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Bob Keller's Jazz Page

Welcome to my jazz page. It contains stuff to which I want to refer and to which I refer my students. (A few others have found it useful as well.) I apologize for any broken links. If you send me (k e l l e r @ h mc . e d u) a note, I'll remove them.

News

Free Bill Evans Tribute Concert, Film, and Master Class at Harvey Mudd College, November 19, 2017
Try Version 10 of our free software tool for the improviser: Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor).
The Joy of Fakebooks (and Fakebook Review)
Playing one of my original tunes, "Benny's Dream" (video)
Bud Powell Resources (Google spreadsheet)

Table of Contents

Academic Articles
Books, Charts, and Music off the Web
Calculators
California Music Stores
Chords and Scales
Critics and Journalists
Discs and Products
Discussion Groups
Explanations of Jazz
Instruction off the Web
Instruction on the Web
Instruments
Links

Miscellaneous
Musicians and Composers
Music on the Web
Music Software
Organizations
Periodicals
Radio Stations
Theory
Trumpet Stuff
Tunes
Venues
Workshops
Harvey Mudd College Music 84 Syllabus

Tunes
- ACE Database (ASCAP)
- Aebersold Tune Index (pdf, download)
- List of songs in Aebersold Play-A-Long series
- Classic Themes .com (categorizations by composer, etc.)
- Comprehensive Index of Jazz Sheet Music
- Jazz Standards with keys, etc.
- List of 1000 Jazz Standards
- Los Angeles Public Library)
- midomi.com (Tune search from audio)
- Second Hand Songs (cover database)
- Songs - Web Resources
- 100 Tunes to Know (jazztrumpet.com)
- Stan Getz Library Leadsheet Book Index (Berklee College of Music)
- University of Washington Popular Song Index
- List of Music Indexes (Long Island University)
Music on the Web
- Audio
  - Audio Snippets (Jazz in America)
  - Real Book Listening Guide
- Indexes
  - Fake Books and Real Books
    - Fakebook Review (Google spreadsheet)
    - Bob Keller's Fakebook Index (Google spreadsheet)
    - Jass Standards A to Z (compiled by Glenn Betcher)
    - Charles Anderson Tune Data
    - Fake Book Index (Seventh String)
    - Fakebook Database (SUNY Buffalo)
    - Fake Books with tables of contents (Playjazz)
    - Fake book Finder
    - Real Book Site (original, with tracks)
  - Lyrics
    - heptune lyrics
    - song-list.net
- Chord Changes
  - Chord Charts that Transpose (how to use)
  - Burtie's Chord Book (MS Word .doc files)
  - Guitar Backing Tracks
  - iGigBook
  - iRealPro (formerly iRealBook, then iRealb)
  - MyRealBook.com
  - SongTrellis
  - Vanilla Book of chord changes (Ralph Patt)
    - Tunes categorized by tonal center
- Charts and Sheets
  - Cadenza Music (previewable scores)
  - Find Free Sheet Music.com
  - greatscores.com
  - wwww.jobim.org (Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  - musicnotes.com
  - pdfjazzmusic.com
  - Sheet Music Direct
  - 8notes.com
- Jazz Discogrphies (jdisco.org)
- Jazz Discography (jazzdiscography.com)
- Leadsheets
  - Dave McCrea Leadsheets and BIAB files
  - Electronic Real Book
  - The Guitar Guy (lyrics with chords)
  - Hoagy Carmichael (Indiana University Collections)
  - jazzleadsheets.com
  - Jim's Fakebook (reharmonizations)
  - jazzpla.net (scanned leadsheets from fakebooks, Russian)
  - Kyle's Project
  - Leadsheet Notation
  - Bert Ligon Compositions
  - "Greatest Little Jazz Book" (Red Book)
  - New Orleans JamBook
- MIDI
  - Hammersound sound fonts
  - Jam Central (MIDI play-along tracks)
  - Jazz Midi Links (dmoz)
  - LAKH MIDI Dataset
  - MAHAMIDI --- Midi Files of John Mclaughlin
  - MIDI Explorer (search engine)
  - MidiWorld
  - notz midi files
  - Sheet Music
  - World Jazz midi files
  - TheJazzPage
  - Jazz Progressions (musicstudents.com)
  - vanbasco.com (Searchable Midi Files)
- MP3
  - John Amato's Backing Tracks List
  - Beatriz Kauffman's Web Site (Brazilian music)
  - jazzpromo.com (free MP3's)
  - MP3 Review
  - Nuages du Swing (french)
  - Gypsy jazz backing tracks
  - Playalongstudio.com (free backing tracks, by Lee Griffith)
  - PlayAlongJazz.com
  - soundclick.com
- Music Library Association (Collections)
- PlayJazzNow Play-Alongs (commercial)
- Practice Loops
- reallygoodmusic.com
- Musicovery.com
- Pandora
- Song Finder
- Spotify
- Transcriptions
  - Armand Reynaud Transcriptions
  - alisdair.com
  - Barking Munchkin (Pat Martino and other guitar solo transcriptions)
  - Bass Transcriptons
  - Bert Ligon's Transcriptions
  - Bossa Nova Guitar (Jason Brazile)
  - Bud Powell Solos
  - Cannonball Adderly solos
  - C.Mark Halberstadt's Transcriptions in Eb key
  - Effective Solo Transcription (Jeff Helgesen)
  - Free Jazz Institute Transcriptions
  - Guitar Transcriptions (Joerg Heuser)
  - Guy Boistel
  - Dmitri Tymoczko (Chord Geometry)
  - How to Transcribe (Seventh String Software)
  - jazzcenter.org
  - Jazz&Archtops (Brent Stuntzner Guitar Transcriptions)
  - Jazz Education Database
  - Jazzomat Research Project
  - Jazz transcriptions.co.uk
  - Jazznote.co.uk Jazz Transcription Service (Andrew Barton)
  - jazzTrumpetSolos.com
  - Jeff's trumpet solo transcriptions, etc.
  - Wolf Marshall's Guitarland
  - mindformusic.com
  - Lucas Pickford
  - Massimo Morrone transcriptions
  - Piano Madness (Colin Campbell)
  - Sax Solos (saxsolos.com)
  - Scooby-Sax Transcriptions
  - Steve Kahn (transcriptions, etc.)
  - EJMA Transcription Site
  - Evan Samuels
  - Transcription Links (MoneyChords.com)
  - saxopedia.com
  - Transcription Pool
  - Transcription Service (John McGann)
  - Transcriptions and Patterns (Charles McNeal)
  - Steve Neff Transcriptions
  - Barry Usher, Sax transcriptions
  - Nick Walters' Transcriptions
  - Trumpet Transcriptions (Jacques & Claude Gilbert)
  - Pascal Wetzel's HomePage (Bill Evans Transcriptions)
  - Yuval Shay-El Transcriptions
- Titles
  - Gold Standard Song List (interactive explorer of tunes by genre and decade)
- Videos
  - Jazz Videos (from All About Jazz)
  - Collection of Jazz Video (Bob Kaster)
  - Videos from ArtistsHouseMusic.org
  - Doug McKenzie (piano videos with scores)
  - Jazz on the Tube (search engine)
Calculators
- Barry Harris' Scale Reminder
- Brian's huge chordlist collection (for string instruments)
- ChordSounder
- ChordTree
- Circle of Fifths
- Hexagon chord calculator
- chordify.net
- Chord Progression Generator
- Chord Voicing Calculator (Mathematica-based)
- Scales and Chords (Brian Blood)
- ChordWizard spreadsheet (fretted instruments)
- Interchart (Interactive Chord and Scale Chart)
- Guitar-oriented calculators (wiki)
- Interval Class Vector Calculuator
- Michael Norris various calculators (dissonance, harmonic series, etc.)
- musictheory.net (Animated theory lessons, trainers, chord calculators)
- Piano and Guitar Chords and Scales
- Scale Calculator and Chord Calculator (guitar-oriented)
- ScaleMaster (rogame.com)
- Set Theory (musical set theory)
- Spectral and Roughness Analyzer (SRA)
- Themefinder
- Theta Music Trainer (Tonic Finder, etc.)
- Virtual Piano Chords (A Passion for Jazz)
- VisiChord (Chord sequence visualizer developed at HMC)
Music Software
- abc format
- Ars Nova Software
- Audacity
- Band-in-a-Box (PG Music)
  - BIAB Files (Wesley Dick)
  - BIAB links (Alisdair Macrae Birch)
  - Django in a Box
  - MIDI Studio Consortium
  - mmissary BIAB files
  - Norton Music (BIAB disks)
  - Tutorial (Larry Bolch)
  - BIAB file converter
- Bol Processor BP2
- Burnie's List (virtual instruments)
- Chordino and NNLS Chroma
- ChordPulse (Windows)
- ChordSmith
- Common Music Notation (Lisp-based)
- Denemo (music notator)
- Finale
- forte (notation software)
- FreeMusicSoftware.org
- Freebyte Music Software (links)
- GenJam
- gmorgan (sequencer for Linux)
- GUIDO NoteServer
  - Keyboard Interface
- Groove Builder
- Haskore (Paul Hudak)
- Humdrum
- Indaba Music
- Internet Jamming (ejamming.com)
- Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor)
- JAM (Windows)
- Jammer (Windows)
- SoftSynth Links
- jFugue
- jMusic
- Java Music Specification Language (JMSL)
- Jazz Scale Suggestor
- Leadsheet Notation (pure text notation for leadsheets)
- Interval Name Trainer (Joe Walker)
- GNU Lily Pond
- Melody Assistant (Myriad Software)
- Harmony Navigator
- Hooktheory
- Max/MSP
  - Pure Data
  - jMax
- Maximum Musician.com
- MIDI Illustrator
- MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment)
  - LeMMA (editor)
- Mup (Arkkra Enterprises)
- MusicDevelopments (RapidComposer)
- MusES (Francois Pachet)
- Musipedia
- Music Notation Links
- Music Notation Software
- MuseScore
- MusicXML
- NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format)
- NinJam (real-time music collaboration software)
- noteflight.com
- ocmusic.com (a variety of tools for piano, guitar, etc., Ontario Conservatory)
- Progressionator (progression-generator)
- PLUM (Progamming Languages Used for Music)
- Random Chord Generator
- Robin Schmidt's Music Engineering Tools
- Score Writer (GenieSoft)
- shortchord.org
- Sibelius
- SmartMusic
- SuperCollider (programming language)
- Symbolic Composer
- Theta Music Trainer (several ear-training games)
- THoTH (chord/scale analysis)
- TuxGuitar (Guitar tab and playback)
- Transcription software
  - Amazing SlowDowner
  - Capo 2 for Mac
  - intelliScore (audio to MIDI)
  - Slow Gold, Slow Blast!
  - Transcribe!
  - Transkriber (Reed Kotler)
- tuneblocks
- ujam.com
- Yamaha Keyboard Resource Site
Explanations of Jazz
- How to Listen to Jazz
- Jazz Continuum (Graham Collier)
- Jazz Improvisation and Organizing: Once More from the Top
- So You Wanna Learn about Jazz?
- What Is Jazz? (Billy Taylor)
Instruction on the Web
- Aebersold's Jazz Handbook
- Dan Haerle material
- All About Jazz
- Bass Line Construction
  - James Walker
- Blues Harmonica
- Cello Companion Archive
- Chord Changes
  - Cadences (MIDI files)
  - Jazz Notes
  - Giant Steps Changes (Bob Keller)
  - Giant Steps Progression and Cycle Diagrams (Dan Adler)
  - Reno De Stefano (ii-V resolutions, Wes Montgomery, etc.)
  - Rhythm Changes
    - Rhythm Changes
    - What are "Rhythm Changes"?
    - Some Ideas for Playing Over Rhythm Changes (Carlos Barrientos)
    - Tunes based on
    - Not all Rhythm Changes Are Alike (Bob Keller)
  - Turnarounds
    - Eric Nemeyer
    - MoneyChords
- Chord Melody (John Amato)
- Easy Chord Melody (Will Kriski)
- Common Sounds Found in Jazz
- Dave Liebman's Educational Articles
- Glossaries
  - Etymology of "jazz"
  - Berklee Glossary
  - Definitions
  - Glossary (from aPassion4Jazz)
  - Glossary with hyperlinked examples (Joe Craig, cyberschool for music)
  - Glossary of Jazz Terms
  - Theory Glossary
- Grove Dictionary on-line
- Guitar
  - About Guitar (Good general artcles on chord structure)
  - Between the Licks (Bryan Helmig)
  - BobRussellGuitar.com
  - Fingerings
  - Freak Guitar
  - Guitar Chalk
  - Guitar Links (Moneychords)
  - Guitar Tricks
  - Jazz Guitar Handbook
  - Jazz Guitar Starting Right (Dave Woods)
  - Jazz Guitar Workshop (Steve Carter)
  - Power Chords
  - truefire.com
  - UbiGuitar
- History
  - Jazz Histroy Online
  - Jazz History (Info Please)
  - International Jazz History Database
  - Noal Cohen's Jazz History Web Site
  - TimeLines
    - Hyper Music History of Jazz
    - Timeline from the Jazz Resource Library
  - Jazz Roots
  - Knowledge Web
  - Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Improvisation
  - Cutting the Changes (Antonio J. Garcia)
    - Handout
    - Garcia educator articles
  - jkchang.com (Bebop Cookbook)
  - MIDI Backing Tracks for Various Modes (Music Teacher's Resource)
  - Backing tracks for various changes (commercial: jazznbluestracks.com/, free tutorials)
  - Berklee Shares.com
  - Dave's Jazz Tracks
  - GoodVibes jazz solos (commercial)
  - Guide Tone Lines
  - Two Diatonic Superimpositions in Woody Shaw's Solo on "What is This Thing Called Love" (Keith Karns)
  - How To Improvise Jazz Melodies (Bob Keller)
  - How To Key-Map a Tune (Bob Keller)
  - How to improvise on the saxophone (wikiHow)
  - iBreatheMusic Forum
  - I was doing all right
  - Impro-Visor (Jazz Improvisation Advisor) d
  - Improvising as a Lost Art (William Harris)
  - Improvisation in the Eighteenth Century (Martin Maner)
  - JazzAdvice.com
    - Visualization for Jazz Improvisation
  - Jazz Woodshed (for beginning bassists)
  - How Jazz Pianists Practice (Ted Rosenthal)
  - Jazz Improvisation Primer (Mark Sabatella)
  - Andy Middleton
  - musicstudents.com
  - Jazz Theory and Improvisation (Pete Thomas)
  - Lee Konitz on Improvisation
  - the improvisor (free improvisation)
  - Musilsophy Improvisation Open Project
  - Simon Purcell
  - David Valdez
  - Variation Techniques for Composers and Improvisors (Larry Solomon)
  - TransJam WebDrum (networked group improvisation)
- Interval Recognition Songs
- Jazz articles (Frank Singer)
- Jazz Resource Center (chords, scales, voicings, transcriptions)
- Jazz-Sax.com
- jazztrumpet.com (Pete Estabrook's site)
- Jazz Fiddle Wizard
- Jazz Resource Library (Monk Institute)
- Jazz Styles
- Just Jazz Guitar
- The Language of Modern Jazz Music (Shai Cohen)
- "Lego Bricks" Method
  - The New Guide to Harmony with Lego Bricks (Conrad Cork)
  - Insights in Jazz (John Elliott, dropback.co.uk)
  - Lego Field Guide (Bob Keller)
  - Scrambled Lego Bricks
  - Phil Clark's "Book of Lego" (posted with permission)
  - Impro-Visor 5.03 versions of Roadmaps in "Insights in Jazz" (work in progress)
- Lessons and Education
  - Dave Frank Jazz
  - FreeJazzLessons.com
  - bassically.net Bass lessons
  - Games
    - Chord Constructor
    - Strike-a-Chord
  - JazClass (Michael Furstner)
  - Jazz Education Database
  - Jazz Exercises for 5-String Banjo (useful for all instruments)
  - Lesson Central (Vision Music, guitar oriented, but generally useful)
  - Lessons by:
    - Jeff Brent (piano voicings, etc.)
    - Rod Goelz (bass, guitar)
    - Tomas Karlsson (large set of jazz topics)
    - Lucas Pickford (discussion of scales)
    - Bob Russell (guitar)
    - www.pego.be
    - Willie Thomas (Jazz Everyone)
    - Matt Warnock (general, but guitar oriented)
  - Online Music Degree
  - Piano
    - Bill Cunliffe's Blog
    - Doug McKenzie
    - JazzPiano OnLine
    - Educational Piano Resources
    - Learn Jazz Piano (Scott Ranney)
    - Learn-to-play-piano-online
    - lot2learn.com (Roger Friedman)
    - Music and You (jazz piano lessons)
    - Piano Basics (Edly Roseman)
    - PianoBible.com (index to videos by tune)
    - pianologist.com
    - PianoNanny
    - JazzPianoLessons.com (Willie Myette)
  - SoundFly.com Courses
  - TrumpetFish (Introductory exercises)
- Licks
  - BopLand.org
  - Jazz Educational Material (Mike Nelson)
- Making your Lines Sound More Like Jazz (Guitar-oriented, Alisdair MacRae Birch)
- Money Chords (progressions, etc., guitar oriented)
- Music in Our World
- Music Novatory
- Musiciansnews.com
- Percussion
  - TapSpace
- Piano
  - How Jazz Pianists Practice (Ted Rosenthal)
  - pianomaster.es
  - pianoworld.com
- Ronan Guilfoyle (essays, books)
- planete-jazz.com (French)
- Saxophone
  - Mel Martin's Jazz and Saxophone Website
  - Miles Osland (Saxophone)
  - saxontheweb.net
  - saxshed.com
- Theory
  - Bimodalism
  - Dmoz links
  - Google Directory
  - FreeJazzInstitute.org
  - Harmonic Series (Catherine Schmidt-Jones)
  - Jazz Theory I & II (Hiroaki Honshuku)
  - Dr. Justin Henry Rubin
  - Musiciansnews.com
  - The Scale Omnibus
  - Star Theory
- Secrets of Songwriting
- "St. Thomas" Analysis (Steve Kahn)
- Understanding Music Theory (Catherine Schmidt-Jones)
- University of South Carolina Materials (Bert Ligon)
- Vocal
  - Solfege (Wikipedia)
  - Tips on Popular Singing (Frank Sinatra)
  - Rhiannon
  - Michele Weir
  - jazzvocal.com
  - Vocal Visions
- Voicings
  - Chris Fitzgerald
  - Jazz Instruction Downloads (Paul Prinzler)
- WholeNote.com (somewhat guitar-oriented)
- Wilktone (David Wilken)
Instruction Off the Web
- Harrison School of Music
- JazzBeat.com (Mike Longo)
- Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
- jazzmobile (Billy Taylor)
- Jazz Piano Study Letter
- Jazz Trumpet Consortium
- JazzU (St. Louis, MO)
- Jimmy Bruno Guitar Workshop (Guitar)
- Rafael Mendez Brass Institute
- The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
- Nightbird Music (Jazzmaster workout, Jim Grantham)
- Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
- Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute
- Young Lions Jazz Conservatory
Books, Charts, and Music off the Web
- Abstract Logix (guitar-oriented)
- activemusician.com
- Advance Music
- Jamey Aebersold
- All Music Methods .com
- Amazon Listmania
  - Improvisation Techniques
  - Jazz learning resources
- Berklee College Bookstore
- Big list of jazz books (with links to amazon.com)
- Boptism (Rich Willey)
- Charles Colin
- Cornerstone Books
- CyberJaz
- Discographies
  - jazzdisco.org
  - Tom Lord Discography
- Ear Training
  - Ear Training on the Run
  - Earmaster (ear-training software)
  - Alisdair MacRae Birch's page
- Billy Bauer's Music (Tristano, Bauer, Konitz, Marsh, Crothers tunes)
- Django books
- DS Music (UK)
- ejazzlines.com
- Forward Motion (Hal Galper)
- Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
- GMN JazzPlus
- Garrison Fewell
- Guavaberry Books
- Hal Crook
- How Music Really Works! (Roedy Black)
- HornCharts
- Randy Hunter
- Hal Leonard
- Hard Bop Homepage
- Hickey's Music Online
- www.hornplace.com (books)
- Jazz Cares
- Jazz Education Store
- Jazz First Books
- JazzGurus.com
- Jazz Media Press (Jazz Vocal Techniques)
- Jazz Path Music Publishing
- Catalog of jazz piano transcriptions
- jazzutopia.com
- J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.
- Kendor Music
- Eddie Landsberg
- Lotz Music Store
- Lydian Chromatic Concept (George Russell)
  - Critical review, by J. Brent
- Marina Music Service
- Mel Bay Publications
- Muse-Eek Publishing
- Musician's Reference Library
- Music Dispatch.com
- Music Mart
- OmniTone (John McNeil, et al.)
- "Play Like a Pro"
- Pender's Music
- PianoPlace.com
- Playjazz.com (books and CDs)
- Reservoir Music (CDs)
- Tim Richards (Exploring Jazz Piano)
- Jim Rousey
- George Russell
- Scarecrow Press
- Sheet Music Collections
- Sheet Music Service
- Sheet Music Plus.com
- Curt Sheller Publications
- Sher Music Co.
- Speaking Jazz (Peter Hata)
- Stanton's Sheet Music
- Visual Jazz Publications (Bob Taylor)
- Wind Player site (Swiss)
- Wind Music Plus
- Windplayer.com
- Your Brain on Music

Chords and Scales
- Changes98 (Larry Norred)
- Charts of chords, etc. (wholenote.com)
- Chord Names
- Chords to Scales (guitar oriented)
- Complete Jazz Theory (Michael Morangelli)
- Guide to Chord Formation
- Virtual Piano Chords (A Passion for Jazz)
Theory
- Akribi's music theory (scales and chords)
- Circle of Fifths Fun
- Consonance and Disonance Theories (Ohio State University)
- harmony.org.uk
- Jason Lyon articles
- Jazz Theory Bibliography (searchable)
- eMusicTheory.com
- Music Theory and Math
- Music Theory pdfs (Benjamin Tubb)
- Chord Maps and Music Theory for Songwriters
- Music Theory On-Line (Dolmetsch)
- Quarto Modes Concept (JazCraft)
- Theory on Tap
- teoria - Music Theory
- Toby Rush Theory Pages
- Tritone Substitutions
- Tonality Guide
Periodicals
- Cadence Jazz Magazine
- Downbeat
- Jazz Connection magazine (Northern California)
- JAZZed magazine
- Jazz Improv Magazine
- Jazz Perspectives
- Jazz Journal (U.K.)
- Jazzwise (U.K., now sendmemusic.com)
- Jerry Jazz Musician
- Journal of Music and Meaning (JMM)
- Journal of Popular Music Studies
- Keyboard Magazine
- Popular Music and Society
Venues
- Los Angeles area
  - LA Jazz Calendar (LAjazz.com)
  - Jazz at the "A" Frame (Hollywood)
  - American Jazz Institute
  - The Baked Potato (3787 Cahuenga Blvd West., Studio City, 818-980-1615)
  - Blue Whale (123 astronaut E S Onizuka St. Suite 301, Little Tokyo, 213-620-0908)
  - Boston Court Performing Arts Center (Pasadena)
  - CalJAS (California Jazz Arts Society)
  - Catalina Bar & Grill (Hollywood)
  - College Center (Claremont)
  - Desert Rose Restaurant (1700 N. Hillhurst Ave., 323-666-1166)
  - 5th Street Dick's, 3347 W. 43rd Place, 213-296-3970, L.A.
  - The Hip Kitty (502 W. First St., Claremont, 909-447-6700)
  - H.O.M.E. (House of Music & Entertainment) (430 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, 310-271-4663)
  - Jazz in the Pines (Idyllwild, August)
  - Jax Bar & Grill
  - The Jazz Bakery
  - LACMA Friday Night Jazz (L.A. County Mueseum of Art)
  - Lewis Family Playhouse (Rancho Cucamonga)
  - The Lighthouse Cafe (30 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, 310-376-9833)
  - M Bar and Grill (213A Pine Ave. Long Beach, 562-435-2525)
  - Mario's Place (3646 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, 909-684-7755)
  - The Mint (6010 Pico Blvd., 323-954-9400)
  - Nola's "A Taste of New Orleans" (734 E. 3rd St., 213-680-3003)
  - The Press Restaurant (129 Harvard Ave., Claremont)
  - Rio (15910 Ventura Blvd., Encino, 818-205-9799, Tues. jam: 8-11)
  - Vibrato Grill (Bel Air)
  - Vitello's Restaurant (4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City, 818-769-0905)
  - Walt Disney Concert Hall
  - World Stage (4344 Dengan, Thursday jam: 9:40-2)
  - L.A. Entertainment Guide, Clubs
- Orange County
  - Adele's, in the San Clemente Inn (2600 Avenida Del Presidente, San Clemente, jam: Thursdays, 6-10)
  - Laguna Coffe Company (1050 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. at Anita Laguna Beach, CA 92651, 949-388-2933, Saturday Morning jam: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
  - Orange County Performing Arts Center
  - Steamer's Jazz Club and Cafe (Fullerton, Sunday jam: 8-12)
- San Francisco Bay area
  - Yoshi's (Jack London Square, Oakland)
  - SFjazz.org
  - 57th Street Gallery (5701 Telegraph, Oakland, jam Mondays, 7-11 pm)
- San Diego area
  - Cafe Libertalia 3834 5th Ave. (Hillcrest)
  - Onyx Room (Tuesday jam: 10-1)
- Seattle area
  - Jazz Alley
  - Tula's
- New York Area
  - Big Apple Jazz (index)
  - Birdland
  - Blue Note
  - Iridium
  - Lincoln Center
  - Smalls Jazz Club (live video)
  - Smoke
  - Village Vanguard
  - Western Jazz Calendar
- Other Areas
  - Jazz Police (travel website)
  - All About Jazz Venue listing
  - Jazz Clubs Worldwide
California Music Stores
- Independent
  - Music & Arts (formerly Alta Loma Music, Rancho Cucamonga)
  - Bookmark (Pacific Grove)
  - Cassell's Music (San Fernando)
  - The Electronic Music Box (Los Angeles)
  - Folk Music Center (Claremont)
  - The Fret House (West Covina)
  - Gard's Music (Glendora)
  - Keyboard Concepts (San Fernando, O.C., Santa Monica)
  - Keyboard Galleria (Santa Clarita)
  - McCabe's Guitar Shop (Santa Monica)
  - Music & Arts (Fullerton)
  - Old Town Music (Pasadena)
  - Stein on Vine (Hollywood)
- Chain
Instruments
- ActiveMusician.com
- birdlandmusic.net
- Dillon Music (Woodbridge, NJ)
- Foster Jazz Guitars (New Orleans)
- Patchman Music (Electronic wind instruments)
- Piano Seeker (Atlanga, GA)
- Robb Stewart (Arcadia)
- Top Drum Gear
- Tulsa Band Instruments
- Wind Plays
- Woodwind & Brasswind
- X8 Drums
Discs and Products
- All Music Guide
- The Bebop Shop
- Changing Tones Music
- Copacetic Comics Co.
- GEMM (Global E-commerce Mega Marketplace)
- Hip Jazz-Bop! label
- The Jazz Store
- Music Product links (dmoz)
- The Music Resource (formerly Double-Time Jazz)
- Music Web (reviews)
- PriceGrabber
- propermusic.com
- Talking Jazz
- Timeless Jazz Records
- WWW Music Database
Radio Stations
- Internet Jazz Radio Toolbar
- KKJZ
- KSPC (Claremont Colleges)
- Guitar Jazz Station (Pat Smith)
- Jazz Spotlight On Sinatra (Nancy Barell)
Links
- About.com:jazz
- Afro Cuba Web
- All About Jazz (samedaymusic.com)
- aPassion4Jazz
- BBC Jazz page (Building a jazz library, etc.)
- Best of the Web
- Book Links
- Composition Links
- Contemporary List of Jazz Links
- Useful Links
- Dan Adler's Links (Guitar and other)
- EJMA (Swiss)
- European Free Improvisation
- Harder Bop (blog)
- Harmony Central
- Heptune Links
- Hot Club (Gypsy Jazz)
- Indiana University Music Resources
- Jazz by Net (French)
- Jazz Composition Links
- Jazzism
- Jazz Links
- j@zz musLinks
- The Jazz Page
- Jazz Services.org (UK)
- JazzonWeb.com
- Jazzinstitut Darmstadt Index">JazzonWeb.com
- www.jazzstandards.com
- TheJazzWebsite.com
- Joe Jewell's links (guitar)
- Jazz Saxophone (Mel Martin)
- Jazz Styles (Mark C. Gridley)
- Music by Genre
- Music Director Helpful Sites
- Musical Thoughts (blog)
- MusicMoz
- Netmusician.org
- notz.com
- Pianist's Guide to the Internet (Rain Music)
- Resources for Musicians, Educators and Music Fans (Ken Davies)
- San Francisco area jazz
- Sleepy Hollow Music (Piano links)
- Software Development compared to Jazz
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- Vocal Jazz Resource
- WikiPedia Links
- Worldwide Jazz Knowledge Wiki (Portland Jazz Jams)
- WorldJazz
- Yahoo links
Organizations
- Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation (book list)
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO)
- American Music Preservation.com
- American Songbook Preservation Society
- BMI jazz
- California Alliance for Jazz
- Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
- Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA)
- International Archives for the Jazz Organ (IAJO)
- International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers (IeAKM)
- International Association for Schools of Jazz (IASJ)
- International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM)
- International Society for Jazz Research (Austria)
- Jazz Foundation of America
- Jazz Education Network (JEN)
- Jazz Guitar Society
- Jazz Journalists Association
- Jazz Museum in Harlem
- The JazzSchool (Berkeley, CA)
- Jazz School UK
- Los Angeles Jazz Society
- National Association for Music Education
- National Jazz Archive
- National Piano Foundation
- New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
- Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
- rec.music.makers.jazz
- rec.music.bluenote
- School for Improvisational Music (SIM)
- Sherman Jazz Museum (Maynard Ferguson Estate)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Society for Music Theory
- TI:ME (Technology for Music Education)
- Traditional Jazz Educators' Network (TJEN, includes fakebook links for traditional jazz)
Miscellaneous
- Your Brain on Improv
- Your Brain on Jazz
- All About Jazz (magazine)
- Dee Byrne Blog + Videos: Learning the Grammar of Jazz
- Experience the Jazz Age (zzounds.com links)
- Giant Steps animated (Michal Levy)
- A Great Day in Harlem (Photo by Art Kane, 1959)
- InterJazz (Web hosting)
- Jazz Fonts
- jazzography.com (Bob Barry Photography)
- Jazz Quotes
- jazzreview.com
- Jazz Review Pages (jazzshelf.org)
- Staff and tab paper
- Notenpapier
Musicians and Composers
Critics and Journalists
- Leonard Feather
- Gary Giddins
- Ira Gitler
- Nat Hentoff
- Hot House (blog)
- Scott Yanow
Trumpet Stuff
- Rune Aleksandersen
- Paul Ayick (vintage brass)
- Arbanbook.com
- John Blount
- Eric Bolvin
- Brass Resources
- Bud Brisbois (Brian Vessey)
- R. Jones Trumpet Page
- Morrison Digital Trumpet
- jazztrumpet.com
- Flip Oakes Trumpets
- Trumpet Gearhead (Jim Donaldson)
- GR Mouthpieces
- Hession's Sessions
- Hylton Adcroft's Trumpet Centre
- horntrader.com
- Some Ins and Outs of Breathing
- Maggio System
- Jazz Trumpet Clinic Notes (Jeff Helgesen)
- O.J.'s Trumpet Page
- Screamin' (Bill Carmichael)
- Nick Drozdoff
- TPIN (Trumpet Player's International Network)
- trumpetblog.com
- trumpetplayer.net (Donovan Bankhead)
- Robert King Music
- screamTrumpet.com
- Trumpet Physics
- Virtual Trumpet
- Trumpet WebRing
Workshops
- The Banff Centre
- Bakersfield Jazz Workshop (Bakersfield, CA)
- Berklee in L.A. (Fullerton)
- Centrum Jazz Workshop (Port Townsend, Washington)
- Howard Rees Jazz Workshops (Toronto, Barry Harris video)
- Interplay Jazz Workshop (Woodstock, VT)
- Jamey Aebersold (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Jam Camp (Ephraim, Utah)
- JazzCamp West (La Honda, California)
- Litchfield Jazz Camp (Litchfield, Connecticut)
- Skidmore Jazz Institute (Saratoga Springs, New York)
- Stanford Jazz Workshop (Stanford, California)
- Summer Jazz Guitar Intensive (NYU)
- Tritone Jazz Fantasy Campe (Wisconson, New York)
- UCSD Jazz Camp (San Diego)
- Jazz Vermont (Killington)
- Vermont Jazz Center (Green Mountain)
- Jim Widner Big Band
Discussion Groups
Academic Articles
- International Index to Music Periodicals
- Current Research in Jazz online
- Jazz Studies Online / The Jazz Review
- Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager (George E. Lewis)
- An Investigation into the Operation of Swing in Jazz (Robert Abel)
- Techniques for Algorithmic Composition of Music (Adam Alpern)
- Bill Evans Jazz Resources
- Blues for Gary: Design Abstractions for a Jazz Improvisation Assistant (Keller, et al.)
- John Coltrane (Garry J. Bertholf)
- Musical Intelligence (David Cope)
- Improvisation and Learning (Judy A. Franklin)
- The Making of The Real Book, and other articles (Barry Kernfeld)
- An Artificially Intelligent Jazz Performer (Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Geber Ramalho and Pierre-Yves Rolland)
- Harmonic-Melodic Diagrams (David Canright)
- The Improvisational Vocabulary of Pepper Adams (Aaron Lington's DM Dissertation)
- Improvising Jazz Chord Sequences by Means of Formal Grammars (Marc Chemillier)
- The Spiral Array: An Algorithm For Determining Key Boundaries (Elaine Chew)
- Sounding the Full Circle (Malcolm Goldstein)
- JIG: Jazz Improvisation Generator (Maarten Grachten)
- COMPOzE Intention-based Music Composition through Constraint Programming (Henz, Lauer, Zimmermann)
- A Model of Performance, Interaction, and Improvisation (Hudak and Berger)
- How Jazz Musicians Improvise (P. N. Johnson-Laird)
- A Computational Framework Enhancing Jazz Creativity (Keller, Jones, Morrison, Thom, and Wolin)
- A Grammatical Approach to Automatic Improvisation (Keller and Morrison)
- The Metaphysics of Jazz (James O. Young and Carl Matheson)
- Musica (Music and Science Information Computer Archive)
- Surprising Harmony (Franois Pachet, 1999)
- AI and music from composition to expressive performance (Ramon Lopez de Mantaras)
- Cognition in Jazz Improvisation: An Exploratory Study (Mendonca and Wallace)
- Machine Musicianship References (Robert Rowe)
- Mind, Musical Improvisation, and the Body: The Microgenesis of Jazz Improvisation (Jay Seitz)
- BoB: an interactive improvisational music companion (Belinda Thom)
- Learning Models for Interactive Melodic Improvisation (Belinda Thom)
- A Computer Participant in Musical Improvisation (William F. Walker, 1997)
- Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (William A. Sethares)
- Understanding Jazz Styles through Sociolinguistic Models (James McGowan)
- Jazz Transformations of the ii7-V7-I Progression (Dariusz Terefenko, 2009)
- A Pattern-Based Software Framework for Computer Aided Jazz Improvisation (Johnathan Klein)
- Music as a Tool in Communications Research (Benjaman Schogler)
- Music IR Bibliography (Donald Byrd)
- Tuning and Temprament Bibliography(Huygens-Fokker Foundation)
- Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising
- MySong (Microsoft Research)
- Exploring the Use of a Single Formula in Grant Green's First Chorus Improvisation on I'll Remember April (Andrew Scott, 1961)
- UCLA Copyright Infringement Project
- Work of Dmitri Tymoczko