Organisations/Communities/Key Local Sites
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| Cobweb Collective | the website for the Birmingham based collective for birmingham musicians |
| The increasingly excellent international jazz festival nestling in deceptive respectability down in the Cotswolds. Establishing a growing artistic reputation. Check out the latest programme details. | |
| Knitting Factory | New York |
| Jazz Web | WNUR Jazz Programming and Local Information |
| Lifestyle UK Jazz Pages | use this site's search engine to find an interesting selection of jazz sites in the UK |
| All about Jazz | on-line magazine |
| Jazziz | the first on-line jazz magazine |
| Prescott Jazz Society | no, not a new government arts initiative, we just thought you would like to see what this local jazz society in North Arizona is up to. |
| The Jazz Site | the Jazz Services and Jazz UK site. A useful index to Brit musicians. |
| Jazz in Britain | well, London anyway. Excellent portal site to the capital's leading on-line venues. |
| Lincoln Center | a great jazz resources site, including downloadable jazz radio programmes. |
| Musicians Web | new site offering links for bands and musicians in the West Mids and all over |
| Music Imports | based in Ft Lauderdale, USA, you can search and buy imports, collectibles and 'hard to find' titles from all over the world. Plus a 50,000-entry specialist jazz database. |
| CMN Tours | Contemporary Music Network. Birmingham Jazz regularly puts on concerts from this innovative organisation. |
| Jazz At Corks | Must be Birmingham's longest established jazz club, and home of Birmingham jazz legend, Andy Hamilton. Also features many visiting international and UK guests. Check their website for the latest programme. |
| Life Force Jazz | US not for profit collective dedicated to bridging the gaps between the music industry, artists and community-based networks for jazz. Not sure what it all means but it looks really good. |
| 95.5 KYOT | Smooth jazz station from downtown Phoenix, AZ. The only jazz station on the net with its own gardening page. |
| FIZZLE | Experiments in Sound series of events, alternate Tuesdays at The Old Moseley Arms in Tindal Street, Birmingham. experimental>improvisationbased>freeform occasionally funny>yet serious>acoustic>electronic>bizarre>>fortnightly sessions>>all welcome. |
| Red Hot and Cool Jazz | the Jazz Resource for the Net |
| Jazz West Midlands | |
| Straight No Chaser | |
| Jazzwise | |
| ukvibe | |
| BCMG | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group |
Artists/Bands
| John Coltrane Page | Tenor, Soprano, and Alto Saxophones, Flute |
| Thelonious Monk Page | exactly what it is |
| Jazz Improvisation Primer | on-line instruction by Marc Sabatella |
| Ellery Eskelin Home Page | more about the remarkable tenor player |
| Theo Travis Home Page | latest exploits of ex-Brummie tenorman |
| Walsall Jazz Orchestra + The Session |