Click on the links below for information on Jazz Education, Festivals, Artist, Books, and more …
Jazz Education Links
The Artists Collective (Hartford, CT)
Connecticut Music Educators Association
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (Hartford, CT)
Hall High School Jazz Program (West Hartford, CT)
Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz – University of Hartford (Hartford, CT)
Litchfield Jazz Camp (New Milford, CT)
New Haven Improvisers Collective (New Haven, CT)
University of Connecticut – Jazz Studies (Storrs, CT)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (New York City)
Jazz at Saint Peter’s Church (New York City)
Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York City)
Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies (New York City)
Manhattan School of Music (New York City)
Purchase College (State University of New York)
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (New York City)
Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead (The Kennedy Center)
International Association of Schools of Jazz
International Association for Jazz Education
Jazz in America: The National Curriculum (Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz)
National Association for Music Education
Smithsonian Jazz (Washington, DC)
The Stanford Jazz Workshop (Stanford, CA)
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Washington, DC)
Traditional Jazz Educators Network
Jazz Festivals
Branford Jazz on the Green – June 27 – August 22 2024, Branford
Bridgeport Jazz Festival – August 31, 2024, Bridgeport
Eastern CT Jazz Festival – June 1, 2024, Griswold
Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz July 19-21 2024, Hartford
Litchfield Jazz Festival July 26-28 2024, Washington
Manchester-CT Jazz Festival – December 7, 2024 – Manchester
Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz – July 8 – August 12 2024, Hartford
Blue Note Jazz Festival – New York City
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT
Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) – New York City
Freihofer’s Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY
Martha’s Vineyard Jazz and Blues Summerfest Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Montclair Jazz Festival – Montclair, NJ
Monterey Jazz Festival – Monterey, CA
Newport Jazz Festival – Newport, RI
Northampton Jazz Festival – Northampton, MA
Northwest Jazz Festival – Lewiston, NY
NYC Winter JazzFest – New York City
Pittsfield CityJazz Festival – Pittsfield,MA
Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival – Springfield, MA
Vision Festival (New York City) New York City
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY
Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium – Guelph, Ontario, Canada
International Jazz Festival of Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Victoriaville Jazz Festival Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada
Artists, Books, Cruises, Interviews, Podcasts
All Music Guide (enter name of artist in search screen)
Basic Jazz Record Library (NPR)
Biographies (NPR)
Down Beat’s Directory of Artists
William P. Gottlieb Collection of Photographs
Interviews (Transcripts) (NPR)
Jazz Corner
Jazz Discography Project
Jazz Profiles from NPR (Nancy Wilson)
The Jazz Web (Northwestern University)
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
NPR Jazz
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis
Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time by Lorraine Gordon
American Music Is by Nat Hentoff
Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People by Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson
Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954 – 2001 by Whitney Balliett
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America by Elaine Keillor, Tim Archambault and John M. H. Kelly (preview of chapter on jazz)
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations by Sanford Josephson
Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn
Miles, the Autobiography by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe
Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington
Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe’s Reinvention of Jazz by Mike Heffley
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong by Gary Giddins
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne by James Gavin
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930 – 1945 by Gunther Schuller
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley
To Be, Or Not . . . to Bop by Dizzy Gillespie, Al Fraser
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins
Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century by Gary Giddins
Roy Ayers Interviewed by HJS’s Diana Wimbish at 2017 Playboy Jazz Festival
Dave Holland interviewed by HJS’s Ken Laster from 2009
BBC Radio Jazz Interviews
John Coltrane Interview by Frank Kofsky (1966) excerpts
Jazz Corner InnerViews
Jazz Profiles (NPR)
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (NPR)
WBGO—the Checkout
In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond – Jazz masters of past and present to emerging new artists.
Jazz Beat Podcast – A Jazz and Blues podcast from New England Public Radio.
Straight No Chaser – Interviews, reviews, features and podcasts on jazz of the past, present and future.