Primary Source Spotlight: Jazz Music

Jazz audio recordings

Jazz webcasts and performance videos

Jazz image set

Gottlieb jazz photos on Flickr

“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free” images & score

Jazz sheet music

Jazz life histories

• Jazz Chicago 1
• Jazz Chicago 2
• Jazz Chicago style

Jazz Singers online exhibition

Jazz magazine clippings from the William P. Gottlieb collection

Historical newspaper coverage: jazz

More jazz texts

Influence of Jazz on Modern Music brochure

Influence of Jazz on Modern Music: Aaron Copland lecture notes

Jazz and Folk Influences, 1947-1963 Aaron Copland lecture notes

Memoirs of  Lieutenant “Jim” Europe (curator note on jazz master James Reese Europe)

Chicago Blues and Jazz: A New Story Map on the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection

U.S. legislation related to jazz

Today in History primary source collections

• Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Billie Holiday
• Louis Jordan
• Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz-related articles

• “The Faces of Jazz” Civilization September-October 1995
• Farewell, Jazz Cleveland Advocate 06, no. 20 (09/20/1919)
• Jazz Giant Louis Armstrong Was Born America’s Library
• Joslyn Art Museum: Jazz on the Green A Local Legacy

Jazz-related Library blog posts

• Timeless Stories from the Library
• In the Muse
• Folklife Today
• Now See Hear!
• NLS Music Notes
• Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
• Taking a Look at Jazz Picture This

Teaching resources

• Integrating Technology: Linking Primary Sources to Literature
• Learning from the Source: Capturing Character on Camera