AJI is a non-profit organization dedicated to the enrichment and enhancement of the appreciation of jazz music.  AJI seeks to preserve jazz as a national treasure, as well as project a spotlight on America's great jazz composers, arrangers and musicians - both firmly established and newly discovered, from traditional to avant garde.

Though Barnes & Noble is touted as the world's largest online bookseller, their jazz CD lists and prices demands attention. Choose any jazz style (bop, cool, Latin, vocal, fusion, swing, free, many others) or a best seller, even a  new/forthcoming CD release or a box set. A user-friendly jazz book title search, ranked by subject, can be found in the B&N Book Browser by clicking here.

A special collection of rare jazz materials located at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. The CJA's mission is to support research by scholars trained to work with rare and fragile materials -- manuscripts, research notes, brittle photographs, handwritten music, and recordings in obscure formats. Established in 1976, the Archive documents the birth of "Chicago style" jazz from the late 1910s through the 1920s. The Archive supports the research and instructional mission of the University in music, history, anthropology, and sociology, and provides reference services to academic researchers all over the world via its Web site, electronic and standard mail, telephone, and research visits.

The pre-eminent jazz monthly, it remains a true collector's item for all jazz fans.  In the 1930s, before any important book on jazz had yet been written, Down Beat collected the first important body of pre-1935 jazz history.  During 1935 and 1936 Down Beat took a sharp turn from being a parochial little news and gossip sheet to becoming a credible national publication with a solid musician orientation and a particularly keen ear for jazz.  The redoubtable Downbeat Blindfold Test has for years remained one of the most famous columns in the jazz community.

A leading jazz newswire providing jazz-related news, articles, events, forums, reviews, profiles, education, festival info, canadian jazz festivals, jazz topics, music business info, obituaries, technology news, jazz charts, club listings, event calendars, interviews, and music classifieds.

The International Association for Jazz Education promotes the worldwide growth and development of jazz through education and outreach.  IAJE represents thousands of educators, artists, students, and industry members around the world. Besides publishing the monthly Jazz Education Journal, IAJE sponsors an annual conference, produces awards for outstanding artists, provides scholarships, commissions artists and composers, trains teachers, offers workshops, and helps support jazz festivals.  The 35th IAJE International Conference, acknowledged as the largest annual gathering of the global jazz community, will convene January 9-12, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Two hotels, the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and the Intercontinental Toronto Centre, co-host all conference activities including clinics, workshops, artist and clinician showcase performances, awards presentations, panel discussions, and the always expansive IAJE trade show exhibit hall.

Housed at the State University of New Jersey (Newark), the famed jazz repository serves jazz connoisseurs as the largest archive of jazz and jazz related materials in the world. Its mammoth collection includes: Over 100 distinct ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS comprising personal papers as well as archives of record companies and jazz-related institutions and organizations spanning from 1920 to the present; over 100,000 commercial and non-commercial SOUND RECORDINGS consisting of 78 rpm discs, 45 rpm singles and extended-play (EP) discs, 10-inch and 12-inch LP's, and CD's. The collection spans all eras of jazz and includes blues, ragtime, and other jazz-related and jazz-influenced music.  The collection also includes:  More than 30,000 PHOTOGRAPHS taken over nine decades; A collection of ORAL HISTORY MATERIALS, most notably the Jazz Oral History Project of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); some 6,000 BOOKS including practically every book published on jazz, including rare early works; the most comprehensive collection of jazz PERIODICALS due in no small part to the acquisition of the Harold Flakser Collection; and lastly, RESEARCH FILES including clippings from newspapers and general interest publications, press releases and publicity materials, and correspondence.

JAJ publishes and sells the world's most complete selection of jazz education materials.  As a brand name for nearly 40 years, Jamey Aebersold has been literally synonymous with the very best in jazz education materials. This world-class performer and teacher-lecturer has traveled the globe giving seminars and workshops. Aebersold's lifelong mission is to teach people how to play jazz and improvise. Visitor's can also request a complete catalog featuring almost 2,000 hand-picked items.

As the largest jazz portal on the Web, since its founding 10 years ago Jazz Corner aims to level the playing the field for jazz musicians and organizations. It hosts complete jazz websites for more than 180 top jazz musicians, services/organizations, and record companies, as well as jazz news.  Complete Web sites for more than 150 independent musicians, plus the leading jazz speakeasy online, classic interviews, a comprehensive global jazz calendar, photos, reviews, and much more.

For 20 years JAZZIZ has covered the jazz world documenting musical innovations, charting industry trends, hanging with jazz artists. JAZZIZ reports on what's hot (and what's not) thanks to insightful editorials, hundreds of CD reviews, and inspired photography and design.  JAZZIZ also produces JAZZIZ ON DISC, a beautifully packaged CD filled with classic, new and exclusive recordings not available anywhere else.

A weekly glance at a potpourri of hot, new jazz releases, jazz news/PR items and industry announcements.

JazzTimes magazine offers a bold, colorful insight each month into the jazz industry incorporating exclusive cover photography and state of the art graphic design.  It continues to receive accolades as the world's leading jazz publication thanks to extensive news coverage, award-winning jazz writers, CD-video-book reviews, informative features and columns.

National Public Radio's inviting jazz media site features NPR jazz programs, reviews, interviews, a basic jazz library archive, and a streaming NPR radio station list.

The companion PBS television Web site to the acclaimed production by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns celebrates America's greatest original art form with a jubilant soundtrack, archival performance footage, poignant anecdotes, and moving, reflective historical passages supplied by noted jazz celebrities, personalities.

Smithsonian Jazz is a remarkable jazz portal intended to preserve and promote jazz, jazz history and jazz performance through the Smithsonian Institution, including information on jazz exhibits, events, and concerts. The Smithsonian 'Jazz Class' presents bio content on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter.  And, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks (SMJO) Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Appreciation Month, and the SJMO Jazz Education are major site features.