The World’s Largest Jazz Archives

A brief and intriguing glimpse into the jazz archives at Rutgers

Founded in 1952 by Marshall Stearns and housed at Rutgers since 1967, the Institute of Jazz Studies has amassed a remarkably huge collection of jazz recordings, books, periodicals, photos and memorabilia including Lester Young’s horn.

This brief film gives one a few tantalizing glimpses into the archives.

The commentary of three researchers and the background music of early Count Basie set the perfect atmosphere for this quick and fascinating tour of jazz heaven.

– Scott Yanow

From the largest jazz museum to the smallest…

Jazz on the Tube interviewed Al Jackson, proprietor of one of the smallest, and most important, jazz museums in the world Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum in New Orleans. It’s devoted to the missing pieces of the jazz’s historical puzzle: Haiti, Cuba and New Orleans Creole culture.