Jazz

Village Voice online archive

EARLY JAZZ

• The Red Hot Jazz Archive (jazz before 1930)
• History of Recorded Jazz
• James Reese Europe
  • excerpt from Jazz (Ken Burns)
  • “Concert of Negro Music,” Carnegie Hall, May 2, 1912

CLUBS, PLACES

• Historical Jazz Maps of Manhattan (popspotsnyc.com)
• Cafe Society
  • Billie Holiday, “I’m Gonna Lock My Heart (and throw away the key)” (1939)
    • “Strange Fruit” (1959); lyrics (by Abel Meeropol, under the pseudonym Lewis Allan)
  • Charlie Parker, “Just Friends” (June/July 1950)
• Five Spot cafe
  • Walter Silver photos (1950s, storefront), NYPL
  • “New York’s Spreading Upper Bohemia” (Esquire, July 1957; Burt Glinn photos)
    • David Amram and other Burt Glinn photos (summer 1957)
  • Monk and Coltrane (1957)
  • Monk and Rollins (1958)
  • Mingus (1958)
  • Heerb Snitzer photos of Lester Young (outside, 1958; on the bandstand, 1958a, 1958b)
  • Coleman and Cherry (1959)
    • Bob Parent photo
  • Jazz Interactions on a Sunday afternoon
  • John Handy (10/27/1960, NYT-Wesleyan access only)
  • Eric Dolphy-Booker Little (At the Five Spot, 7/1961)
  • “The Highs and Lows of a Great Jazz Club” (Giddens, VV, 2/16/1976)
  • Five Spot Artifacts
  • Vanishing New York photos (Monk and Nica, 1964)
• Village Vanguard
  • Monday Night Tradition Keeps the Village Vanguard Swinging (PBS)
• Slugs
  • Jazz Musicians Remember Slugs
• Charlie Parker’s residence
• A Night-Club Map of Harlem (E. Simms Campbell, 1932)
  • Cab Calloway narrates an animated tour of the map
• The Jazz Loft Project (821 Sixth Ave.)
  • The Jazz Loft, according to W. Eugene Smith (film)

• Newport Jazz Festival programs

Jazz Avant Gardes page (musc277)

“Jazz: The Experimenters” – 1965 at the Village Gate, New York City. Martin Williams

• “Why Did Ralph Ellison Despise Modern Jazz,” (Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2014)

SUN RA

• Sun Ra interview (Helsinki, 1971)
• Lecture and Reading List from 1971 UC Berkeley course (full series)
• Sun Ra band member Pat Patrick’s son: Mass. governor Deval Patrick interview
• Space is the Place (North Sea Jazz Festival, 1979)
• Documentaries/Films
  • Cry of Jazz (1959)
  • Space is the Place (1974); Uncut version (google sign in)
  • A Joyful Noise (1980) (Marshall Allen solo, 24:20; John Gilmore solo, 26:07, on Sun Ra, 26:49)
  • excerpt from Mystery, Mr. Ra (1984)
  • Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (Don Letts, 2005)
• “Why is Sun Ra Suddenly Having His Moment?” (Farberman, Rolling Stone, 10/18/2017)

CECIL TAYLOR

• at the Village Gate (1965)
• Paris, 1966
• from Imagine the Sound (1981)
• Munich, 1984
• One Night with Blue Note (1985)
• with Art Ensemble of Chicago (1984)
• Interview (Kyoto Prize, 2013)

ORNETTE COLEMAN

• Photos
  • The Cellar (Vancouver, BC, 1957)
  • Robert Parent photos (1959-60)
  • Clemens Kalischer
    • at Lenox, MA (1959)
    • Lenox? Monterey? (1959)
  • William Claxton
    • Los Angeles (1959)
• Paris, 1966
• Solo, Berlin 1972
• Quartet in Rome (1974)
• Sextet (1978)
• conversation with George Russell, from Made In America (1985)

JOHN COLTRANE

• Interview (1958)
• Interview (1960)
• Live 1960, 61, 65 (Jazz Icons)
• Interview (Frank Kofsky, 1966): part 1; part 2; part 3

MISC

• First jazz recordings
• Cab Calloway’s Hepster Dictionary (1939)
• Radio interviews with Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins
• Jazz Loft Project radio series
• Charlie Parker
  • quartet with Buddy Rich
  • with Coleman Hawkins (1950)
  • “Hot House” with Dizzy Gillespie (1952)
• Thelonious Monk
  • “Blue Monk” (The Sound of Jazz, 1957, Monk at 18:08)
  • “Evidence” (Japan, 1963)
  • “Straight No Chaser” (1969)
  • Straight No Chaser: 1, 2, 3,  (documentary, 1988)
• Miles Davis
  • “So What” (w. John Coltrane), 1959
  • Miles Davis Quintet, mid 1960s (Hancock, Carter, Williams, Shorter)
    • “All of You,” Milan 1964
    • “Autumn Leaves,” 1964
    • “Agitation” and more, Stockholm 1967?
    • “Walkin‘,” Germany 1967
• 1959, The Year that Changed Jazz (BBC Four)
• 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, Youth Orchestra, 16-year-old Andy Marsala with Cannonball Adderley
• “What is the Future of Jazz in New York” (2014, New York Observer)