www.allmusic.com Is
to
music what IMDB is to film.
Type in the most obscure name and you'll come up with
something. One of those websites I'd pay for.
www.arkivmusic.com
Calls itself "the source for classical music" and I won't argue.
Seems to have every LP, CD, DVD... on every classical musician
who ever lived.
www.thenostalgiamachine.com starts at 1960 and goes
up to 2013. Choose a year, then see links to dozens of popular
songs from that year. You remember a year as being pretty bad?
This site proves it. Or pretty good? This site lets us go back
in time.
https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations.html Has ten pages
of quotes by musicians, most of them jazz. From the first,
"Musicians are willing to give their entire lives to a moment,
melody, lyric or chord that will stir the soul." -- David
Ackert, to the last, "Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them
somewhere." -- Mike Zwerin, they're often fascinating.
https://syncopatedtimes.com/
contains a tab to Red Hot Jazz, where we could spend years exploring and not see or hear all of it. Devoted to one of the
great periods of American music (1895-1929),
in many ways the foundation of all modern American music, this
site is an encyclopedia of that era.
www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer Called "Jazz
Improvisation Primer," but this link is also a well-indexed
guide to the paths jazz has taken over the decades. For you
practicing musicians, it also includes baffling (to me, anyway)
instruction and music theory.
http://www.qsl.net/xq2fod/musicus/musicus.html This is part
of a homepage by a most amazing person, an expert amateur in -- are you
ready to feel inadequate? -- mountain climbing, photography,
woodworking, ham radio, paragliding, kayaking, and of course,
music.
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/stereo.html A
small part of a personal website, this one on the equipment we use to enjoy our recorded music. The
author, Philip Greenspun, gives his informed thoughts, then
steps aside for other fans to voice their own opinions. Lot of
fun for those who are passionate about the hardware in their
listening rooms. (Greenspun writes well on a lot of other
subjects; good site to spend a few hours at.)
Flatpick dot com
Quoting from the site's homepage: "Flatpicking
Guitar Magazine is a bi-monthly periodical, and companion
audio CD, dedicated to presenting all aspects of the art of
flatpicking the acoustic guitar as pioneered by such great
guitarists as Doc Watson,
Clarence White,
Norman Blake,
Tony Rice,
and
Dan Crary. Our goal is to help you increase your own skill
level and enjoyment of this fine art as it pertains to the
musical genres of bluegrass, old-time, folk, Celtic, Western
swing, gypsy jazz, new acoustic music, and acoustic rock. To
that end, the magazine primarily focuses on guitar instruction.
We also feature articles on rhythm guitar playing, guitar
building and maintenance, and we also review flatpicking CDs and
instructional books and videos."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/dudamel-conducting-a-life/
Feel free to skip anything about conductor Dudamel. The
remainder, on music education in elementary schools, is well
worth watching.
http://www.harlem.org/ The
deceptively simple website opens to little more than a 1958
group photo in front of a brownstone in New York City. But click
on the photo and, in the words of the site's logo, "explore jazz
history through one photograph."