Music

Merged into American Song package in 2009.  16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from the Library of Congresss historical collection, includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, narratives and other genres. (An Alexander Street Press streaming music database.)

Historical recordings from the Library of Congress

From CBC Radio more than 850 concerts available as streaming audio, including 99 devoted to Canadian composers, 186 devoted to classical music, 107 to jazz, and 102 to world music

Online textbook by jazz musician Marc Sabatella, with information on all topics related to jazz improvisation.

A robust website/blogzine geared to both the knowledgeable jazz listener and the novice who wants to know more about  jazz.

A centennial celebration of the life and music of Count Basie (Rutgers University Site)

Section of the American Memory Stie, Library of Congress.

This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael.

A history of jazz before 1930.

Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943.  From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

The Hogan Jazz Archive, a department within Tulane University's Special Collections Division is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research. Our collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, and sheet music and orchestrations. We also maintain files of manuscripts, clippings, and bibliographic references.

(Standford University) Features some of the greatest jazz and blues musicians of the 20th century, the collection includes more than 9,000 performances, interviews, oral histories, photos, posters, programs, and so on

Linked Jazz is a research project investigating the application of Linked Open Data technologies to digital cultural heritage materials