Library Guides @ VIU: Music History: Jazz

Selected Websites

Red Hot Jazz Archive
History of jazz before 1930. Includes lists of bands, musicians, and films. Also includes brief biographies of jazz musicians with discographies and suggested readings.
Jazz: A History of America's Music
Companion website to the film series by Ken Burns. Includes timeline, biographies, and audio samples.
Smithsonian Jazz
Collections and educational materials from the Smithsonian Institution. Includes transcripts of oral histories by jazz musicians.

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Ten-part series tracing the history of jazz. Available online via Films on Demand.
Jazz Legends Live
This series presents key players in contemporary jazz music, performing at various locations throughout the U.S. and Europe. Available online via Films on Demand.

Complete Recordings [various jazz musicians]
More than thirty CDs of recordings by important instrumentalists and vocalists in the history of jazz.
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Jazz by Scott DeVeaux; Gary Giddins
Call Number: ML 3508 G54 2009 (Nanaimo campus)

Publication Date: 2009
Keeping Time : Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser (Editor)
Call Number: ML 3507 K4 1999 (Nanaimo campus)

Publication Date: 1999
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
Publication Date: 1997
The Jazz Scene : An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990 by W. Royal Stokes
Publication Date: 1991