The Chicago Jazz Archive
Located in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Chicago Jazz Archive collections are used in the Center's Reading Room on the First Floor of Regenstein Library.
- Contact the SCRC Reference Staff to use items from the CJA collections to research a Chicago jazz topic
These links to the SCRC website provide practical information for researchers planning a visit to use Chicago Jazz Archive collections:
- Research at the Center
- Collections available for research
- SCRC email reference form
- Read about the Archive in the University of Chicago Magazine!
Researching Chicago Jazz
- Jazz research tools: Bibliographies, indexes and other sources to help with Chicago jazz research
- Hyde Park Jazz : cites to articles about the history of clubs in Hyde Park
- Chicago Jazz and the Great Migration
- Chicago jazz bibliography
- Map: Chicago Jazz Clubs 1915-1940
- Other jazz archives and collections
QUICK LINKS
- General Music Collection
- The Library's African-American Studies page
- UofC Department of Music
- Jazz Institute of Chicago
- Chicago Jazz Venues
- Chicago Jazz Musicians
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 2009 Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday Sept.
26th. The schedule and the lineup can be found on the
Festival
website. The Special Collections Research Center is a member of the
Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture, which produces the festival.
- Court Theatre presents August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Sept. 17- Oct. 18, 2009. All kinds of educational information is provided on the Court's website, including a play study guide for students, a blog with all kinds of info to help enjoy the historical and musical background of the play. Tickets are available from the Court Theatre website or call the box office at 773-753-4472 M-Sat 12noon-5pm, 12noon-curtain on performance days.
- Video is available from the Sun Ra symposium, Traveling the Spaceways, which took place at the Hyde Park Art Center November 11-12, 2006.
- Online exhibit, Harvey Lang: A Life In Jazz". The exhibit showcases a selection of materials collected by Chicago drummer Harvey Lang and generously donated to the Chicago Jazz Archive by his children.
- Remember the wonderful music in those cartoons you grew up
with?
Join WBEZ's Odyssey guest host Richard Steele, CJA Curator Deborah Gillaspie and jazz historian Prof. Richard Wang for "Jazz in the Cartoons" (12/29/98)
JAZZ LAUGHS
- Check out Cab Calloway's Jive Dictionary courtesy of C. Calloway Brooks, Cab's grandson and leader of the Cab Calloway Orchestra.
- NPR's wonderful April Fool feature, Shellac, the Sound of the Future, complete with streamed audio of the broadcast!
- Jazz humor favorites courtesy of All About Jazz, from their April Fools Reviews and Articles, Fun Stuff, and the ever popular Jazz, A Very Long Film by Ken Burns
- Classic Chicago jazz stories and humor from the
Jazz Institute of Chicago:
Steve Hashimoto's The Book of Jobbing
and Bill Anschell's The Jazz Jam Session: A First-Timer's Guide - See vintage drums from the "Chicago" jazz era!