Given the unfavorable historical context for the acceptance of jazz as a set of legitimate practices and discourses within North American society, musicians, composers, critics, scholars, and other agents in the field worked towards the ‘legitimization’ of jazz as serious music.

Jazz Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that explores the history, theory, performance, and cultural significance of jazz music.

As he started with a small print run of 100 copies only, his releases fast became a much sought after collectors' item. He gathered the cream of jazz soloists, mainly from Germany and Austria. This essay (in English and German) introduces the musicians' biographies and photographic portaits

Addressed to specialists and fans alike, JJS provides a forum for the ever-expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to bibliography to cultural interpretation. The editors of JJS are Sean Lorre (Managing Editor) and Vincent Pelote (Editor-in-Chief).

Main index page for Current Research in Jazz, an online open access journal designed to publish peer-reviewed articles of original jazz research.

The interdisciplinary Jazz Study Group meets regularly to explore new methods of studying the history of jazz, its social context, and its ramifications as a global cultural phenomenon that has influenced all of the arts, the humanities, and even the sciences.

The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from ethnography to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz.

Jazz Studies: interpretation, theory and education is a research project developed at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Polytechnic University of Lisbon, that involved the collaboration between the Jazz and Composition Departments.

The IASJ Journal of Applied Research is the online journal of the International Association of Schools of Jazz published by Grand Valley State University Libraries.

This general outline suggests how Jazz has been closely aligned with the mainstream of African American history.