Jazz History:

The history of jazz is rich with inspirational stories and people who have created, and developed this wonderful art form, and paved the way for us today. Knowing more about the history of jazz will make you a more rounded player with a deeper sense of where this music has come from and where it's been.

Online Education | books/CD/DVD/Video

Online Education:

APassion4Jazz.net
History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring webcasts, timeline, festivals, photos, guitar & piano chords, scales, glossary and more...

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
A history of jazz before 1930 offering RealAudio files, biographies, discographies, and filmography.

Jazz History
The history of jazz from the beginning to the present day.

Jazzitude | Brief History of Jazz
Jazz History 101 is Jazzitude's brief summary of various stylistic periods in the music's history and the major musicians associated with each style.

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Home
The companion Web site to the latest production by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ celebrates America's greatest original art form.

Jazz Roots | Early Jazz History on JASS.COM
Jazz Roots, Dedicated to the history of jazz in all of its forms. An Overview: Early Jazz Musicians, Pictures From the Archives, Cotton Club Revues, Books About Jazz, Early Jazz Links, Early Jazz Quiz, Fun Jazz Facts, 1895-1920, Timeline, Listen to the Jazz Roots Radio Show, E-Postcards , Jazz Art Gallery.

The William P. Gottlieb Collection:
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly jazz column--perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and Collier's. During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. This online collection presents Gottlieb's photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and related articles from Down Beat magazine.

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Books/CD/DVD/Video:

Books/DVD/Video: Ejazzlines.com - Catalog
We carry over 140 books on the history of jazz. Topics include: racial issues; stylistic shifts; various jazz eras and genres; new and different perspectives on some of the giants; regional jazz; and many others.

CD/DVD/Video: PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Shop Jazz
CDs and DVD and VHS versions of the production by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ celebrates America's greatest original art form.

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Quiet Places
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Quiet Places is Ted's latest CD. It's an album made up of 10 solo jazz guitar arrangements of standards, with the exception of his original composition, "Perfect Night." Nothing here but Ted and his guitar.

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Essential Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide for the Contemporary Guitarist
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

This new 2nd edition provides over 200 pages of comprehensive scale patterns, chord forms and more than 60 step-by-step exercises providing an easy way to learn theory applied to guitar. Be able to play and solo in any key from one end of the fretboard to the other.

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Perfect Night
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Containing several top-10 hits featured on MP3.com, The smooth jazz, funk and latin sounds of Perfect Night features ten of my original compositions, mixed with instrumental jazz guitar arrangements of R&B hits by Roberta Flack and Marvin Gaye.

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