InfoGuides: Jazz Studies Guide: Find Streaming Media

Find Streaming Jazz Music

The library has access to hundreds of thousands of streaming music tracks through our databases. Here are a few that focus on jazz or have large jazz collections:

Music Online: Jazz Music Library
A comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. View a tutorial on this database here.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A virtual encyclopedia of over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds that includes recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and others. Browse by musical instrument, geographical area, or cultural group. View a tutorial on this database here.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Offers a large selection of works by jazz legends and contemporary artists. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented. The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 200 labels, and include the catalog of Blue Note Records, Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy and others. note: Access limited to 5 simultaneous users. View a tutorial on this database here.

Find Streaming Jazz Videos

The library also has thousands of streaming videos. Here are a few places to find videos on jazz:

Selected Streaming Albums and Videos

These albums are available through our streaming databases. Check them out, then try looking up your favorite jazz artists!

Count Basie at Birdland
Performed by Basie, Count; Count Basie Orchestra (Warner Classics, 2007)
Ella Fitzgerald/ Duke Ellington: The Stockholm Concert, 1966
Performed by Duke Ellington Orchestra; Fitzgerald, Ella
John Coltrane: Black Pearls
performed by John Coltrane, 1926-1967, Donald Byrd, 1932-2013, Red Garland, 1923-1984, Paul Chambers, 1935-1969 and Art Taylor, 1929-1996 (Prestige, 1991), 39 mins, 3 page(s)
Live In Paris by Diana Krall,
performed by Diana Krall, 1964-, Michael Brecker, 1949-2007, John Clayton, 1952-, Paulinho Da Costa, 1948-, Jeff Hamilton, 1953-, Christian McBride, 1972-, Rob Mounsey, 1942-, Lewis Nash, 1958-, John Pisano, 1931-, Luisito Quintero, 1967- and Anthony Wilson, 1968- (Verve Records, 2002), 1 hour 10 mins
Miles Davis featuring Sonny Rollins: Dig
performed by Miles Davis, 1926-1991, Sonny Rollins, 1930-, Jackie McLean, 1931-2006, Walter Bishop, Jr., 1927-1998, Tommy Potter, 1918-1988 and Art Blakey, 1919-1990 (Prestige, 1991), 46 mins, 7 page(s)
Pharoah's First
Performed by Bennett, William; Foster, Stan; Getz, Jane; Pattillo, Marvin; Sanders, Pharoah

Here are a few videos you can watch online through the library about jazz!

Ken Burns: Jazz
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz — the quintessential American art form.
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Jazz on a Summer's Day is a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Stitt; Anita O'Day; Dinah Washington; Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry; Chico Hamilton, with Eric Dolphy; and Louis Armstrong, with Jack Teagarden.
Jazz in Paterson
Details the history of jazz music in Paterson, New Jersey, and includes a discussion of musicians, community and school bands, music stores and studios, and local jazz clubs. Notables include Bucky Pizzarelli, Fred Dittamo, and Lou Costello (who liked to hang out with jazz musicians).

Find Physical Recordings

There are a several thousand compact discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and phonograph records available through Mason Libraries. They are part of the media collection of the Music Library in Fenwick 2B.

Search Mason Library's website to find specific titles and composers, and click "Enter." Then, use the left sidebar to filter to "Resource Type: Audio."

You can listen to recordings by using the library's audio stations in Fenwick Library, 2B:

Cassette player
Turntable
Computer with CD player