Databases
- Jazz Discography This link opens in a new window
Information about jazz records, bandleaders and recording sessions: leader/group name; album title; musicians, with instruments played; location and date of recording session; tune names, including "matrix" and release numbers.
- Music Online: The Qwest TV Collection This link opens in a new window
Live performances and documentaries covering the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres.
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new windowCover-to-cover scans of jazz journals and magazines published in the United States.
Using Jazz Discography
Search by
- Band Leader
- Session Date
- Individual Musician
- Tune
- Record Label
- (OR) Use Multi-Search for Advanced Searching
View Indexes
- Leader/Group Index
- Musician Index
- Tune Index
- Record Label Index
What is an index?: a list of items arranged usually in alphabetical order of information such as subject, author, musician, or keywords.
Learn about the recording
- Album title
- Musicians/instruments on the entire record and individual song
- Recording location and date
- Tunes played
- Album #
Free Online Jazz Databases
- Linked Jazz Project"The Linked Jazz project is a dataset and a network visualization based on 54 transcribed oral histories-interviews with musicians and other figures from the jazz world." The project has since expanded into other projects hosted by the Semantic Lab including Women of Jazz, International Sweethearts of Rhythm Project, Zena Latto Project, Local 496 Project, and Linking Lost Jazz Shrines. Other projects can be accessed https://semlab.io/projects/.
- Jazzomat Research ProjectThe Jazzomat Research Project is hosted by the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. The project investigates jazz solo improvisations and seeks to explore cognitive and cultural foundations of jazz improv.
