Guides: Music: Jazz

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Listen to jazz through the following streaming audio resources.

Music Online: Jazz Music Library
1.4 million tracks of jazz. Register to create playlists, make clips, share links, cite tracks, and send clips to your mobile phone.
Naxos Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new window
Popular Music Library
More than 8 million tracks of popular music in many genres. Register to create playlists, make clips, share links, cite tracks, and send clips to your mobile phone.

Find articles on historical and the latest jazz research.

Jazz perspectives (full text journal, 2007 - )
A forum for promoting cross-disciplinary scholarly dialogue across the academic jazz community.
Jazzis (full text journal, 1998 - )
Articles on jazz performers and composers, with reviews.
Journal of jazz studies (full text, 1996 - )
A forum for the ever-expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history, to bibliography, to cultural interpretation.
The wire (full text journal, 1982 - )
Concentrates on multiple jazz CD reviews and New music charts.

Jazzwax (open website)
Award-winning daily jazz blog by journalist Marc Myers, containing interviews with musicians, comments on rare and contemporary jazz recordings, and performance reviews.

Music Online Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
Contemporary World Music database.
Includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world.