The Chicago Jazz Archive
Located in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Chicago Jazz Archive collections are used in the Center's Reading Room on the First Floor of Regenstein Library.
These links to the SCRC website provide practical information for researchers planning a visit to use Chicago Jazz Archive collections:
- Research at the Center
- Collections available for research
- SCRC email reference form
- Read about the Archive in the University of Chicago Magazine!
Researching Chicago Jazz
- Jazz research tools: Bibliographies, indexes and other sources to help with Chicago jazz research
- History Fair and other school projects about Chicago jazz
- Chicago Jazz and the Great Migration
- Chicago jazz bibliography
- Map: Chicago Jazz Clubs 1915-1940
- Contact the CJA Curator with questions about the types of resources available for researching Chicago jazz
- Contact the SCRC Reference Staff with questions about the CJA collections and how to come use them for research
- Other jazz archives and collections
QUICK LINKS
- General Music Collection
- The Library's African-American Studies page
- UofC Department of Music
- Jazz Institute of Chicago
- Chicago Jazz Venues
- The City's Dept. of Cultural Affairs 2008 Summer in Chicago Jazz Page
- Chicago Jazz Musicians
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The 2008 JazzFest Heritage Music Weekend will take place August 2-3, 2008 at the South Shore Country Club, one of the city's most beautiful outdoor jazz festival venues.
- Kelan Phil Cohran and the Legacy of Sun Ra Aug. 14, 2008 at 6:30pm. This free concert is part of the Made in Chicago jazz series taking place this summer in Milennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Millennium Park, and the Jazz Institute of Chicago.
- Schedule for the 2008 Chicago Jazz Festival
- The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is scheduled for Saturday Sept. 27, 2008. Check the official website closer to the date for details and the schedule.
- The Jazz Showcase lives! Its new home is Dearborn Station, 47 Polk St., in the South Loop; here's the schedule and directions. Joe and Wayne Segal are now booking a mix of local musicians and out-of-towners that should prove stimulating!
- Video is available from the Sun Ra symposium, Traveling the Spaceways, which took place at the Hyde Park Art Center November 11-12, 2006.
- 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)
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 April Fools Reviews and Articles, Fun Stuff, and the ever popular Jazz, A Very Long Film by Ken Burns
- 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!