Links

Organisations/Communities/Key Local Sites

thejazzbreakfast.blogspot.com            Blog written by The Birmingham Post jazz  journalist                                                    Peter Bacon

Russ Escritt's photos            Great photos from Birmingham Jazz concerts

Garry Corbett's photos          Great photos mostly from the Rush Hour Blues Friday

                                         sessions at SH

Cobweb Collective the website for the Birmingham based collective for birmingham musicians

Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Jerwood Jazz generation

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

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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