Addresses
Birmingham City University, Arts, Design and Media Archive, Parkside Building, Cardigan Street, Birmingham B4 7BD
Bournemouth Music Library, 22 The Triangle, Bournemouth, BH2 5RQ
National Jazz Archive, Loughton Library, Traps Hill, Loughton, Essex IG10 1HD
The Jazz Centre (UK), Beecroft Art Gallery, Victoria Ave, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX
Archives online
Bournemouth Music Library
Jazz Centre UK
National Jazz Archive
National Jazz Archive at Birmingham
Wikipedia - Jazz
The National Museum of American History
The UK & Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
The Duke Ellington Society UK
Bournemouth Big Band Swing and Jazz Club
Blogs
Bebop Spoken Here
The JazzFuel website has some useful summary information
The Jazz Mann
Tracks Unwrapped takes you behind jazz tracks to explore the stories behind them, together with other ideas and thoughts
Name that tune has pictorial puzzles suggesting well known tunes.
The Sandy Brown Jazz website has a series of examples of jazz that might suggest different works of art.
My thanks to Ian Maund for permission to use these features.
There are more ideas on the Jazz Standards website
Books, magazines and other resources
Waterstones website A search will produce over 5000 books on jazz.
Jazzwise magazine Available in hard copy
The Jazz Rag Available in hard copy.
UK Online magazines include:
Jazz Journal
UK Jazz News
What’s New
USA Online magazines include
The Journal of Jazz Studies
Jazz Studies Online
Downbeat magazine
The British jazz scene also has a lively “Trad Jazz” element which is catered for by
The Jazz Guide
Traditional Jazz
Online music platforms
Amazon
Apple
Bandcamp
Qobuz
Soudcloud
Spotify
Tidal
TV and radio
The JazzFuel website has a list of radio station links
BBC iPlayer
YouTube
u3a Jazz Bands
St Albans - Jazz in the Third Age swing band
Balsall Common Swing Division
Elmbridge
South Bucks
Woking - Second Wind jazz Band
Worksop - Simply Swing
Hiring professional musicians
U3a groups who successfully organise live gigs or alternatively visit local jazz clubs as a group include
Guildford
Epsom and Ewell
Windsor
Crouch Valley
The Musician’s Union publishes performance fees for professional musicians
u3a publications and advice online
About the u3a
General help and advice (you will need to login)
Handbook for group leaders (you will need to login)
Interest Groups Online
u3a Learning page
Radio podcasts on YouTube
Online Learning Events organised by the Third Age Trust via Zoom.
u3a Zoom help and advice sessions