These websites contain information about musicians, labels, discographies, literature, and other things.

The People of Jazz

The WNUR (Northwestern University, IL) site containing numerous links to information about artists as well as online discographies.

Free Improvisation Links

Contains an Overview and links to Journals, Mail-lists, Labels, Festivals,
Venues, Dance Improvisation, and Miscellaneous.

European Free Improvisation Pages

Peter Stubley's  premier site for locating information about mostly European free improvisors and associated independent recording labels.

Cleanhead's Blues & Jazz Page

Tetsuro Kubo's very useful cite with links to numerous discographies and other information, with broad musical areas covered.

Music Resources on the Web

Designed with music resource collection professionals in mind, this site brings together quite a number of various online sites for music-related information.  There are links to labels, catalogs, reviews, publishers, and other music sites.

Outsound - The Bay Area Improvisors Network

An excellent site for information about the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, with numerous links to musicians sites, recording labels, and concert information.

Art Attack

The New York area  "publication for & about liberation musicians in NYC . Resources for musicians (grants, prizes, funding, health care, housing, legal rights, scholarships, etc.); listings of concerts & special events for music lovers." [Margaret Davis]

Jazz and Blues Awareness

Contains an assortment of links to websites consisting of writings on jazz, interviews, and musicians websites.

All Music Guide

Though very incomplete and sometimes a little error-prone, this still provides sufficient information to be of use.

Michael Fitzgerald Home Page

A well-produced site containing a variety of reources, with links to discographies, labels, and jazz resource.

Soundlist Links

From Toronto, links to Canadian and worldwide improvisor sites.

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

Online searching available now for this standard jazz reference resource.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library)

Selected clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

SATURN Web: Sun Ra, The Arkestra, and Free Jazz

Joe Moudry, from the University of Alabama, has created a wonderfully extensive site consisting of a variety of information regarding Sun Ra and the Arkestra.

Sun Ra Research

SRR is a ‘zine of conversations and interviews with Sun Ra, Arkestra members and others associated with Sun Ra.  With photos and other information. 

Sun Ra LP Artwork

Nick Wrigley's project for compiling and displaying Sun Ra's lp artwork.

Improvised Music from Japan

(Formerly Japanese Free Improvisers) - By YOSHIYUKI SUZUKI, an excellent resource containing links to a variety of information about the Japanese improvised music arena, including musician links, activities musicians are involved in, music labels, etc.

David Wild's Wild Place

Features  John Coltrane material as well as information about musician and author David Wild's activities deep in the heart of Texas.

Jazz Musician Pseudonyms

Pretty self-explanatory, from Michael Fitzgerald's site.

The Musical Instrument Encyclopedia

These pages are links to musicians ideas on improvising and the music in general

What is Improvisation? by Christian Munthe

"De Motu" for Buschi Niebergall by Evan Parker

OTHER LINKS:

My Poor Fish Gus - By Sarah E. Kenz
MSUM Library - Documents and Maps
MSUM Library