Jazz Roots  
   Tom Morgan offers lavishly illustrated profiles of early 20th century performers along with links to books, a timeline from 1800 to 1930, and images of early sheet music including a year-by-year collection of Cotton Club Parades.
   http://www.jass.com

The Jazz Archive  
   Jazz archive, photos, and vintage records are displayed. A historic jazz calendar is included.
   http://www.rainerjazz.com/

Jazz, Hot and Cold  
   Essay by librettist Arnold Sundgaard on jazz history as originally published June, 1955 in the Atlantic Monthly.
   http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/jazz/sundgaar.htm

What is Jazz?  
   Four lectures on jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor.
   http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/Kennedy/Taylor/

A Passion for Jazz  
   History of styles and musicians with timeline, glossary, photos, festivals, teacher locator, and shopping for fakebooks and instruction books.
   http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

Hot Jazz Site  
   A brief history of early New Orleans jazz, musician biographies, and audio links.
   http://www.edsite2.fsnet.co.uk

Music and You Jazz History  
   This is a brief historical essay on the history of Creoles in New Orleans, and their influence on Jazz
   http://musicandyou.com/musichistory.htm

Jazz: You Like It  
   African Genesis portal offers one-line biographies of New Orleans musicians, a lengthy discussion of Louis Armstrong, and a collection of clippings and quotes on jazz from the 1930s.
   http://www.afgen.com/jazlinks.html

The Clarinet In Jazz Since 1945  
   Biographical and discographical information on a long list of notable jazz clarinetists, including links to other sites.
   http://users.bestweb.net/~msnyder/clarinet/clar1945.htm

The Jazz Files  
   Guide to musicians who made great jazz in the 1950s including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderly. Biographical articles with photos, discographies, and links.
   http://www.thejazzfiles.com

Kansas City Jazz  
   Loose collection of pages devoted to Count Basie, Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, and Bennie Moten, with a page for the modern Basie band under Grover Mitchell. Photos, link to ring.
   http://members.tripod.com/~isaziz/index.html

The Real Godfathers of Punk  
   E-zine article by Billy Bob Hargus connecting jazz artists auch as Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman with the roots of punk music. Links, photographs.
   http://www.furious.com/perfect/jazzpunk.html

Chicago Jazz Archive  
   Significant collection founded in 1976 at the University of Chicago including early recordings, sheet music, photos and piano rolls, much of which is accessible online.
   http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

Club Kaycee  
   A sound-and-sight archive from the library of the Kansas City campus of the University of Missouri.
   http://www.umkc.edu/orgs/kcjazz/

Great Day in Harlem  
   Click on Art Kane's August 1958 photograph of 57 jazz musicians for names of those pictured, or browse by timeline, instrument, or style. Link to the Jean Bach documentary of the shoot, online sales of the photo originally published in Esquire magazine.
   http://www.harlem.org/

All That Jazz  
   The history of jazz starting from the late 1800's.
   http://atj.8k.com/

Swing Music Net  
   The history of swing music from the 1930's until today.
   http://www.swingmusic.net/

History of Jazz Trombone  
   Past history, musical samples, and transcriptions demonstrate that trombonists' contributions have had a crucial role in the development of the jazz language during the 20th century.
   http://jazztrombonehistory.com/

Jazz Connections - Your Interactive Guide to 50 Greats  
   Fascinating facts on who played with whom, when, where and why.
   http://www.entanet.com/jazzconnections/

The History of Jazz Music  
   The history of jazz from the beginning to the present day.
   http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/zaire/721/historyframe.htm

Modern Jazz Discography  
   Catalog of recordings released by Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside Records, sorted by musician, label and date. Session indexes, biographical notes, links.
   http://www.jazzdisco.org/

University of Kansas Jazz Archive  
   The Richard M. Wright Jazz Archive of jazz recordings including the private collection of bandleader, Loring "Red" Nichols.
   http://www.ku.edu/~sfa/mad/jazzarchive

History of Verve Records  
   Traces development from the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts of the 1940s to the label's founding by Norman Granz in 1956 and the coalition formed with labels such as GRP and Blue Thumb in the 1990s. Artists listed, audio versions of pages.
   http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/history.aspx

Verve Music Group: Jazz History  
   Concise guide to various jazz styles and the artists and recordings associated with each style, edited by Dr. David Schroeder of New York University.
   http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/history.aspx?hid=8

Mars Club of Paris  
   Internationally known jazz club where many Americans gathered to play in the 1950s. Features photograph of a door inscribed with the names of musicians who appeared at the club, and memories of Billy Strayhorn.
   http://www.marsclubofparis.com/

Jimmy Rushing's Hot Spot  
   The life and music of the blues shouter are outlined in anecdotes, discography and a lengthy 1963 interview taken from the Stanley Dance book, "The World of Count Basie." Photos and links.
   http://www.jimmyrushing.com

Historian Max Morath on Popular Music Standards  
   Musician and historian Max Morath discusses American popular music standards with Jerry Jazz Musician. Pictures, sound files, text.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=morath.html

Small Jazz History  
   Features a history of jazz origins, styles, including retro photo.
   http://www.smallsjazz.com

A History of Jazz  
   Provides information about jazz history with links to jazz clubs and festivals. Also includes a gallery of jazz posters.
   http://www.historyjazz.com/

All About Jazz: History of Jazz Timeline  
   Important jazz facts from 1895 to the present.
   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/timeline.php

The Hard Bop  
   Music and the musicians of the jazz style of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Photos.
   http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop

Jazz Hall of Fame  
   A searchable database containing 1000+ jazz artists spanning the history of jazz
   http://www.jazzhall.org/

The Norwegian Jazz Base  
   A history of jazz in Norway.
   http://www.jazzbasen.no/index_eng.html

Heptune: Lorenz-Pulte Jazz Page  
   Fan site profiling Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fats Waller, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, and Lil Johnson.
   http://www.heptune.com/jazzfolk.html

America's Jazz Heritage  
   A partnership between the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.
   http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/

Remembrance of Swings Past  
   Collection of articles with text and photos by Tony Gieske, jazz reporter in the 1950s for the Washington Post and later for the Hollywood Reporter.
   http://www.tonyspage.com/