Jazz Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of jazz recordings available online—covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres, from all over the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. It’s an essential resource for the study and teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation.

Legendary record labels, artists, and venues

The labels in Jazz Music Library are legendary—Verve, GRP Records, Impulse, Jazzology Records, American Music Records, G.H.B. Records, Black Swan Records, Solo Art Records, Circle Records, Paramount, Concord Records, Concord Picante, Concord Jazz, Fantasy Jazz, Contemporary Records, Good Time Jazz, Milestone Records, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo Records, Peak Records, Prestige Records, Riverside Records, Stretch Records, Original Jazz Classics—more than two dozen and growing. *

The artists range from past greats to musicians performing and recording today—Bing Crosby, Buddy Guy, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione, Dinah Washington, Diana Krall, Dixie Dregs, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Grover Washington, Jr., Joe Jackson, Les Paul, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Karrin Allyson, Nina Simone, Hugh Masekela, Peggy Lee, Quincy Jones, Ramsey Lewis, Roy Ayers, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Billie Holliday, Thelonius Monk, Tony Bennett, and a long list of others.

Marian McPartland’s Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz radio broadcasts are included. Never-before-released performances from the Monterey Jazz Festival’s fifty-year history are here. 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.

You’ll find Chicago-style jazz—Red Nichols, Wild Bill Davison, Marty Grosz, Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Tim Laughlin, Pete Fountain, Bob Wilber, Doc Cheatham, Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Concerts; New Orleans jazz—Lizzie Miles, Pud Brown, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, Kid Ory, Baby Dodds, Lead Belly, Raymond Burke, Kid Thomas, Kid Howard, Alvin Alcorn, Punch Miller, Kid Sheik, Billie & De De Pierce; 1920s jazz—Johnny Dodds, Ma Rainey, Charley Patton, Paramount Piano Jazz; big bands and solo piano jazz; acid jazz—Jack McDuff, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Charles Earland; Latin jazz—Ray Barretto, Pete Escovedo, Tania Maria, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Poncho Sanchez; and the list goes on and on.

A standalone resource or part of Alexander Street’s Music Online

Only through Jazz Music Library are jazz tracks integrated with all of Alexander Street’s award-winning online music listening and reference collections. Cross-search all the audio tracks, reference, scores, song sheets through a single interface, for the easiest and most comprehensive music experience available online.

Browse, search, make playlists, and create courses

Through Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing™, you can browse and search by song title, album, composer, lyricist, date composed, instrument, genre, label, place recorded, and other fields. Select tracks and put them into personal playlists. Annotate the playlists, share them, assign them for instruction, and use them with course management systems. For personal enjoyment, classroom instruction, and sharing—the tools in Jazz Music Library are powerful and comprehensive.

Publication details

Jazz Music Library is affordable. For just a few hundred dollars a year, you can enjoy Alexander Street’s Jazz Music Library. The price is even lower if you’re adding Jazz Music Library to your existing Music Online subscription.

There’s no setup involved, no special software to download—just point your browser to the collection and enjoy. Contact your sales representative or sales@alexanderstreet.com for more information on how to get started the same day.

* Just a few labels are unavailable outside the U.S. and Canada.