Jazz Research Tools
- CJA Finding Aids
- Jazz Slang Dictionary courtesy of All About Jazz.Com
- Cab Calloway's Jive Dictionary courtesy of the C. Calloway Brooks, Cab's grandson.
- Bibliographies
- Indexes
- Interviews
- Sheet Music
- Libraries
- Photographers
- Chicago Federation of Musicians files for deceased members 1928-1979 are in the Archival Collections of Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library. The file name is American Federation of Musicians, Chicago Chapter Files.
- Find a Grave provides burial locations. Search by name, location, or "claim to fame."
- Among the Newberry Library's Railroad Collections are two corporate archives important to the Great Migration and jazz in Chicago, those of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Pullman Company.
- Also at the Newberry, online versions of some volumes of the Chicago City Directories (a/k/a Lakeside Directories)
- Music Industry Sources and Statistics courtesy of the Library's Business and Economics Subject Guides
- U of C Only Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 Fire Insurance maps for many locations in Illinois. Sanborn map Index
- U of C Only Chicago Defender 1905-1975 and Chicago Tribune 1890-1945 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Enter from the Electronic Resources page.
- Photographs from the Chicago Daily News 1902-1933 at the Library of Congress, American Memory Collections.
- Photographs from LOOK magazine at the Library of Congress, American Memory Collections.
- The Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive Choose "Jazz" under Category, or search by performer name.
- Jazz on the Screen from the Library of Congress.
- JazzStandards.com: a site dedicated to the history of the standard repertoire of jazz. Includes a list of the 1000 most-recorded standards, detailed info about the top 100, biographies of writers and performers, and musical analysis and history.
- David A. Martinelli's masters' thesis on Sun Ra, The Cosmic-Myth Equations of Sun Ra.
- Francis Davis interview of Sun Ra, January 29, 1990. Courtesy of the Slought Foundation.
- The Library's African American Studies Page
Jazz Research In Progress: Jazz researchers worldwide looking for info!
Our constantly evolving Chicago Club Map 1915-1930
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Chicago Jazz
- The Great Migration
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Blues Bibliography
courtesy of the Chicago Blues Archive at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago
INDEXES
- Lyrics sites from the Worldwide Internet Music Resources page at William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
- Berklee College of Music Library Catalog: Search by song title!
INTERVIEWS
- Oral Histories at the Archive and elsewhere
- Interviews with Sun Ra and Coltrane, as well as audio from the Vancouver 1963 Poetry Conference, courtesy of the Slought Foundation
SHEET MUSIC
LIBRARIES
Photographers