Berklee Global Jazz Institute

Online open access journal designed to publish peer-reviewed articles of original jazz research and provides an outlet for detailed writing about jazz that is rooted in scholarly rigor and is not compromised by commercial interests.

Jazz Studies Online (JSO) brings together a rich and varied collection of digital resources - journal articles, books and book chapters, video and audio, teaching materials, and an extensive index of outside resources. The interactive archives is designed for use by jazz scholars, musicians, educators, journalists, and dedicated fans.

The BOHP is devoted to documenting the lives of musicians who have made significant contributions to the music world as well as the Berklee College of Music community. In short, the BOHP aims to chronicle the rich and diverse history of Berklee and Boston music from those who have lived, shaped and defined it.

Transcriptions and recordings of oral histories of NEA Jazz Masters are part of the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is home to the widely acclaimed Savory Collection, which includes more than 100 hours of live recordings of jazz legends made from New York City radio broadcasts aired between 1935 and 1941.

The Fillius Jazz Archive holds a collection of videotaped interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. The collection generally focuses on artists associated with mainstream jazz and the swing era. Former members of bands led by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton and the Dorsey brothers are well represented.

WPI’s Jazz History Database has been in existence for more than 20 years and has continued to grow in size and scope offering an easily accessed repository and archive of materials related to the history of jazz. The database focuses primarily on interviews and documents related to jazz musicians in the New England area and most of their content is fully accessible online.

Among their many collections, the Smithsonian houses the The National Museum of American History Archives, which documents America's popular music tradition. It holds the Duke Ellington Collection and several other music collections that you can find described on the Archive's website including The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music containing images, music, and lyrics of American life and culture between 1790 and the 1980s.

Billed as the world's foremost jazz archive and research facility. Part of Rutgers University Libraries. It was founded in 1952 by Marshall Stearns, a pioneer jazz scholar. The Institute is used by students from Rutgers and other institutions, teachers, scholars, authors, independent researchers, musicians, the media, record companies, libraries and other archives, and arts agencies.

The International Jazz Collections boasts world class jazz history archival and artifact collections of many great Jazz artists and critics, including complete collections of Lionel Hampton, Conte and Pete Candoli, and Leonard Feather, as well as partial collections of artists like Joe Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Stan Kenton.

Founded at Columbia College Chicago in 1983, The Center for Black Music Research is the only organization of its kind. It exists to illuminate the significant role that black music plays in world culture by serving as a nexus for all who value black music, by promoting scholarly thought and knowledge about black music, and by providing a safe haven for the materials and information that document the black music experience across Africa and the diaspora.

The Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC supports the research of scholars, students, and the general public worldwide by providing access to holdings that include oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, educational broadcast programs, and the personal papers of individuals and organizations concerned with black music.

The Hogan Jazz Archive is the leading research center for the study of New Orleans jazz and related musical genres, including New Orleans ragtime, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, and Creole songs. Among its holdings are 2,000 reels of oral history interviews with musicians, family members, and observers that document the stories surrounding the emergence of jazz in New Orleans from the late 19th century forward. Other holdings include sound recordings, film, photography, sheet music, personal papers, records of the American Federation of Musicians local 174-496, ephemera, and realia. Many Hogan Jazz Archive Oral Histories are available streaming online.

The Chicago Jazz Archive was founded in 1976 to preserve materials on the birth and early growth of Chicago jazz. Over time, and benefiting from a relationship with the Jazz Institute of Chicago, the collections have grown to span more than eight decades of Chicago and general jazz history. The collections include recordings, publications, photographs, articles, posters, programs, ticket stubs, and other ephemera of musicians, clubs, record companies, and jazz organizations.

The Los Angeles Jazz Institute houses and maintains one of the largest jazz archives in the world. All styles and eras are represented with a special emphasis on the preservation and documentation of jazz in Southern California. The Los Angeles Jazz Institute is housed on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. Research requests come from a variety of sources including musicians, scholars, members of the press, teachers, students and members of the general public.

Houses thousands of items related to the West Coast Jazz Revival that began in San Francisco about 1939. Collections include the Monterey Jazz Festival Collection, the Riverwalk Jazz Collection, the Jim Cullum Jazz Collection, and more.

Founded in 1955, the Society for Ethnomusicology is a global, interdisciplinary network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.

The International Council for Traditional Music is a Non-Governmental Organisation in formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Its aims are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance of all countries.

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world.

Primary Collections:
Asia: Indian Classical music, Iranian Khorāsān, Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Music, Turkish Classical Music, Chinese Songs
Europe: Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Musics, Traditional Bulgarian Songs, Tvisöngur (male polyphony in Iceland)
Africa: Ethiopian Music
Americas: Rubén Blades Collection

The Archives of Traditional Music is an audiovisual archive that documents music and culture from all over the world. With over 100,000 recordings that include more than 2,700 field collections, it is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States

Primary Collections:
- Navajo music, Shona mbira music from Zimbabwe, Jewish cantor traditions, collections of Iranian, Japanese, Spanish, Shetland Islands, Greek, Indonesian, North Indian (Hindustani) music and South Indian (Karnatak) music.

The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. It provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas.

Links to major archives and collections in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Includes the collections of Alan Lomax, Robert Winslow Gordon and other significant collections of regional and ethnic music