Resources

Jazz

Idea of North

Tord Gustavsen

All About Jazz
Includes articles, reviews, recommended listening.

Contemporary Jazz 
Includes feature interviews, reviews and news.

Duke Ellington Centennial Celebration
A series of lessons on Ellington's music containing RealAudio samples and interactive, multiple choice questions.

52nd Street Jazz
A useful site for reviews which are categoriesed into mainstream, reissue, Latin, comtemporary and vocal. Includes a search engine.

InterJazz
Includes a monthly featured jazz club and artist with sound files and other useful information.

Jazclass
Includes MIDI files, song charts, lessons in jazz theory, practice routines and useful articles which can be downloaded and copied for personal use. Additional material available in email courses.

JazzSteps
Contains extensive collection of reviews as well as useful information on all styles of jazz. Includes sound files.

Styles of Jazz
A useful introduction to jazz although not all of the links have material.

Swinging through time 
A site devoted to the development of jazz in Detroit, from the 19th century through to today. Includes interesting photographs of popular venues and musicians as well as essays, sound and video files.

What is Jazz?
Excerpts from a lecture series by jazz pianist and historian, Dr Billy Taylor, at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Popular Music

Billboard Online 

Talking Music Archive
A multimedia investigation of trends in popular music containing articles on salsa, electronic dance music and a studio-psychedelic band. Includes song and video clips.

Triple J
Contains interviews with sound files.

UBL.com on the Artist Direct Network
Includes brief articles and sound samples of performers in a range of musical styles.

Music and Religion

Bach’s Cantatas

Verdi’s Requiem (1785)

Australian showing

History of Music in the Biblical Period

War Requiem Analysis
Provides an analysis of Britten's War Requiem with links to the text and audio files.

Yale Journal of Music and Religion