John Kuzmich, Jr. Selected Jazz
and Music Education Bookmarks

(First Presented at the Brigham Young University Jazz Festival on March 6, 1999)


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Video Streaming

Jazz Concerts at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois
URL: http://www.ntjazz.com/
One of the very best high school jazz programs in the United States!

New Trier High School Spring, 1999 Jazz Concert in Winnetka, Illinois.
URL: http://ntjazz.com/Events/1999/Spring/program.htm
Live Internet Broadcast by New Trier High School Jazz Ensemble on Friday, April 16, 1999 at 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. (MDT) featuring alumnus Dave Samuels on marimba and vibes.

Seven Outstanding Clinics/Concerts from the 1999 IAJE International Jazz Convention at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California
URL: http://www.tvontheweb.com/channels/jazz/videoguide/concerts/iaje99/iaje99.html#kuz
The International Association of Jazz Educators sponsors the best jazz education convention in the world as it goes four days and nights!



MIDI

MIDI Farm
URL: http://www.midifarm.com
A massive selection of WWW links to manufacturer materials, a Macintosh digital audio group and several other MIDI sites.
Integration Idea: There are Free Files Page filled with all sorts of MIDI files, product updates and demos of various programs. New items are always being added and there are even ways for you to add stuff! Have student find email addresses, info on MIDI recording, audio recording and more.

ULTIMATE MIDI Page
URL: http://www.angelfire.com/free/midipage.html
Some popular MIDI's of Billy Joel, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Beatles, and others.

Bryce's MIDI Page
URL: http://www.azstarnet.com/%7Enewmann/midi.html
Some "Star Wars" sound track favorites with Cantina Band, The Imperial March and more.

Disney MIDI Page
URL: http://www.dismusic.com
Walt Disney presents MIDI files of Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, and others.

Audio Engineering Society:
URL: http://ife.ee.ethz.ch/%7Erosen/aes_links.html
Additional audio and music related World Wide Web links to audio education and research audio equipment, profesional audio companies, professinal organiatins, computers and audio music electronic music.

Jack's Shack
URL: http://jacks-shack.xtn.net/muic.html
Hundreds of MIDI files for your listening enjoyment. Musical styles covered include the largest collection of Beatle's MIDI files (over 300) on the Internet plus Bluegrass, spiritual & inspirational and classical music.
Integration Idea: Great opportunity for your students to become familar with the music of the Beatles. Contains Beatle music of all eras, early, middle and late periods.



Jazz


Montreux Jazz Featival
URL: http://www.mhm.fr/festival/montreux/
An annual international jazz festival held in Montreux, Switzerland. General festival information, programs, artists' photos, and bios, band lineups and a catalog of festival merchandise.
Integration Idea: Have your students investigate why the Montreux Jazz Festival is the most prestigious European jazz festival in terms of featured artists, groups and more.

Pat Metheny Home Page
URL: http://http://rugmd0.chem.rug.nl/~lensink/metheny/
Provides a Pat Metheny discography, concert reviews, tour dates and more along with downloadable pictures of every album cover and links to related sites.

The Contemporary List of Jazz Links by Piotr Marek Jr.
URL: http://www.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/jazzlinks/
Over 1,300 URLs "hotlinked." Organized by artists, electronic jazz magazines on the Internet, recording companies, a short list of must jazz places on the WWW, jazz education, radio stations, jazz festivals around the world with detailed information and other resources.
Integration Idea: No study of jazz should be without exploring the vast of information through its extensive links on the Internet. This one-stop Web site will quickly point you to where you need to surf the Internet for jazz.

Acid Jazz Home Page:
URL: http://www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/
Contains frequently asked questions, collection of magazines, jazz clubs and more.

American Music Center:
URL: http://http://www.amc.net/home.html/
The American Music Center has created a collection of jazz works and information, in order to maintain a living, growing record of the music as it evolves. It encourages performances, by providing access to information on jazz composers, as well as to their scores and recordings.

Traditional Jazz: Focuses on Dixieland music.
URL: http://www.best.com
Provides information on the bands, festivals, publications, societies, and places to hear Dixieland on the radio all over North America. Offers many links to newsgroups, mailing lists, and other jazz sities.

Benjamin's Virtual Jazz:
URL: http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/beelewis/
A good source of jazz on the Internet. Contains some good links along with insight about MIDI.

Blue Note Home Page:
URL: http://www.webcom.com/~ijazz/bluenote.html
Blue Note Jazz Club of New York City.

Charts All Over the World:
URL: http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/
Popular music polls around the world.
Integration Idea: Have your students explore how jazz has become an international music. Namely, have your students find out what kinds of jazz are popular around the world and where different prefaces are.

Download Worlds:
URL: http://www.worlds.net/products/wchat/questionaire.html
Download the first multi-user networking 3-D software.

Hardbop Cafe[tm]
URL: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mcgonig/hardbop.html
Jazz Home Page: What's in Jazz in Canada.

Miles Davis on CD:
URL: http://www.wam.umd.edu/-losinp/music/md-list.html
Home page for Miles Davis.

Jazz Forum Magazine:
RL: http://www.jazzforum.com.pl
Home page for Poland's presitigious Jazz Forum magazine for nearly 30 years of publications. Beginning in September, 1996, they will offer an English edition on this Web site.
Integration Idea: Have students find out why jazz is a big-time music in Poland under communism. With their new English edition available on the Internet, you can find out for yourself why jazz is so popular in Poland.

House O' Jazz:
URL: http://sfbay7.wr.usgs.gov/~jonathan/jazz.html
Good source of jazz music.

Index of Musicians:
URL: http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/JPRA11.html
A selected list of recordings available on CD by some of the jazz artists featured.

Inter Jazz:
URL: http://www.webcom.com/~ijazz/
Features individual sites of jazz artists throughout the world, from the famous to the not-yet-so famous.

InterJazz Home Page:
URL: http://www.webcom.com/~ijazz/welcome.html
Contains resources on jazz world-wide from festivals, clubs, industry, and yellow pages to live IRC sessions with jazz artists.

Jazz Central Station:
URL: http://www.jazzcentralstation.com/
The slickest graphical home page on the Internet. Contains issues of the Jazz Educators Journal. A must for anybody interested in jazz.
Integration Idea: Students need to have the opporutnity to see this Web site in appreciation to what is taking place in jazz today. Have them read the Jazz Educators Journal which is the official journal of the International Association of Jazz Educators.

Jazz Education and Musicianship:
URL: http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/education.html
Featuring timely materials about jazz education.

Jazz Fan Attic:
URL: http://www2.magmacom.com/~rbour/
Links over 600 world wide web sites. Home page is updated on a daily basis.
Integrated Idea: Good exploratory Web site for linking out with jazz sites around the world.

Jazz Guitar Online:
URL: http://www.guitar.net/jgo/
What's new in jazz guitar music, news, lessons online, sights and sounds, links and more.

Jazz Improvisation:
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/jazz/
Series of articles as part of the syllabus for jazz improvisation courses MUS 331 and 530 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison., Instructor: Prof. Joan Wildman.

Jazz In France:
URL: http://www.jazzfrance.com/en/
Provides information about jazz music in France.

Jazz Inspiration:
URL: http://www.hype.com/jazz_inspiration/home.htm
Jazz Inspiration Records Home Page which contains artist profiles and how to order CD's.

Jazz Now Interactive:
URL: http://www.jazznet.com~Imcohen/jazznow.html
An online jazz magazine.

Jazz Online:
URL: http://www.jazzonln.com/Jazz/
Live jazz online!

Jazz Online:
URL: http://www.jazzonln.com/Jazz/
A monthly electronic magazine providing a lot of insight into jazz music, the artists and the latest in what is taking place in the world of jazz.

Jazz Photography of Ray Avery:
URL: http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/Jazz/jazz.html
Contains a collection of books and CDS that complement jazz in the 1950's and feature releases of music recorded at that photographs were taken.
Integration Idea: Great opportunity for your students to see original, authentic photos of jazz greats from the 1940's and 1950's via the West Coast

JazzIRC Program of InterJazz:
URL: http://www.webcom.com/~ijazz/irchosts.html
A conference program that allows jazz fans to interact with their favorite artists live on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). Examples include: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, B.B. King, Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson, Max Roach, Kenny Burrell, Chuck Mangione, Joe Lovano, Pat Martino, Betty Carter and others.

Jonathan Feldman's Home:
URL: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jonathan/welcome.html
Some good jazz links to the WWW.

Knitting Factory:
URL: http://www.knittingfactory.com/Persons/Newman.html
Features jazz violinists, Jim Nolet and Sherman Baker.

Kronos Quartet:
URL: http://m-net.arbornet.org/~stephens/kronos/kronos.html
Introduction to the band and its members plus a discography, information about their works performed, opinions on albums/tracks and articles.

Letter From Evans:
URL: http://www.magicnet.net/~winhink/
A source for information, transcriptions, and discography of the late jazz pianist, Bill Evans.

Michael Brecker Home Page:
URL: http://http.tam2000.tamu.edu/~phc5296/brecker.html
Also links to David Sanborn home page.

MP Music Previews - Jazz and Blues
URL: http://www.mpmusic.com/jazz/jazz.htm
Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Smith and more.

Nerd world:
URL: http://www.nerdworld.com/nw62.html
Provides products and services to make computing easier. It is also an Internet Subject Index to help find Internet Resources as well as provided many links to World Wide Web resources, USENET resources and FTP resources.

Original Jazz Charts:
URL: http://www.nwu.edu/WNUR/jazz/charts/
Musicians on the net can post images of charts of their original tunes. MIDI files with General MIDI preferred.
Integrated Idea: Have student investigate jazz music via the scores posted on this Web site along with sample music excerpts.

Original Jazz Charts:
URL: http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/charts/
Musicians on the net can post images of charts of the their original works.

Passage Records:
URL: http://www.passagerecords.com/records/
Features contemporary jazz.

Pynchon Discography:
URL: http://www.pomona.edu/pynchon/sounds/index.html
Selected jazz music discography.

Red Hot & Cool Jazz:
URL: http://members.aol.com/Jlackritz/jazz/
Free music course by e-mail, some fun jazz history and jazz facts.

Stan Getz:
URL: http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/CDLists/StanGetz/CDL.html
Home page for Stan Getz.

Keith Jarrett:
URL: http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/jarrett/index.html
Home page for Keith Jarrett.

Sugal Mouthpieces:
URL: http://www.ids.net/mouthpcs/Htm/content1.htm
Check out a comprehensive line of saxophone mouthpieces.

The Bill Evans Jazz Resource:
URL: http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/ms-primer/primer.asc

The BioJazz Network:
URL: http://www.biojazz.com/~vaught
Meet some of the finest jazz artists from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

The Great American Music Hall:
URL: http://www.organic.com/Music/GAMH/
Good resource for "live" concerts and jazz club performances.

The International Saxophone Home Page Charles Socci:
URL: http://www.teleport.com:80/~jdumars/
Jazz Saxophonist: Headquarters for saxophonists on the WWW. Links, buyer's guides, news, etc.

The Jazz Store's Video Catalog:
URL: http://www.dantowitz.com/TheJazzStore/VideoCatalog.html
Features over 350 of the finest jazz video programs.

The Ultimate Band List: Jazz/Blues/R&B
URL: http://www.american.recordings.com/WWWoM/ubl/jaz_list.shtml
Click on the band name to view complete information about the band.

User-soft Scale/Chord/Chord Substitution Thesaurus: Changes'98
URL: http://www.changes98.com
A must for every beginning, intermediate and advanced level improviser which contains pertinent information for scale, chord and chord substitutions on any note. Can print out all worksheets.

The World Wide Web of ...:
URL: http://www.american.recordings.com/wwwofmusic/
Features chat list, ultimate band list, hotspots and major music links on the Internet.

Warner Bros. JazzSpace:
URL: http://www.www.wbjazz.com
Featuring prominent Warner Bros. recording artists.

Welcome To Birdland!
URL: http://www.magna.com.au/~birdland/
Australia's premier jazz and blues music store. Features over 1000 albums, with over 100 links to album reviews, artist profiles and CD cover art.

Integration Idea: Jazz is international. Check out about the Australian jazz scene today. Your students will be impressed to see the extent of the Australian jazz scene.

What's New at the Jazz Festival:
URL: http://www.yatcom.com/neworl/jfest/jfesttop.html
Features the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Jazz Festivals.
Integration Idea: New Orleans was the origin of jazz. Have your students become more aware of jazz in New Orleans via New Orleans Jazz.

Windham Hill:
URL: http://www.windham.com
Check out their home page and listen to their soothings, Fresh Air albums and CD's. There are biographies, tour dates, and an open forum for discussion.

WNUR-FM Jazz Information Server:
URL: http://www.nwu.edu/WNUR/jazz
WNUR-FM of Chicago has a neat web site. A great resource about jazz music and its artists.

WNUR-FM Jazz Information Server:
URL: www http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz
A hypertext resource on jazz, including discographies, lists of jazz music stores, hotlines, clubs, radio stations and pictures of jazz musicians. This Web site is maintained by the staff of WNUR FM of Evanston, Illinois

World of Jazz Improvisation:
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/jazz/
The server of articles as part of the syllabus for Jazz Improvisation course MU330 and 530 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Instructor: John Wildman.
Integration Idea: Jazz Education went to college in the 1970's with degree programs and an organized curriculum. Have your students explore the contents of this Web site which gives the students some depth about the study of jazz improvisation at the college level.

World Wide Music Lobby:
URL: http://www.worldwidemusic.com/lobby.html
Discounts for jazz music purchases.

Yahoo: Jazz
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Jazz/
Good resource for researching jazzartists, festivals, labels, magazines and regional activities.

YPN: Music: Jazz
URL: http://www.ypn.com/music/a566.html
A diversified resource for jazz hotlinks.



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