External Jazz/Improvised Music Links
Initially, this will be a page of miscellaneous links. Slowly, when links accumulate and patterns appear separate pages will be created for these common items. Please kindly suggest additional links, by email to here.
European Free Improvisation: This is a magnificent resource, with listings of musicians, with their bios, discographies, interviews and more available on line. There is also a rich listing of recording labels, and more.
Improvised Music from Japan: This is a nice site with listings of musicians, though at least one odd omission, listings of some concerts of these Japanese improvising musicians outside of Japan, and offerings of a grand box of recordings,
Jazz in Belgium: Much of interest on jazz in Belgium, complied by the Belgian Association of Jazz Musicians, with information on musicians, contact addresses, concert s, etc.
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians: From their homepage introduction: "Internationally renowned for unparalleled contributions to modern music, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM) has been an inspirational leader within the cultural community since 1965. A non-profit organization chartered by the State of Illinois , the AACM is a collective of musicians and composers dedicated to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music. This collective of dynamic and visionary artists formed the AACM to meet their emergent needs to expose and showcase their original compositions and to create an outlet for the development and performance of their music."
Jazzmatazz: A rather nice page with reviews, links, etc.
The Atlantic Monthlu Online Jazz Articles: A fabulous resource of articles stretching back to the 1920s.
Dutch Jazz Masters: This is an exetensive site with links to Ddutch Jazz musicians
FRIM: The Association for Free Improvised Music) was founded in 1976 to create a platform for free improvised music in Sweden. After some years of inactivity, FRIM was re-founded in 1998 and has, so far, more than 100 members and has already organized concerts...
Jazz Corner: The location of the homepages of a wide array of jazz musicians, mostly in the US and mostly working in mainstream jazz, widespread listings of concerts throughout the states, and other resources. All very good. (Oddly their flash pages have problems displaying in some browsers, e.g., Explorer for mac.)
Italian Jazz Musicians: Self-explanatory title, very resouce filled site for some wonderfully creative folk,
ICU: Danish improvising musicians record label
Jazz Discographies: A wide range of discographies, not sessionographies.
Hot Links:improvising magazine:
Blues and Jaaa Links: A site with a plethora of links to blues and jazz pages...
Re>Structures:creative music forum
Ask The Musicians: This is a forum hosted by the jazz corner where questions are presented to and answered by professional improvising/jazz musicians; these range from music theory to the philosophical and back, about improvising and playing jazz. Some musicians have prolific daialogues, e.g., Robin Eubanks, Bob Brookmeyer, Ellery Eskelin.
New Combo Jazz Club: New Combo, Fukuoka Japan; interesting, small club that features jazz, improvised music, sometimes combined with other Japanese art forms, e.g., Butoh dancer. Features experimental jaazz. Contact: E-mail, phone:(81) (0)92-712-7809 fax:(81) (0)92-542-0753.
Downtown Music Site: A site dedicated to New York Downtown Impprovisation/jazz musics; has photos and information galore.
The Modern Jazz Discography: GNU project of discographies for jazz musicians and labels; rich site.
The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A hiistory of jazz before 1930. With real audio samples, bios, and other information available.
Jazz in France: Infomation on French jazz, clubs, performances, musicians etc.
Jazz in the UK: Large reosurce on musicians, festivals, venues, etc.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS Music Library JAZZ RESEARCH PORTAL: A site with interesting jazz links, quite varied.