LibGuides: Jazz: Audio and Video

Recordings in the Library

WSU Library Catalog

The Music Library contains thousands of compact disc recordings, as well as LP recordings. Search the Library Catalog to find a recording to check out or to listen to in the Library.

Compact Disc 4484 or 5843 or Phonodisc CCCLXXXVII6 in the Music Library image by Daniel Nelson is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Listening Online

Music Online: Listening (United States) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. It cross searches American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
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ASP Video Tutorials

Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU.
The Great 78 Project
The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings. Found here are over 20 collections have been selected by the Internet Archive for physical and digital preservation and access. Started by many volunteer collectors, these new collections have been selected, digitized and preserved by the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music.
Internet Archive Audio Recordings
This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
Pandora
Free or subscription online radio service listening. Requires signing in.
UbuWeb
Resource for avant-garde audio and film.

Using Music Online

For more Music Online Tutorials, consult the Alexander Street Press webpage: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/

Music Videos in the Music Library

The Music Library holds DVD and VHS titles of many opera, jazz, symphonic and chamber music performances, along with a variety of documentaries relating to the study of music. Note: Staged versions of musicals are found in the Music Library, while cinematic versions are found in Ablah Library. All videos are are listed in the Libraries' online catalog: http://libcat.wichita.edu

Big 4 Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Martin Drew : Tokyo Concert 1983

To see the complete concert, check out the DVD from the Music Library in the Music and Languages Innovation Center, Jardine 313, under call number ML3509.J3 O82 2008

Videos Online

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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This is a comprehensive video collection that delivers more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. It includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs & newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. It has award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.
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60 Minutes: 1997-2014, American History in Video, Art and Architecture in Video, Asian Film Online (Volumes * & II), Black Studies in Video, Business Education in Video, Classical Music in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volumes I-III), Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Current Affairs in Video, Dance in Video (Volumes I & II), Education in Video (Volumes I & II), Environmental Studies in Video, Ethnographic Video Online (Volumes I-III), Fashion STudies Online, Filmakers Library Online (Volumes I-III), Health and Society in Video, Latin American in Video, LGBT Studies in Video, The March of Time, Meet the Press, new World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present, Opera in Video, BBC Video Collection, PBS Video Collect (2nd Ed), Silent Film Online, Theatre in Video (Volumes I & II), Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, World History in Video, and World Newsreels Online.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
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A source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Includes the Master Academic Collection and the FMG Archival Films and Newsreels Collection.
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Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window
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Streaming collection of over 300 Sony films from 1992 to 2015, including world cinema. The collection features a strong emphasis on documentary. Films in the catalog have received more than 133 Academy Award® nominations, with 33 wins, including thirteen awards for Best Foreign Language Film and four awards for Best Documentary Feature. Terms of Use

UbuWeb
Resource for avant-garde audio and film.
Open Culture
Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns; Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.

Jazz

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Recordings in the Library

Listening Online

Using Music Online

Music Videos in the Music Library

Videos Online