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Louis Armstrong House and Archives (Queens College)
The primary collection of the Louis Armstrong Archives is Louis's vast personal collection of photographs, papers, scrapbooks, commercial recordings, private recordings, memorabilia, and musical instruments. These materials were discovered in the Armstrong House in 1987.
The Blue Highway
Cadence Search
Chicago Jazz Archive
The Chicago Jazz Archive is a special collection of the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. Established in 1976, the Archive was originally intended to collect and preserve materials from the late 1910s through the 1920s, documenting the birth of "Chicago style" jazz.
Ethnomusicology Online
Folk Music
Folkways/Smithsonian Database
The Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies maintains a database contianing over thirty thousand individual songs (tracks) from several thousand albums (records). These web pages will allow you to dynamically search the database for album or song title, year recorded, source (label), or by keywords that include: instrument, genre, and ethnic, national, and geographic attributes.
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
House of Blues
Iberian and Latin-American Music Online
Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University)
The Institute of Jazz Studies is the world's foremost jazz archive and research facility. It was founded in 1952 by Marshall Stearns (1908-1966), a pioneer jazz scholar.
International Hispanic Music Study Group
Jazzchord
News and Information from the National Jazz Co-ordinator
JazzMarket
Jazz Online
Latin American Music Center (Indiana)
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history.
National Ragtime and Jazz Archive
In March 1974 the Board of Trustees, in recognition of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's part in the St. Louis metropolitan community and its rich cultural tradition of jazz and ragtime music, established the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive at Lovejoy Library. The archive documents early recorded jazz and the lives of notable jazz musicians from the St. Louis area. The John Randolph Collection, with approximately 10,500 78-rpm records, provided the basis of the archive's record collection. Today there are more than 20,000 records in the archive. Audio and videotapes, sheet music, piano rolls, and oral history materials are also included.
World Folk Music Association