| Current Frequency |
Updated annually |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Title from home page (viewed Sept. 28, 2009). |
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Site launched in 2009. |
| Summary |
The result of a three-year project to digitally preserve the recordings documenting the history of the Monterey Jazz Festival housed in the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound, this Web site offers unprecedented access to detailed information on the archive recordings spanning the full history of the festival, many of which have not been heard since their first performance. The centerpiece of the web site is a database documenting nearly 9,000 jazz pieces, interviews, and other events representing over 1,000 hours of audio and video recordings. For the first time, jazz researchers and enthusiasts alike can easily explore the multiplicity of jazz performers and styles that make up the collection that distinguishes the Festival as an important American cultural institution -- including Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Max Roach, Gerry Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk, and many more jazz legends. |
| Note |
Currently the database contains information about recordings dating between 1956 and 2005. With the next major update to the site in 2010, the database will include the festival recordings from 2006 and later. |
| Subject |
Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Monterey Jazz Festival. |
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Jazz -- California -- Monterey.
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Jazz. |
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California -- Monterey. |
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Jazz -- Databases.
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| Genre/Form |
Databases.
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Databases.
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| Added Author |
Stanford University. Archives.
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