Recommended WWW Sites: Jazz         

Groups hundreds of primary artists into  ten jazz subgenres: early jazz, swing, bebop, 
cool jazz, hard bop, freeform/avant-garde, fusion, and Latin jazz. 
Each of the hundreds of artist pages includes a discography, a biography, album reviews, 
and, most importantly, up to fifteen selected representative albums with one-minute 
Real Audio samples of six tracks from each album. 

URL:  http://www.sonicnet.com/allmusic/

Links to ECM, GRP, Blue Note, and forty more.  
Courtesy of Northwestern University.

URL: http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/labels.html

All About Jazz! The Internet Guide to Jazz and Blues

  A very comprehensive and active site featuring something for both 
 the listener and the practitioner. Features audio downloads, interviews, 
 signed (and knowledgeable) reviews, streaming video, forums, and the amusing 
 "Gig From Hell" section for working musicians. 

 URL:  http://allaboutjazz.com/

Not only the renowned magazine online but solo transcriptions, digital downloads, 
jazz history, artist profiles, etc.etc.

URL: http://www.downbeat.com/

Includes: Artist Q&A, streaming audio, audio downloads, streaming video concerts, 
and "Jazz 101", an interactive introduction to many styles and movements including 
cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, fusion, vocal jazz, and avant-garde.

URL: http://www.jazzonline.com 

Mark Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer

 

 Covers scales, chords, comping, bass lines, etc. etc. 
 Also includes jazz history, a bibliography and a discography.

Master vibraphonist Gary Burton presents an annotated list of his favorite links.  

URL:  http://www.garyburton.com/GBlinks.html