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Jazz on Film
David Meeker’s jazz filmography, now online, with listings for 1,000 jazz and blues musicians in more than 14,000 cinema, television, and video productions.

Fats Navarro Tribute Page
An excellent site devoted to the late, great trumpeter Fats Navarro, run by Stuart Varden.

Brilliant Corners
The only journal in the world that focuses on jazz-related literature, edited by Indiana University Ph.D Sascha Feinstein (co-editor of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its sequel, The Second Set).

Literature and culture of the American 1950s.

Duke Ellington's Jump for Joy
"Jump for Joy: Duke Ellington's Celebratory Musical," a documentary I produced for WFIU about Ellington's satirical, civil-rights-oriented 1941 production, staged in Hollywood with the assistance of movieland luminaries such as Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, and John Garfield. Guests include longtime Ellington assistant and "Jump for Joy" scholar Patricia Willard, Ellington biographer John Edward Hasse, Indiana University jazz educator David Baker, and cultural historian Michael McGerr.

David Baker on the Lenon School of Jazz
David Baker's 2002 interview with Darius Brubeck about his time at the legendary Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts.

Mosaic Records
Mosaic Records, a Stamford, Connecticut-based re-issue label that for the past 20 years has been producing comprehensive collections of both famous and lesser-known historical jazz artists (most sets fall between 1925-1975, though they are now venturing into reissues of 1980s jazz).

One Final Note
Reviews & more, with an emphasis on modern jazz & improv artists.

Bagatellen
A site primarily jazz-oriented, but with interesting cultural points of departure.

Rifftides
The blog of jazz writer and Paul Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey, offering observations on jazz and other cultural matters.

The Hardbop Homepage
A site devoted to one of the most prominent styles in 1950s and 1960s jazz.

Destination Out
Music and commentary on the best of past and present outside jazz.

Jerry Jazz Musician
Essays, interviews, and more about jazz and American civilization.

Dial “M” for Musicology
A blog discussing all things musicological—check out the “hipster” and “jazz” categories in particular.

A Great Day in Harlem
A site dedicated to Art Kane’s famous 1958 photograph.

Vintage Vanguard
Images of original Blue Note album covers.