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Chicago Jazz Archive
Special Collections Research Center
Regenstein Library, University of Chicago
1100 E. 57th Street JRL130
(773)702-8705
Chicago, IL 60637-1596
Reading Room Hours

Deborah L. Gillaspie, Curator
Office: 1100 E 57th Street JRL361
Chicago, IL 60637-1596
Phone (773) 702-3721
Fax (773) 702-6623
Hours: T-F BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

The Chicago Jazz Archive is part of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Regenstein Library. The CJA paper materials are now in the SCRC for accessioning, inventory, and processing. While the CJA Curator is happy to discuss CJA collections and suggest places to start, researchers ready to use CJA paper materials should now contact the Center directly to make arrangements to view the materials.

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WELCOME TO THE ARCHIVE!

The Chicago Jazz Archive website supports the research mission of the University of Chicago and the larger jazz research community.

• Have a question about materials in the Chicago Jazz Archive? Ask the CJA Curator.

• Read about the Archive in the University of Chicago Magazine!

• CHICAGO JAZZ ARCHIVE GUIDE
  Introduction to the Chicago Jazz Archive: Scope of collections, draft collection inventories, how to ask for research help, and travel directions.

  

• Where and how to start jazz research and Jazz research tools: Bibliographies, indexes and other sources to help with jazz research.
  • History Fair and other school projects
  • Chicago Jazz and the Great Migration
  • Chicago jazz bibliography

• SITE INDEX: all of the above, plus links, jazz events, & more!

• Our constantly updated map of Chicago Jazz Clubs 1915-1940

• The John Steiner Collection

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QUICK LINKS

General Music Collection
The Library's African-American Studies page
UofC Department of Music
Other Jazz/Blues Archives & Collections
Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago Jazz Venues
Chicago Jazz Musician Links

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Attention Chicago area drummers! The 2008 Chicago Drum Show will take place May 17-18 at the Kane County Fairgrounds. Here's a link more info: lodging, shipping, exhibitors, and directions to the show.

• Video is available from the Sun Ra symposium, Traveling the Spaceways, which took place at the Hyde Park Art Center November 11-12, 2006.

• CJA's online exhibit, Harvey Lang: A Life In Jazz". The exhibit showcases a selection of materials collected by Chicago drummer Harvey Lang and generously donated to the Chicago Jazz Archive by his children.

• Remember the wonderful music in those cartoons you grew up with?
  Join WBEZ's Odyssey guest host Richard Steele, CJA Curator Deborah Gillaspie and jazz historian Prof. Richard Wang for "Jazz in the Cartoons" (12/29/98)

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JAZZ LAUGHS

• Check out Cab Calloway's Jive Dictionary courtesy of C. Calloway Brooks, Cab's grandson and leader of the Cab Calloway Orchestra.

• NPR's wonderful April Fool feature, "Shellac, the Sound of the Future", complete with streamed audio of the broadcast!

• Jazz humor favorites courtesy of All About Jazz, from their Fun Stuff Page including the now-classic Jazz: A Very Long Film by Ken Burns and Jazz Jam Sessions: A First-Timer's Guide. Don't miss the side-splitting April Fools collection, featuring spoof record reviews of Embouchure Of Doom, The Bix and Pops lost cannabis sessions", and John Coltrane: The Penny Whistle Tapes.

• Classic Chicago jazz stories and humor from the Jazz Institute of Chicago:
  Steve Hashimoto's The Book of Jobbing
  and Bill Anschell's The Jazz Jam Session: A First-Timer's Guide

• See vintage drums from the "Chicago" jazz era!

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