Links

Here are some links to web sites that we find useful.

Jazz Web Sites

The Jazz Site - premier website for information on British jazz musicians, venues, promoters, educators and much more.

Jazzaction - Publicly funded jazz development agency for the Northern region. Run by Adrian Tilbrook.

A Passion For Jazz - an interesting site for jazz history.

JazzFM - On Line Jazz Radio. Listen

Jazz Standards

An excellent site which has listings of the 1000 most commonly played jazz standards and detailed information on the top 300 jazz standards including origins, historical notes, musical analyses, CD suggestions, and much more JazzStandards.com

Vanilla Changes

For good plain versions of loads of jazz standards visit Ralph Platt's site. His "Vanilla Book" has loads of jazz standards with the original chords rather than substitute chords which are often used to embellish a song.

Jazz Lyrics

To find Jazz Lyrics you can use Rabid Squirrel's Jazz Archive

Picks

Heavy picks are commonly used for gypsy jazz. The most common types are the Wegen Picks and Dugain Picks (the acetate Dugain is particularly good).

NB - if you are buying picks from a French supplier they are called "mediators" in French.

Strings

StringsDirect is a good online UK source for strings etc.

Other Kit

For general useful guitar supplys try Elderly Instruments in USA. Good for us UK boys with the current exchange rates! Seriously though, excellent on-line catalog and service at all times.

Rosyne and Francois Charle shop is also worth a visit in Paris.

Guitar Set Up/Repair

For guitar repairs, set up etc. in Tees Valley - Yorkshire area we stongly recommend Nigel Stockbridge of Nigel's Guitar Workshop. in Richmond. (Nigel just did an excellent refret job on Keef's 1958 Hofner Committee. Thanks Nigel!)

Photography

Denis Dunning is a great local professional photographer with a strong interest in the music scene who is developing a great archive of photographs of local musicians.(P.S. his web site link will be available soon)