A.C. Buehler Library: Jazz Appreciation Month (April): Listen

Music & Audio

American Music
A music collection of over 40,400 albums (more than 558,800 tracks) from America’s past and present, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Songs on Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and anti-war protests are represented.
Contemporary World Music
This collection of contemporary and traditional world music recordings includes over 134,000 albums (more than 1,693,000 tracks) covering genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window
This online encyclopedia is devoted to music research of all the world's peoples with more than 1,200 essays and images and hundreds of audio examples.

Jazz Music Library
A comprehensive collection of streaming audio jazz recordings (over 40,600 albums and 608,200 tracks) available online—-with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Music Online This link opens in a new window
Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.
Naxos This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 132,000 albums and over 2,000,000 music tracks from the Naxos label and other catalogs. Users can listen to audio tracks of classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. Besides providing streaming audio, the database also provides biographical information on musicians and composers as well as notes on the music itself. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions which contains over 3,000 albums and 43,900 tracks, providing users with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Streaming Audio and Video

In addition to the library's collection of over LPs, CDs, VHS tapes and DVDs, we also subscribe to several databases that provide audio and video of music online.

Naxos This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 132,000 albums and over 2,000,000 music tracks from the Naxos label and other catalogs. Users can listen to audio tracks of classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. Besides providing streaming audio, the database also provides biographical information on musicians and composers as well as notes on the music itself. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Music Online This link opens in a new window
Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.
Academic Video Online: Premium (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Includes hundreds of opera performances in video; select Opera under discipline to limit your search to these performances.