Links

http://www.jazzfactory.com/

Jazz band from USA. Rivals by the name, but in the meantime it‘s rather too early days for us to

start filling their bonnet. Visit them, but come back to us.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html

Duke Ellington – one of the jazz pioneers, best-known for his smashing jazz bands. On this page you can find full-dressed biographies of the leader, arranger, piano-player, also the lists of records and filmography. All the necessary information for Duke Ellington - minded people.

Louis Armstrong

h http://louis-armstrong.net/

Well, hardly is there any need to add anything. Just the all-time best-known trumpeter and jazz reformer Louis Armstrong‘s page. The Shangri-La for our band‘s trumpeter Andrius. You‘ll find a number of pictures, a full-dressed biography and also the list of all the Louis Armstrong‘s records there (there you‘ll have the opportunity to listen to the records and give your own judgement on them).

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

A tremendous jazz page where you can find everything you need. If you can‘t find what you are looking for, use references given. You’ll be provided with the information concerning jazz interviews, performances, CD’s, book reviews, biographies, world-wide jazz events, etc.

http://www.jazzcorner.com/

This page attracts with its perfect graphics and “flash” animation. The page is full of info about performers, their biographies, forthcoming concerts, interviews, photos...

http://www.jazzreview.com/

This is a “jazz review” concerning CD’s, concerts, interviews, book reviews. You can also find there jazz news and tests to check your knowledge in jazz.

http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/

This is a UK jazzmen page providing with huge amount of information about jazz events, and concerts held in Great Britain. An interesting fact to be pointed out is that you can order courses on internet; it is also possible to buy jazz handbooks, CD’s, etc.

http://www.jass.com/

This page presents jazz history of the period from 1895 to 1920 and provides a huge alphabetically arranged list of performers who belong to that period. You can find a biography of each performer, buy a CD or even listen to their works.

http://www.vilniusjazz.lt/

This is the site of “Vilnius Jazz festival” containing a huge amount of information about forthcoming festival. There are also archives of past festivals starting with the year of 1988. A wide list of participants is available too. The page presents a rather rich discography of Lithuanian jazz performers.

http://www.jazz.lt/

This is an official page of the Klaipeda city jazz club “Kurpiai” which provides the latest information about the club itself, performers who make or are to make concerts there and also the forthcoming Klaipeda Castle jazz festival. There exists a perfectly conducted “Kurpiai” fan-club (we are also the members:)). An English version of the page is available.

http://birstonas.on.lt/jazz/

For more than 20 years every last march weekend (March 22-24 this year) there has been a tradition to organise the oldest international jazz festival in Lithuania “Birstonas Jazz” in Birstonas, the cosy resort town. This resort is known as Lithuania’s jazz Mecca for the bi-yearly jazz performed there. Jazz “pilgrims” come here from all over the world.

www.kaunasjazz.lt/

This is a page reviewing the most significant changes in the field of the “Kaunas Jazz” festival. A final festival’s schedule and a list of participants are already available here. There is a chat room for those, fond of sharing their opinion on the music heard. Well, this is simply an official Internet page about one of the best jazz festivals in Lithuania.