Music Online's Jazz Music Library adds MORE content

Jazz Music Library recently released more than 2,000 albums (over 30,000 tracks!) of great jazz recordings from Verve, Impulse! Records, GRP, A&M Records, Blue Thumb Records, Geffen, Decca, Universal Classics & Jazz, Marsalis Music, and more.


Notable artists/ensembles included in this release:

• Alice Coltrane
• Anita O'Day
• Billie Holiday
• Bing Crosby
• Branford Marsalis
• Cassandra Wilson
• Diana Krall
• Dinah Washington
• Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Glenn Miller Orchestra
• Herbie Hancock
• John Coltrane
• Lionel Hampton
• Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• Shirley Horn
• Spyro Gyra

Live recordings from legendary venues such as the Village Vanguard, Newport Jazz Festival, The Jazz Workshop, Montreux Jazz Festival, The Swing Cat's Ball, Pep's, Birdland, and La Bonbonniere


Recordings from JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC, featuring Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and concerts from the 1940's

Recordings from the JAZZ MASTERS SERIES, featuring compilations from artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Smith, Stan Getz & Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine

Recordings from the MARSALIS MUSIC HONORS SERIES, featuring music from Michael Carvin, Jimmy Cobb, Bob French, and Alvin Batiste

COMPLETE LABEL RECORDINGS from artists such as Bill Evans (The Complete Bill Evans on Verve), John Coltrane (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings), Count Basie (The Complete Decca Recordings), Sarah Vaughan (The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury), and more

This release brings Jazz Music Library to 60,000 tracks and makes it the largest resource for streaming audio in jazz.

Music Online - Listening & Reference Database

The library added a great new music database this year.

Promoted as "the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web," Music Online Database is the best resource for students interested in researching or listening to music.

Included in Music Online are the following resources - all searchable individually or as one (BIG) database.

Music Online Listening

• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Jazz Music Library
• Smithsonan Global Sound

Music Online Reference

• African American Music Reference
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Classical Scores Library

Some additional features worth noting...

• Browse - so many ways to browse either the listening or reference collection. Just to name a few: Albums, Composers, Cultural Groups, Genres, Instruments, Scores, Song Titles, etc...
• Playlists -create your own playlist of music by simply creating an account in Music Online. You can create playlists containing whole works, segments, and/or other items such as links to any URL. Playlists can be annotated, edited, copied, shared, and all playlists contain their own unique static URL. Playlists can be used as lists of personal favorites, class viewing/listening assignments, or as a teaching resource for in-class use.
• Discography - for those artists you can't get enough of;
  
• Chronology - timeline of music from 1900 to present;
  
• Biography - for the life's story of your favorite musicians and performers;
  
• Images/Cover Art - to see the variations for different pressings of the same album;
  
• Liner Notes - for reading all of the fascinating details about your favorite recording...
  
• and so much more!