Origin Jazz Library

 

   
A Passion 4 Jazz website and Twitter
A Passion for Jazz! History of Jazz music, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, webcasts, piano & guitar chords, scales and online lessons.
   
Milton Brown & the Founding of Western Swing
Cary Ginell's landmark biography of western swing pioneer Milton Brown was the winner of the 1995 ARSC Award for Excellence and the Belmont University Music Business Country Music Book Award.
   
More about Bix Beiderbecke
Brief bio of Bix plus other cool links.
   
Western Swing Discography
Compiled over a period of 10 years, Cary Ginell and Kevin Coffey's "Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands" is the most comprehensive study to date of recordings made before World War II by Bob Wills, Milton Brown, and dozens of other bands.