Jazz Music Library

jazz music library

Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music, featuring 1000s of jazz performers from legendary record labels.  It currently provides streaming access to over 130,000 tracks and is growing monthly as new recordings are added.

The most comprehensive audio collection available

Jazz Music Library provides coverage in breadth and depth for jazz music, and is essential for music history, jazz appreciation, jazz history, music performance, and African American studies:

  • Definitive audio database of jazz from the early ‘20s to today, including all major jazz genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band music, modern jazz, and more
  • Over 14,000 distinct song titles along with links to all the various versions recorded in Jazz Music Library
  • 100s of distinct instrument categories
  • Over 200 distinct jazz genres and sub-genres
  • Data on 10,000s of artists and ensembles

 

Legendary partners

We work with a wide variety of organizations to ensure our collection incorporates the best recordings

View a list of publishing partners

The greatest performances

Here are examples of high quality artists and performances featured in Jazz Music Library:

  • Legendary artists including Bing Crosby, Buddy Guy, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione, Dinah Washington, Diana Krall, Dixie Dregs, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, and many more.
  • Marian McPartland’s Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz Radio Broadcasts.
  • Never-before-released performances from the Monterey Jazz Festival’s 50-year history.
  • Re-issues of Paramount’s jazz recordings from the 1920’s, including Johnny Dodds, Ma Rainey, Charley Patton.
  • Live recordings from great jazz venues span from the 1960s to today—The Black Hawk, The Five Spot, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Village Vanguard, New York’s Town Hall, The Newport Jazz Festival, The Apollo, The Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, and Birdland.

Powerful teaching resources

Our collections include a playlist functionality to enable educators to create, annotate and share thematic playlists of recordings to support their teaching needs.

Example playlists based around key musical concepts

 

Our customers actively use playlists to support teaching

Key Features of Jazz Music Library

  • Advanced Search: additional options include song title, composition date, genre, instrument, ensemble, place and date of recording
  • CD Quality: audio streaming up to CD quality (320kbps) at no extra cost
  • Mobile Access: stream to your mobile device / smartphone
  • Liner Notes: available where possible
  • Custom Audio Clips: New feature from Summer 2012!   Users can create, and share clips from all audio tracks.
  • Embeddable Audio: New feature from Summer 2012!  All audio can be embedded into 3rd party websites.
  • Custom Playlists: create, annotate and share playlists. Access a library of playlists created by other users, including themed playlists created by our editor.
  • Permanent URLs: all albums, tracks, clips and playlists can be cited on permanent URLs.
  • Cross-search: audio can be cross-searched alongside our related video, scores and reference material to provide a powerful tool for music research.