- Sibelius
- SmartMusic
- SuperCollider (programming language)
- Symbolic Composer
- THoTH (chord/scale analysis)
- TuxGuitar (Guitar tab and playback)
- Transcription software
  - Amazing SlowDowner
  - Capo 2 for Mac
  - intelliScore (audio to MIDI)
  - Slow Gold, Slow Blast!
  - Transcribe!
  - Transkriber (Reed Kotler)
- Yamaha Keyboard Resource Site
Explanations of Jazz
- How to Listen to Jazz
- Jazz Continuum (Graham Collier)
- Jazz Improvisation and Organizing: Once More from the Top
- So You Wanna Learn about Jazz?
- What Is Jazz? (Billy Taylor)
Instruction on the Web
- Aebersold's Jazz Handbook
- All About Jazz
- Bass Line Construction
  - Chris Fitzgerald
  - James Walker
- Blues Harmonica
- Chord Changes
  - Cadences (MIDI files)
  - Giant Steps Changes (Bob Keller)
  - Giant Steps Progression and Cycle Diagrams (Dan Adler)
  - Reno De Stefano (ii-V resolutions, Wes Montgomery, etc.)
  - Rhythm Changes
    - Rhythm Changes
    - What are "Rhythm Changes"?
    - Some Ideas for Playing Over Rhythm Changes (Carlos Barrientos)
    - Tunes based on
    - Not all Rhythm Changes Are Alike (Bob Keller)
  - "Secrets of Exciting Chords and Chord Progressions" (piano)
  - Turnarounds
    - Eric Nemeyer
    - MoneyChords
- Chord Melody (John Amato)
- Classes
  - The Art of Sound (Graham English)
  - Mike Gellar's Master Classes
- Common Sounds Found in Jazz
- Glossaries
  - Etymology of "jazz"
  - Berklee Glossary
  - Definitions
  - Glossary (from aPassion4Jazz)
  - Glossary with hyperlinked examples (Joe Craig, cyberschool for music)
  - Glossary of Jazz Terms
  - Popular Music analysis glossary (Society of Music Theory)
  - Theory Glossary
- Grove Dictionary on-line
- Guitar
  - About Guitar (Good general artcles on chord structure)
  - ActoGuitar
  - Between the Licks (Bryan Helmig)
  - BobRussellGuitar.com
  - Charlie Christian Method (for guitar)
  - Fingerings
  - Freak Guitar
  - Guitar Links
  - Guitar Player Archives
  - Guitar Tricks
  - Jazz Guitar Handbook
  - Jazz Guitar Starting Right (Dave Woods)
  - Jazz Guitar Workshop (Steve Carter)
  - Power Chords
  - truefire.com
- History
  - Jazz History (Info Please)
  - Jazz Primer for Rock People
  - Kalamazoo College (notes)
  - One-Page History of Jazz
  - Noal Cohen's Jazz History Web Site
  - TimeLines
    - Jazz History Time Line (jazzistry.org)
    - Jazz Style Map
    - Modal Jazz
    - Timeline from the Jazz Resource Library
  - Jazz Roots
  - Knowledge Web
  - Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Improvisation
  - Cutting the Changes (Antonio J. Garcia)
    - Handout
  - MIDI Backing Tracks for Various Modes (Music Teacher's Resource)
  - Backing tracks for various changes (commercial: jazznbluestracks.com/, free tutorials)
  - Berklee Shares.com
  - DIY Improvisation
  - GoodVibes jazz solos (commercial)
  - How To Improvise Jazz Melodies (Bob Keller)
  - How To Key-Map a Tune (Bob Keller)
  - How to improvise on the saxophone (wikiHow)
  - iBreatheMusic Forum
  - I was doing all right
  - Impro-Visor (Jazz Improvisation Advisor) d
  - Improvising as a Lost Art (William Harris)
  - Improvisation in the Eighteenth Century (Martin Maner)
  - Jazz Improvisation Almanac (Mark Sabatella)
  - Jazz Woodshed (for beginning bassists)
  - How Jazz Pianists Practice (Ted Rosenthal)
  - Jazz Improvisation Primer (Mark Sabatella)
  - Andy Middleton
  - musicstudents.com
  - Jazz Improvisation: A Four-Prong Attack (Chase Sanborn)
  - Jazz Theory and Improvisation (Pete Thomas)
  - Lee Konitz on Improvisation
  - the improvisor (free improvisation)
  - Musilsophy Improvisation Open Project
  - David Valdez
  - Variation Techniques for Composers and Improvisors (Larry Solomon)
  - TransJam WebDrum (networked group improvisation)
- Interval Recognition Songs
- Jazz articles (Frank Singer)
- Jazz Resource Center (chords, scales, voicings, transcriptions)
- Jazz-Sax.com
- jazztrumpet.com (Pete Estabrook's site)
- Jazz Fiddle Wizard
- Jazz Resource Library (Monk Institute)
- Jazz Styles
- Jazz Styles Hypertext Map (Northwestern University)
- Just Jazz Guitar
- The Language of Modern Jazz Music (Shai Cohen)
- Lessons and Education
  - bassically.net Bass lessons
  - Games
    - Chord Constructor
    - Strike-a-Chord
  - JazClass (Michael Furstner)
  - Jazz Exercises for 5-String Banjo (useful for all instruments)
  - Lesson Central (Vision Music, guitar oriented, but generally useful)
  - Lessons by:
    - Jeff Brent (piano voicings, etc.)
    - Rod Goelz (bass, guitar)
    - Tomas Karlsson (large set of jazz topics)
    - Lucas Pickford (discussion of scales)
    - Bob Russell (guitar)
    - www.pego.be
    - Willie Thomas (Jazz Everyone)
  - MusicianUniversity.com (commercial)
  - PassTheTorchMusic.com (commercial)
  - Piano
    - JazzPianoLessons.com (Willie Myette)
    - Learn Jazz Piano (Scott Ranney)
    - Learn-to-play-piano-online
    - Piano Basics (Edly Roseman)
    - pianologist.com
    - PianoNanny
    - Music and You (jazz piano lessons)
  - TrumpetFish (Introductory exercises)
- Licks
  - BopLand.org
  - Idiomatic Expressions (Eddie Lewis)
  - Jazz Educational Material (Mike Nelson)
  - Larry's Improv Page (Larry McKenna)
  - Lessons by Rick Del Savio
  - Lick of the Month
- Making your Lines Sound More Like Jazz (Guitar-oriented, Alisdair MacRae Birch)
- Money Chords (progressions, etc., guitar oriented)
- Music in Our World
- Music Novatory
- Musiciansnews.com
- Percussion
  - TapSpace
- Piano
  - How Jazz Pianists Practice (Ted Rosenthal)
  - pianomaster.es
  - pianoworld.com
- Ronan Guilfoyle (essays, books)
- Saxophone
  - Mel Martin's Jazz and Saxophone Website
  - Miles Osland (Saxophone)
  - saxontheweb.net
  - saxshed.com
- Theory
  - Bimodalism
  - Chord Theory
  - Dmoz links
  - Google Directory
  - FreeJazzInstitute.org
  - Harmonic Series (Catherine Schmidt-Jones)
  - The Harmonic Language Of Jazz Standards (In-Depth Summary) (Mark Sabatella)
    - Chord Quality
    - Minor Plagal Cadence (Backdoor Progression)
    - Notes on ... Series (Alan W. Pollack)
    - Pre-Cadential Progressions
    - Improvisation
  - Jazz Theory I & II (Hiroaki Honshuku)
  - Dr. Justin Henry Rubin
  - Music, Math, and Time
  - Musiciansnews.com
  - Star Theory
- Secrets of Songwriting
- "St. Thomas" Analysis (Steve Kahn)
- Understanding Music Theory (Catherine Schmidt-Jones)
- University of South Carolina Materials (Bert Ligon)
- Vocal
  - Solfege (Wikipedia)
  - Tips on Popular Singing (Frank Sinatra)
  - Rhiannon
  - Michele Weir
  - jazzvocal.com
  - Vocal Visions
- Voicings
  - Chris Fitzgerald
  - Jazz Instruction Downloads (Paul Prinzler)
- WholeNote.com (somewhat guitar-oriented)
Instruction Off the Web
- Master Jazz (John McNeil)
- Jimmy Bruno (Guitar)
- Harrison School of Music
- JazzBeat.com (Mike Longo)
- Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
- Jazzmaster workout
- The JazzSchool (Berkeley, CA)
- JazzU (St. Louis, MO)
- Rafael Mendez Brass Institute
- Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
- Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute
Books, Charts, and Music off the Web
- Abstract Logix (guitar-oriented)
- activemusician.com
- Advance Music
- Jamey Aebersold
- All Music Methods .com
- Amazon Listmania
  - Improvisation Techniques
  - Jazz learning resources
- Berklee College Bookstore
- Big list of jazz books (with links to amazon.com)
- Boptism (Rich Willey)
- Charles Colin
- Cornerstone Books
- Hal Crook
- CyberJaz
- Discographies
  - jazzdisco.org
  - Tom Lord Discography
- Ear Training
  - Earmaster (ear-training software)
  - Alisdair MacRae Birch's page
- Django books
- ejazzlines.com
- Forward Motion (Hal Galper)
- Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
- GMN JazzPlus
- Guavaberry Books
- How Music Really Works! (Roedy Black)
- HornCharts
- Randy Hunter
- Hal Leonard
- Hard Bop Homepage
- Hickey's Music Online
- www.hornplace.com (books)
- Jazz Cares
- Jazz Education Store
- Jazz First Books
- JazzGurus.com
- Jazz Media Press (Jazz Vocal Techniques)
- Jazz Path Music Publishing
- Catalog of jazz piano transcriptions
- jazzutopia.com
- J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.
- Kendor Music
- Eddie Landsberg
- Lotz Music Store
- Lydian Chromatic Concept (George Russell)
  - Critical review, by J. Brent
- Marina Music Service
- Mel Bay Publications
- Muse-Eek Publishing
- Musician's Reference Library
- Music Dispatch.com
- Music Mart
- The New Guide to Harmony with Lego Bricks (Conrad Cork)
  - Insights in Jazz (John Elliott, dropback.co.uk)
  - Lego Field Guide (Bob Keller)
  - Scrambled Lego Bricks
- Nightbird Music (Jim Grantham)
- OmniTone (John McNeil, et al.)
- "Play Like a Pro"
- Pender's Music
- PianoPlace.com
- Playjazz (books and CDs)
- Reservoir Music (CDs)
- Tim Richards (Exploring Jazz Piano)
- Jim Rousey
- George Russell
- Scarecrow Press
- Sheet Music Collections
- Sheet Music Service
- Curt Sheller Publications
- Sher Music Co.
- Speaking Jazz (Peter Hata)
- Stanton's Sheet Music
- Visual Jazz Publications (Bob Taylor)
- Wind Player site (Swiss)
- Wind Music Plus
- Windplayer.com
- Your Brain on Music

Chords and Scales
- Changes98
- Charts of chords, etc. (wholenote.com)
- Chord Names
- Chords to Scales
- Complete Jazz Theory (Michael Morangelli)
- A Reference for Jazz Theory (Michael Morangelli)
- Modes and Scales
- ModeExplorer (Groveland Software Labs)
- Scale Derivation
- Scaleopia
- Scalefinder
- Virtual Piano Chords (A Passion for Jazz)
Theory
- Akribi's music theory (scales and chords)
- Basic Music Theory
- Common Practice Tonality
- Consonance and Disonance Theories
- Tom Davis material
- Greg's Theory Page
- Guitar Columns (good theory notes)
- harmony.org.uk
- Notes by Ed Byrne
- Lydian Dominant Theory
- Jason Lyon articles
- Jazz Theory Bibliography (searchable)
- eMusicTheory.com
- Music Theory and Math
- Music Theory for Songwriters
- Music Theory On-Line (Dolmetsch)
- mute (Music Theory on the Web)
- Quarto Modes Concept (JazCraft)
- Schillinger System
- Theory on Tap
- Theory on the Web
- teoria - Music Theory
- Tritone Substitutions
- The Tonal Centre (explains various tonalities and cadences)
- Tonality Guide
Periodicals
- Downbeat
- Jazz Connection magazine (Northern California)
- JAZZed magazine
- Jazz Hot
- Jazz Improv Magazine
  - Jazz Improv tv
- Jazz Perspectives
- Jazz Piano Study Letter
- Jazz Player Magazine
- Jazzwise (U.K.)
- Jerry Jazz Musician
- Keyboard Magazine Online (select "master class")
Venues
- Los Angeles area
  - LA Jazz Calendar (LAjazz.com)
  - Jazz Police (travel website)
  - Jazz at the "A" Frame (Hollywood)
  - American Jazz Institute (at Claremont McKenna College)
  - The Baked Potato (Hollywood)
  - Boston Court Performing Arts Center (Pasadena)
  - CalJAS (California Jazz Arts Society)
  - Catalina Bar & Grill (Hollywood)
  - College Center (Claremont)
  - Charlie O's (Van Nuys)
  - 5th Street Dick's, 3347 W. 43rd Place, 213-296-3970, L.A.
  - Galli's (6620 Carnelian St., Rancho Cucamonga, 909-941-1100)
  - The Hip Kitty (502 W. First St., Claremont, 909-447-6700)
  - Jazz in the Pines (Idyllwild, August)
  - Jax Bar & Grill
  - The Jazz Bakery
  - LACMA Friday Night Jazz (L.A. County Mueseum of Art)
  - La Ve Lee Jazz Club (Studio City)
  - Lewis Family Playhouse (Rancho Cucamonga)
  - The Lighthouse Cafe (30 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, 310-376-9833)
  - M Bar and Grill (213A Pine Ave. Long Beach, 562-435-2525)
  - Mario's Place (3646 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, 909-684-7755)
  - The Mint (6010 Pico Blvd., 323-954-9400)
  - Pasadena Jazz Institute
  - The Press Restaurant (Claremont, occasionally has jazz)
  - Rio (15910 Ventura Blvd., Encino, 818-205-9799, Tues. jam: 8-11)
  - Rocco (Hollywood)
  - Sangria (Hermosa Beach)
  - Spazio (Sherman Oaks)
  - Vibrato Grill (Bel Air)
  - Walt Disney Concert Hall
  - World Stage (4344 Dengan, Thursday jam: 9:40-2)
  - L.A. Entertainment Guide, Clubs
- Orange County
  - Adele's, in the San Clemente Inn (2600 Avenida Del Presidente, San Clemente, jam: Thursdays, 6-10)
  - The Blue Danube (111 W. Ave Palizada, San Clemente, Tuesday jam 6:30-9:30)
  - Laguna Coffe Company (1050 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. at Anita Laguna Beach, CA 92651, 949-388-2933, Saturday Morning jam: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
  - Orange County Performing Arts Center
  - Steamer's Jazz Club and Cafe (Fullerton, Sunday jam: 8-12)
- San Francisco Bay area
  - Yoshi's
  - SFjazz.org
- San Diego area
  - Dizzy's
  - Onyx Room (Tuesday jam: 10-1)
- Seattle area
  - Jazz Alley
  - Tula's
- New York Area
- Other Areas
  - All About Jazz Venue listing
  - Jazz Clubs Worldwide
California Music Stores
- Independent
  - Alta Loma Music (Rancho Cucamonga)
  - Anaheim Band Instruments (Anaheim)
  - Bookmark (Pacific Grove)
  - Burt's Music in Print (Covina)
  - Folk Music Center (Claremont)
  - The Fret House (West Covina)
  - Keyboard Galleria (Santa Clarita)
  - McCabe's Guitar Shop (Santa Monica)
  - The Electronic Music Box (Los Angeles)
  - Musician's Supply Shop (Los Angeles)
  - Old Town Music (Pasadena)
  - Stein on Vine (Hollywood)
- Chain
Instruments
- ActiveMusician.com
- birdlandmusic.net
- Dillon Music (Woodbridge, NJ)
- Foster Jazz Guitars (New Orleans)
- Patchman Music (Electronic wind instruments)
- Piano Seeker (Atlanga, GA)
- Robb Stewart (Arcadia)
- Tulsa Band Instruments
- Woodwind & Brasswind
Discs and Products
- All Music Guide
- The Bebop Shop
- Changing Tones Music
- Copacetic Comics Co.
- GEMM (Global E-commerce Mega Marketplace)
- Hip Jazz-Bop! label
- MusicPad Pro (FreeHand Systems, Inc.)
- The Jazz Store
- Music Product links (dmoz)
- The Music Resource (formerly Double-Time Jazz)
- Music Web (reviews)
- PriceGrabber
- propermusic.com
- Talking Jazz
- Timeless Jazz Records
- WWW Music Database
Radio Stations
- KKJZ
- KSPC (Claremont Colleges)
- Guitar Jazz Station (Pat Smith)
- Jazz Spotlight On Sinatra (Nancy Barell)
Links
- About.com:jazz
- Afro Cuba Web
- All About Jazz (samedaymusic.com)
- aPassion4Jazz
- BBC Jazz page (Building a jazz library, etc.)
- Best of the Web
- Composition Links
- Contemporary List of Jazz Links
- Useful Links
- Dan Adler's Links (Guitar and other)
- EJMA (Swiss)
- European Free Improvisation
- Harmony Central
- Heptune Links
- Hot Club (Gypsy Jazz)
- Indiana University Music Resources
- Jazz by Net (French)
- Jazz Composition Links
- Jazz Links
- j@zz musLinks
- Jazz Services.org (UK)
- JazzonWeb.com
- www.jazzstandards.com
- TheJazzWebsite.com
- Joe Jewell's links (guitar)
- Jazz Saxophone (Mel Martin)
- Jazz Styles (Mark C. Gridley)
- Music by Genre
- Music Director Helpful Sites
- Musical Thoughts (blog)
- MusicMoz
- Netmusician.org
- notz.com
- Pianist's Guide to the Internet (Rain Music)
- Resources for Musicians, Educators and Music Fans (Ken Davies)
- San Francisco area jazz
- Sleepy Hollow Music (Piano links)
- Software Development compared to Jazz
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- Vocal Jazz Resource
- WikiPedia Links
- Worldwide Jazz Knowledge Wiki (Portland Jazz Jams)
- WorldJazz
- Yahoo links
Organizations
- Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation (book list)
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO)
- American Music Preservation.com
- American Songbook Preservation Society
- BMI jazz
- California Alliance for Jazz
- Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
- International Archives for the Jazz Organ (IAJO)
- International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers (IeAKM)
- International Association for Schools of Jazz (IASJ)
- International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM)
- Jazz Foundation of America
- Jazz Education Network (JEN)
- Jazz Journalists Association
- Jazz Museum in Harlem
- Los Angeles Jazz Society
- National Association for Music Education
- National Piano Foundation
- New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
- Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
- rec.music.makers.jazz
- rec.music.bluenote
- School for Improvisational Music (SIM)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Society for Music Theory
- Traditional Jazz Educators' Network (TJEN, includes fakebook links for traditional jazz)
Miscellaneous
- Your Brain on Jazz
- All About Jazz (magazine)
- Experience the Jazz Age (zzounds.com links)
- Giant Steps animated (Michal Levy)
- A Great Day in Harlem (Photo by Art Kane, 1959)
- InterJazz (Web hosting)
- Jazz Fonts
- jazzography.com (Bob Barry Photography)
- Jazz Quotes
- jazzreview.com
- Staff and tab paper
Musicians and Composers
Critics and Journalists
Trumpet Stuff
- Rune Aleksandersen
- Paul Ayick (vintage brass)
- Arbanbook.com
- John Blount
- Eric Bolvin
- Brass Resources
- Bud Brisbois (Brian Vessey)
- R. Jones Trumpet Page
- Morrison Digital Trumpet
- jazztrumpet.com
- Flip Oakes Trumpets
- Trumpet Gearhead (Jim Donaldson)
- GR Mouthpieces
- Hession's Sessions
- Hylton Adcroft's Trumpet Centre
- horntrader.com
- Some Ins and Outs of Breathing
- Maggio System
- Jazz Trumpet Clinic Notes (Jeff Helgesen)
- O.J.'s Trumpet Page
- Screamin' (Bill Carmichael)
- Shulman System
- Nick Drozdoff
- TPIN (Trumpet Player's International Network)
- trumpetblog.com
- trumpetplayer.net (Donovan Bankhead)
- Robert King Music
- screamTrumpet.com
- Trumpet Physics
- Virtual Trumpet
- Trumpet WebRing
Workshops
- The Banff Centre
- Berklee in L.A. (Fullerton)
- Centrum Jazz Workshop (Port Townsend, Washington)
- Howard Rees Jazz Workshops (Toronto, Barry Harris video)
- Interplay Jazz Workshop (Woodstock, VT)
- Jamey Aebersold (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Jam Camp (Ephraim, Utah)
- JazzCamp West (La Honda, California)
- Litchfield Jazz Camp (Litchfield, Connecticut)
- Skidmore Jazz Institute (Saratoga Springs, New York)
- Stanford Jazz Workshop (Stanford, California)
- Summer Jazz Guitar Intensive (NYU)
- UCSD Jazz Camp (San Diego)
- Jazz Vermont (Killington)
- Vermont Jazz Center (Green Mountain)
- Jim Widner Big Band
- Mark Levine's review of several workshops
Discussion Groups
Academic Articles
- Current Research in Jazz online
- Jazz Studies Online / The Jazz Review
- An Investigation into the Operation of Swing in Jazz (Robert Abel)
- Techniques for Algorithmic Composition of Music (Adam Alpern)
- Bill Evans Jazz Resources
- Blues for Gary: Design Abstractions for a Jazz Improvisation Assistant (Keller, et al.)
- John Coltrane (Garry J. Bertholf)
- Musical Intelligence (David Cope)
- Improvisation and Learning (Judy A. Franklin)
- The Making of The Real Book, and other articles (Barry Kernfeld)
- An Artificially Intelligent Jazz Performer (Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Geber Ramalho and Pierre-Yves Rolland)
- Harmonic-Melodic Diagrams (David Canright)
- The Improvisational Vocabulary of Pepper Adams (Aaron Lington's DM Dissertation)
- Improvising Jazz Chord Sequences by Means of Formal Grammars (Marc Chemillier)
- The Spiral Array: An Algorithm For Determining Key Boundaries (Elaine Chew)
- Sounding the Full Circle (Malcolm Goldstein)
- JIG: Jazz Improvisation Generator (Maarten Grachten)
- COMPOzE Intention-based Music Composition through Constraint Programming (Henz, Lauer, Zimmermann)
- A Model of Performance, Interaction, and Improvisation (Hudak and Berger)
- How Jazz Musicians Improvise (P. N. Johnson-Laird)
- A Computational Framework Enhancing Jazz Creativity (Keller, Jones, Morrison, Thom, and Wolin)
- A Grammatical Approach to Automatic Improvisation (Keller and Morrison)
- The Metaphysics of Jazz (James O. Young and Carl Matheson)
- Musica (Music and Science Information Computer Archive)
- Surprising Harmony (Franois Pachet, 1999)
- AI and music from composition to expressive performance (Ramon Lopez de Mantaras)
- Cognition in Jazz Improvisation: An Exploratory Study (Mendonca and Wallace)
- Machine Musicianship References (Robert Rowe)
- Mind, Musical Improvisation, and the Body: The Microgenesis of Jazz Improvisation (Jay Seitz)
- BoB: an interactive improvisational music companion (Belinda Thom)
- Learning Models for Interactive Melodic Improvisation (Belinda Thom)
- A Computer Participant in Musical Improvisation (William F. Walker, 1997)
- Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (William A. Sethares)
- Understanding Jazz Styles through Sociolinguistic Models (James McGowan)
- ImproViz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations (Snydal and Hearst)
- Jazz Transformations of the ii7-V7-I Progression (Dariusz Terefenko, 2009)
- A Pattern-Based Software Framework for Computer Aided Jazz Improvisation (Johnathan Klein)
- Music as a Tool in Communications Research (Benjaman Schogler)
- Music IR Bibliography (Donald Byrd)
- Tuning and Temprament Bibliography(Huygens-Fokker Foundation)
- Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising
- MySong (Microsoft Research)
- Exploring the Use of a Single Formula in Grant Green's First Chorus Improvisation on I'll Remember April (Andrew Scott, 1961)
- UCLA Copyright Infringement Project
- Work of Dmitri Tymoczko
- The Harmonic Language of the Beatles (KG Johansson)