Index of Listings by Location

USA
BY COUNTRY

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USA

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AL Alabama

• Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

AZ Arizona

• Univ. of Arizona
  Artie Shaw Collection
  Nelson Riddle Collection

CA California

• California State University at Long Beach:
  
  • California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz Collections

  • Archive and collections of the LA Jazz Institute

• UCLA
  
  • Jazz Archival Collections Finding Aids
    

• San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation

• Stanford University
  Archive of Recorded Sound: Monterey Jazz Festival Tape Archive

• University of Southern California
  

  Ray Herbeck Los Angeles Swing Band Collection

  Harry James Collection

• University of the Pacific
  [Dave] Brubeck Institute

  Jazz Diplomacy: Dave Brubeck's 1958 Tour of Europe & Asia

  Brubeck Oral History Project

CT Connecticut

• Univ. of Connecticut's Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
  Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture
  
• Yale University:
  Benny Goodman Papers

DC District of Columbia

• Library of Congress
  
  • American Folklife Center
    
  • Music & Sound Division
    
    • Guide to Performing Arts Resources at the Library of Congress: Browse by subject (fastest way to find general jazz content)
    • Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker
      

• The Smithsonian Institution
  
  • The Duke Ellington Collection
    
  • National Museum of American History Archives
    
  • America's Jazz Heritage Project
  
  
• University of District Columbia
  Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives

GA Georgia

• Georgia State University
  Johnny Mercer Collection

ID Idaho

• University of Idaho
  International Jazz Collections

IL Illinois

• Chicago Public Library
  • Visual and Performing Arts Division, Harold Washington Library
    
    • Chicago Blues Archives
      
  • Jazz related CPL archival collections at Harold Washington Library
    • American Federation of Musicians, Chicago Chapter Files
    • Balaban and Katz Collection
    • Dick Buckley Archives of Jazz radio program tapes
    • Muggsy Spanier Collection
  • Vivian Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Woodson Regional Library, CPL.
    • Timuel D. Black Collection
    • Roy G. Butler Collection
    • Carol Lems-Dworkin Papers
    • Don Moye Art Ensemble of Chicago Collection
    • Charles Walton Collection

• Columbia College, Chicago
  Center for Black Music Research Library and Archives

• Hyde Park Historical Society website and archival collection

• Southern Illinois University, Lovejoy Library
  National Ragtime and Jazz Archive

• University of Chicago Library Chicago Jazz Archive

IN Indiana

• Indiana University:
  
  • Archives of African American Music and Culture
    
  • Archives of Traditional Music
    
  • Hoagy Carmichael Collection

KS Kansas

• University of Kansas
  Richard F. Wright Jazz Archive

LA Louisiana

• The Historic New Orleans Collection
  William Russell Collection

• The Louisiana State Museum
  Jazz Collections and Digital Library Jazz Collection

• Tulane University
  William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz

MD Maryland

• Maryland Historical Society
  Eubie Blake Papers
  Index to Eubie Blake's Works

MA Massachusetts

• Harvard University:
  Eubie Blake Papers

• Williams College
  Paul Whiteman Collection

MI Michigan

• University of Michigan
  Jazz Oral Histories
  Maxwell Reade Collection of early jazz and blues recordings
  Andy Kirk Papers

• The Graystone Museum and the history of jazz in Detroit, MI

• Detroit Public Library:
  E. Azalia Hackley Collection of Negro Music, Dance and Drama

MO Missouri

• The American Jazz Museum in Kansas City

• University of Missouri-Kansas City
  Marr Sound Archives

MS Mississippi

• The Delta Blues Museum

• Mississippi State University
  Charles H. Templeton ragtime sheet music collection

• University of Mississippi
  
  • Blues Archive
    
  • Center for the Study of Southern Culture

NE Nebraska

• Ruth Etting Collection at the Music Library of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

NJ New Jersey

• Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
  

• William Paterson College Library
  Papers of Thad Jones and Clark Terry

NH New Hampshire

• University of New Hampshire
  New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz

NY New York

• Louis Armstrong House Museum

• Boswell [Sisters] Museum of Music

• Hamilton College Jazz Archive

• New York Public Library (NYPL)
  
  • Library for the Performing Arts
    
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

NC North Carolina

• Duke University Jazz Archive

PA Pennsylvania

• University of Pittsburgh
  Sonny Rollins International Jazz Archives

RI Rhode Island

• Brown University
  African American Sheet Music 1850-1920

South Carolina

• University of South Carolina
  Center for Southern African-American Music

TN Tennessee

• Middle Tennessee State University
  Center for Popular Music

TX Texas

• University of Texas
  • Ross Russell Collection

• University of North Texas
  
  • Music Special Collections

BY COUNTRY:

AUSTRALIA

• The Australian Jazz Archive, part of the National Film & Sound Archive

• Victorian [Australian] Jazz Archive

AUSTRIA

• University for Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria
  
  • The Institute for Jazz Research
    
  • International Society for Jazz Research

CANADA

• Concordia University Archives
  Jazz collection

GERMANY

• International Archives for the Jazz Organ

• Jazz-Institut Darmstadt

• rainerJazz

NETHERLANDS

• Nederlands Jazz Archief

NORWAY

• The Norwegian Jazz Archives and the National Library of Norway present Jazzbase

SWEDEN

• The Swedish Centre for Folk Music and Jazz Research

UNITED KINGDOM

• The British Library
  Oral history of jazz in Britain

• National [UK] Jazz Archive

• The Jack Hylton Archive at Lancaster University Library

• Leeds College of Music Jazz Archive

• Women in Jazz Swansea, Swansea, Wales

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