LibGuides: Music quick guide: Jazz: Home

About this guide

This is the jazz quick guide for finding full-text e-books, journals, magazine, newspaper articles, streaming audio and video recordings. The main music research guide covers general topics. Related guides (listed in box at bottom right) cover other aspects of music.

Locate music books, recordings, scores, and e-resources

"Search our Collections" (MIT Libraries catalog)
To find specific materials owned by MIT.
Search Our Collections
Searches MIT collections and most MIT-licensed e-resources, including full-text articles.

Find music articles

Music Index Online
Indexes music articles in journals 1970-present.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (journal articles and more)
A comprehensive bibliography of writings on music serving the global music research community.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive (full-text journal articles)
New York Times, 1923-2016
Excellent source of historic full-text concert reviews and interviews with jazz musicians, etc.
Boston Globe, 1960-1988
Excellent source of historic full-text concert reviews and interviews with jazz musicians, etc.
Los Angeles Tribune, 1943-1960
African American Newspaper with full-text reviews and interviews with jazz musicians.

Streaming audio and video

Naxos Jazz
Streaming audio (MIT access)
Music and Performing Arts
Streaming audio (MIT access) from Alexander Street Press: includes American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound
DRAM [Database of Recorded American Music]
Streaming audio (MIT access)
Kanopy
Streaming video (MIT access) with documentary and feature films.
Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
1000 hours of audio and video
Internet Archive (audio)
Apps for music

Jazz at MIT

Music at MIT Oral History Collection
Includes interviews with MIT jazz musicians
MIT Music and Theater Arts Section
History of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

Additional Jazz Resources

Jazz research websites
Guide maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries
All About Jazz
Features profiles, interviews, and reviews
The Fake Book Index
Searchable index of over 75 "fake books"