Links & Information Resources

All Music Guide: Huge website with thousands of biographies and discographies
Musicweb Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Thousands of comprehensive articles
ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Down Beat.com: Website of the famous jazz magazine
Jazz Discography.com: Jazz discographies created with the Brian application
Red Hot Jazz Archive: A history of jazz before 1930
Big Bands & Big Names: Reviews from the 1950s by Robert W Dana
Pollstar: worldwide concert tour schedules
The Guardian Archive Search: British newspaper archive
The Big-bands Database: Bands, jazz, and swing history
A Passion for Jazz: Music history and education
The William P Gottlieb Collection: Jazz photographs at the US Library of Congress
International Association for Jazz Education: Jazz related projects and publications
New York Sheet Music Society: Photos, features & links
Bill Reed: Music Weblog

Solid!: Online encyclopedia of lounge, big band, classic jazz and space-age sounds
BBC Radio 2 Music Search: Biographies and audio samples
Space Age Pop: Exotica, lounge, strange, & easy listening
The African American Registry: Online encyclopedia of Black history
NPR Jazz Profiles: Online radio-show summaries
NPR Jazz: The US National Public Radio jazz site
BBC Jazz Profiles: By Alyn Shipton
BBC Music: Easy & soundtracks
Swing Music: Swing music from the 1930s to today
Jazz Review: guide to jazz on the web
Open Directory: Bands & artists
Mr Lucky: Music for grown-ups
The Jazz Site UK: A voice for jazz
Music Sites: Wide ranging music directory
Songdex: Directory of standard songs

Singers’ Websites