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Recommended Trumpet And Jazz Sites

JAZZ BLOGS

  • Casa Valdez Jazz - Excellent jazz blog containing saxophone info, jazz resources, musician features, harmony and improvisation lessons, and more.
  • Straight No Chaser - A blog covering all things jazz - the music, the artists, the critics, the performances - from both yesterday and today. Includes weekly podcasts.
  • The Jazz Cat - Nice jazz blog site with several articles, photos, interviews, and even some video clips!
  • Do The Math - Blog by the jazz group, The Bad Plus.
  • Greenleaf Music Blog - Blog for Dave Douglas' record label, Greenleaf Music.
  • Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Blog written by a member of a Secret Society, a New York-based big band. Covers a lot of interesting topics including, of course, jazz.
  • Bagatellen - Entertaining blog covering jazz and a few other topics.
  • Riffitides - Jazz blog written by a journalist and published writer.
  • Song With Orange - Jazz blog written by a Los Angeles jazz radio host
  • Mr. Greg's Musings - A blog containing jazz CD suggestions and commentary.
  • I Can't Get Started - Learning to play blues & jazz on the chromatic harmonica.
  • Blog-O-Jazz - A sharing of jazz experiences through concert photos and autographs, plus a few random thoughts.
  • JazzWriter - A freelance writer and working jazz musician's journal about gigs, music, and life in general.
  • JazzPortraits - Jazz news, reviews, gossip and some blues.
  • The Daily Jazz - A jazz blog featuring (almost) daily jazz record reviews and sample audio clips from each recording!
  • The Jazz Clinic - A saxophonist's jazz blog.

TRUMPET PLAYER BLOGS

  • DanJacobsMusic.com - A professional jazz trumpet player shares his music, experiences, and knowledge.
  • Trumpet Lessons - Trumpet blog featuring trumpet playing tips and a recorded practice journal
  • Ian Carey Jazz - Musical announcements and thoughts from a Bay Area trumpeter and composer.
  • International Trumpet Guild Journals - Although it isn't a personal trumpet blog site, the ITG journal page is a nice collection of articles encompasing many facets of trumpet playing.

TRUMPET AND JAZZ FORUMS

  • All About Jazz - Good variety of jazz topics.
  • TrumpetHerald.com - Wide range of trumpet forums, including several forums dedicated to specific trumpet methods.
  • TrumpetMaster.com - Wide range of trumpet forums, including an artist in residence section featuring jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and other professional trumpet players.

JAZZ RESOURCES

  • Library Of Congress - Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
  • All About Jazz - Articles, album reviews, jazz exhibits, and more.
  • Jazz.com - Jazz blog, articles, album reviews, jazz exhibits, and more.
  • Jazz In America - Jazz history and education resource from the Thelonious Monk Institute
  • Jazz Improv Magazine - Fantastic quarterly magazine featuring detailed articles, interviews, transcriptions, album reviews, and analysis. Highly recommended!
  • Bird Lives - A very comprehensive website of all things Charlie "Bird" Parker featuring video clips, audio, transcriptions, and articles.
  • Ken Burns Jazz Interviews - Complete interviews from several of the jazz musicians featured in the series.
  • A Great Day In Harlem - A site dedicated to one of the most famous jazz photographs.
  • petethomas.co.uk - Tutorials covering jazz theory, arranging, improvisation, and composition.
  • A Jazz Improvisation Primer - Information on many topics relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group
  • JazzQuotes - A collection of quotations from famous jazz musicians.
  • Music Theory Online - An incredibly thorough source for music theory information.

AUDIO & VIDEO

  • JazzVision - Jazz corner hosts hundreds of videos from it's member websites and other sources. Many of these videos are better quality than you typically get with YouTube.
  • JazzVideoPodcasts.com - Excellent videos about various jazz musicians which you can view for free online.
  • Tranumentary - Dozens of audio interviews by top jazz musicians discussing John Coltrane. In many cases, the interviewee is a jazz musician who actually knew John Coltrane!
  • The Red Hot Jazz Archive - A online history of jazz before 1930, with dozens (maybe hundreds!) of audio clips.
  • NPR Jazz Record Library - Clips with commentary for about 100 must-have jazz recordings. Their 'features' section is another good resource containing dozens of interviews, profiles, and album reviews (with clips).
  • JazzTrumpetSolos.com - Nice collection of transcribed solos. Includes player biographies and a neat scrolling sample feature that lets you listen to the original solo while viewing the transcription
  • JazzPracticeLoops.com - A good resource for play-along tracks, especially if you don't have many Aebersold recordings, or if you're looking for a change of pace. Also has some good theory information.

JAZZ LINK SITES

  • Bob Keller's Jazz Page - Loads of categorized jazz links. This page will definitely keep you busy!
  • JazzyMusic.com - Several jazz site links, including a good collection of jazz history sites.

JAZZ BOOKS, VIDEOS, CDs

  • Aebersold.com.com - Storefront for Aebersold play-a-longs and tons of other jazz books.
  • TheMusicResource.com - Large catalog of jazz CDs, run by Aebersold.
  • eJazzLines.com - Jazz mega-store with CDs, videos, posters, books, and sheet music.
  • Jazz Books - The jazz books page at All Music Methods, an online source for discount jazz books.
  • RandyHunterJazz.com - Atlanta-based jazz educator and author of several jazz etude and method books.

TRUMPET EQUIPMENT

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