SITES OF INTEREST TO JAZZ, BLUES AND DANCE BAND RECORD COLLECTORS
VJM's JAZZ & BLUES MART. The world's longest running Jazz and Blues trading magazine - now in its 54th year! Extensive website with articles (including archive of previous articles) on bands, musicians, grading and details on selling 78s, plus 1000s of rare Jazz and Blues 78s and LPs in each issue. Many auctions are also available online. They don't come bigger or better!
BLUES WORLD. The Godfather of blues and blues-related sites. Enormous content, links, page-hosting, auctions and much more. Hours of fun!
VINTAGE JAZZ AND DANCE MUSIC AT 78rpm. John Wright's well-designed and very comprehensive site is a must-see for 78rpm record collectors. Where to buy and sell records, how to grade them, clean them and pack them, lists of magazines, web sites, articles, music files, record societies - the lot. Be prepared to spend some time at this site!
BIRGIT LOTZ-VERLAG HOMEPAGE. Mainly a record auction and discography sales site, but with useful historical information, including a complete German Vox listing. Especially useful to collectors of German records.
MONROVIA SOUND STUDIOS - RAGTIME-JAZZ-HOT PIANO. Very professional site devoted to piano ragtime and jazz and run by Mike Meddings, one of the foremost experts on Jelly Roll Morton. Strong emphasis on Morton and piano rolls of ragtime and jazz performers, with an extensive library of MIDI files and photos. Recommended!
THE 78 RECORD HOMEPAGE. Gary Herzenstiel's useful resource page is a mine of information, articles and links.
THE JAZZ
DISCOGRAPHY by Tom Lord. 100 years of jazz on one CD-ROM - all you need to know about
virtually any
jazz record ever released.
THE CITY OF LONDON PHONOGRAPH & GRAMOPHONE SOCIETY. The world's oldest society dedicated to phonographs and gramophones. An excellent resource with a pronounced leaning to machines and 'serious' music.
TIM GRACYK'S PHONOGRAPHS & OLD RECORDS. An extremely useful and well presented website with heaps of original research about the early days of the record industry and recording pioneers.
FLORENCE MILLS.COM Florence Mills' biographer Bill Egan's tribute to singer and dancer Florence Mills, with much useful material, sound files, pics and much more. Very useful and well-considered links to other web sites with related themes.
JAZZ-ON-LINE.COM A comprehensive Classic Jazz download site with over 15000 titles in mp3 format available at a very low cost (currently $5 for 3 months). Tons of great material including vintage personality recordings (Jolson, Marion Harris, Cantor etc, etc.) and a good search engine to find them too!
WWW.JAZZQUOTATIONS.COM A great idea - a website devoted to quotations on the subject of jazz and jazz musicians. Very comprehensive and searchable by artist, subject etc.
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be listed.