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Musicians

Louis Armstrong
http://www.louis-armstrong.net/ — essentially a site promoting
http://www.satchography.com/ — online discography

Albert Ayler
http://www.ayler.supanet.com/

Clifford Brown
www.brownradio.com/cbjf.htm — Clifford Brown Jazz Foundation
free.prohosting.com/~jmh/clifford5.shtml — Leonard Feather interviews Brownie's wife

John Coltrane
www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/9753 — claims to have the "most complete discography on the Internet"
http://www.saintjohncoltrane.org/ — website of the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in San Francisco

Miles Davis
www.wam.umd.edu/~losinp/music/miles_ahead.html — "Miles Ahead", a database driven website with an exhaustive discography, including a detailed archive of Parker discs on which Miles appears
http://www.jan-lohmann.com/ — "The Sound of Miles Davis", a site run by Jan Lohmann, author of the most complete Miles discography in existence

Eric Dolphy
farcry.neurobio.pitt.edu/Eric.html — "Outward Bound", a really geeky-looking site, with good content and a meticulous discography

Duke Ellington
www.cmgww.com/music/ellington/intro.html — good fan site
duke.fuse.net/duke.html — the Duke Ellington Society website

Herbie Hancock
home.t-online.de/home/stamil/hhdisco.htm — massively detailed (though incomplete) Hancock discography

Billie Holiday
users.bart.nl/~ecduzit/billie.htm — chaotic and rather roughly designed site, but full of good pics; describes itself as "unofficial"

J.J. Johnson
http://www.jjjohnson.org/ — good J.J. Johnson site, supported by the man himself

Charlie Mingus
http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/ — the "official" site

Thelonious Monk
http://www.monkzone.com/ the "official" site with webcasts, images, and a store.

home.achilles.net/~howardm/25.shtml — endless amounts of Monk-related material

Charlie Parker
http://www.charlieparker.com/ — contains good links page on Bird

Horace Silver
hardbop.tripod.com/silver_discography.html — comprehensive discography with interviews and other resources, part of the excellent Hard Bop Hompage run by Eric B. Olsen

Discussion groups

Google Groups rec.music.bluenote

Google Groups rec.music.jazz

Google Groups rec.music.makers.jazz

Jazzcorner's Speakeasy — possibly the most comprehensive and in-depth jazz discussion area on the Internet

Yahoo! Groups Hard Bop

Yahoo! Groups Miles Davis

Yahoo! Groups Thelonious Monk

Jazz photographers

William P. Gottlieb
http://www.jazzphotos.com/ — photos from The Golden Age of Jazz

Herman Leonard
http://www.hermanleonard.com/ — the fantastic photographs of Herman Leonard

Mosaic Gallery
http://www.mosaicgallery.com/ — several photographers' pictures exhibited

Bob Parent
http://www.jazzpix.com/ — the Bob Parent photo archive

Helen Mandel
http://www.ahhajazz.com/ — the Helen Mandel photo archive

General jazz sites

All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ — "The Internet Guide to Jazz": great on news, gigs, releases, interviews, bios

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/ — actually not a jazz site, but almost certainly the world's most comprehensive online music catalogue

Contemporary Jazz
http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/ — reviews of recent releases, discussion groups, forums etc.

Dark Funk
http://www.darkfunk.com/ — site dedicated to jazz-funk, with good selection of streaming RealAudio files

Downbeat
http://www.downbeat.com/ — the famous magazine online

Epistrophy
www.ualberta.ca/~mborshuk/jazz.htm — "the jazz literature archive"

Jazz Corner
http://www.jazzcorner.com/ — excellent website, with major in-depth discussion area called "Speakeasy"

Jazz Grrls
www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/2124/instru.htm — "a list of jazz women on the web"

Innerviews
http://www.innerviews.org/ — excellent in-depth interviews with numerous jazz musicians, run by Anil Prasad

Jazz Links
www.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/jazzlinks/_main.html — geeky page with loads of links

jazz.pagina.nl
jazz.pagina.nl — good dutch page with lots of links to musicians' sites

Jazz Promo
http://www.jazzpromo.com/ — great jazz resource

Jazz Review
http://www.jazzreview.com/ — major resource for jazz, contains great archive of streaming audio interviews with artists past and present

Jazzspot
http://www.jazzspot.com/ — slightly chaotic compendium of material: "where jazz meets art"

JazzTimes
http://www.jazztimes.com/ — the JazzTimes magazine website

Oxford University Press Jazz Archive
http://www.oup-usa.org/jazz/ — excellent source for many of the best jazz books

MAMA Foundation
http://www.mamajazz.org/ — non-profit organisation dedicated to "preserving the music of culturally significant artists"

Red Hot Jazz
http://www.redhotjazz.com/ — archive of jazz before 1930

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