Redwood Jazz Alliance:Jazz Links

Artists we like with websites we like:

Labels we like with websites we like:

Jazz News, Journalism, Podcasts & Weblogs:

A Blog Supreme (NPR)
About.com: Jazz
AllAboutJazz.com
The Checkout (WBGO)
Consumer Guide (Robert Cristgau)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Destination: Out
Do the Math (Ethan Iverson)
Downbeast (Cryptogramophone)
EyeShotJazz (Daniel Sheehan's jazz photography)
The Gig (Nate Chinen)
Jazz Beyond Jazz (Howard Mandel)
Jazz.com
The Jazz Corner
Jazz It Up! (Greg Thomas)
Jazz Review.com
The Jazz Session with Jason Crane
Jazz Times
Jazz Video Cafe (Mosaic Records)
Jazzblog.ca (Peter Hum)
JazzHouse.org (Jazz Journalists Association)
Jazzmatazz (new & upcoming releases)
JazzWax (Marc Myers)
JazzWest.com
NEA Jazz Masters
Night Lights (WFIU, Indiana University)
One Final Note: Jazz & Improvised Music Webzine
Paris Transatlantic (New Music)
Point of Departure
Rifftides (Doug Ramsey)

Jazz on the Radio / Internet Jazz Radio:

AccuJazz.com
BBC Radio 3 Jazz
NPR Jazz
Listen Here! The Jazz Review with Neil Tesser & Mark Ruffin
Jazz on KHSU (M-F 8-10 pm) | KHUM (The Jazz Underground, T 7-9 p.m.) | KMUD (Lester Leaps In, Su 7-9 p.m. & The Jazz Feast, W 4-5:30 p.m.) | KMFB (Moody's Mood, M 6:00-9:00 p.m.) | KCSM (24 hours) | KUSP (Tanganyika Strut with Nathaniel Mackey, Su 3-5 p.m.)

Commerce & Charity:

Allegro Music
Cadence Jazz Records
CDHut
Downtown Music Gallery
ejazzlines.com
IndieJazz.com
Jazz Corner
Jazz Foundation of America (helping musicians in need)
Jazz Jukebox
The Jazz Loft
Jazz Messengers
North Coast Brewing Co.'s Brother Thelonious

More Redwood Jazz:

Arkley Center for the Arts
Avalon Restaurant
Center Arts
Humboldt Arts Council / Morris Graves Museum of Art
Humboldt Music.com
Jazz at Benbow
North Coast Journal Music Calendar
Pearl Lounge
Redwood Coast Music Festivals
Relevant Music (Gregg Moore)
Times-Standard Online
Westhaven Center for the Arts

Other California Jazz Allies:

Angel City Jazz Festival
Generations in Jazz Foundation (Lafayette)
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
Jazz Fresno
JazzWest.com (San Francisco & beyond)
Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz)
Los Angeles Jazz Society
Marin Jazz Arts Society
Monterey Jazz Festival
Palo Alto Jazz Alliance
San Jose Jazz
Santa Barbara Vocal Jazz Foundation
Santa Cruz Jazz Festival
SF Jazz
Stanford Jazz Workshop

Jazz Education/Jazz Studies:

Brilliant Corners: Jazz and its Cultures (Humanities Institute, SUNY - Stony Brook)
Center for Improvisational Music
Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies
- Jazz Studies Online
Critical Studies in Improvisation
International Association for Jazz Education (defunct--though this site offers a brief history of the IAJE, along with a passel of other useful jazz education links)
International Association of Schools of Jazz
Jazz Education: A Timeline (DistanceEducation.org)
Jazz Museum in Harlem
JazzDiscography.com
JazzReach
Jazzschool (Berkeley)
Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
NEA Jazz in the Schools
New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
- Jazz in America
- Jazz Resource Library
University of Northern Colorado Jazz Studies
University of North Texas Jazz Studies

Selected Festivals:

"Music is crucial only inasmuch as it relates to life and culture. Jazz is definitely alive, it's vibrant and it's vital. It makes sense.
Sometimes it's nonsense. But in the search for truth it is always bearing new fruit."

--Dave Douglas, "Meaning and Mystery"