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1000's of jazz products. Europe's premier store for jazz printed music. Tutors, play alongs, videos, cd-rom, combo charts, and more!” www.jazzwise.com
Music Software
Band in a Box www.pgmusic.com
This is the best backing software for non professionals – professionals use it a lot, too. I typed in the chords for Blue Monk, connected the midi file, recorded the song to Band in a Box, bit of correction, printed it for C/Bb/Eb and saved it for the future – all in the ten minutes it took for the Jazz Smugglers folks to arrive for the workshop. And I’m useless at these things – no false modesty, I really am.
www.sibelius.com For music notation, this software is top of the market. At £595 it should be. They offer music scores of all kinds, and a software product where you scan in your manuscript, then connect up and convert it to a midi file. This way you can correct it, change it, do what you like with it. Cheaper, but still close to £200. I’ll stick with Band in a Box at £69 myself. I can even understand it if I take three migraine tablets.
www.steinberg.net Cubase System 4 For a complete do it yourself studio, sample sounds, everything you need for recording your group to computer then this complete programme does it. Just be prepared for some difficult times in getting your head around it. Not for me, I want a life.
For Jazz Professionals. Get yourself listed as a player on these sites.www.jazzservices.org.uk The big central jazz site which must not be missed by any pro or semi pro. This site is here to help you, publicly funded and will list you, your group, your gigs, your speciality in jazz teaching. Go for it. Jazz Services may be funded by the arts Council but are fiercely independent. They used to publish the big jazz directory now they put the information on line free of charge. The site includes 140 jazz services to help marketing including booking agencies 180 record labels - didn't know there were so many did you? 20 studios websites They publish Jazz Uk 40,000 -the country’s biggest circulation magazine -you can download it free from the site It has interviews, profiles and news, CD and live reviews. JazzUK’s comprehensive national gig guide is also available at the site Also they sell three different books. UK Jazz bands, £5.80, UK jazz promoters £8.60 and UK Musicians at £7.50 Get yourself listed and buy the promoters book.
If you want to find out about a jazz player go to this very good site for biogs of over 200 jazz musicians including, a lot of British players, - who knows you may be mentioned? The site now gets between 6,000 and 19,000 hits each day. www.jazzprofessional.com The Jazz Professional website is produced and presented by Ron Simmonds, a career trumpet player who has played everywhere. It is a labour of love this site, no commercial interest. Like Jazz Enthusiasts neither of us try to sell you anything.
For your wedding gigs and functions you can get a free listing or keep them as an agent, excellent site www.wedding-services.demon.co.uk
Absolute Musicians offers a big range of UK Jazz bands ranging in styles from 1920's jazz, swing, blues and big bands, to salsa, and latin jazz. www.absolutemusicians.com
www.jazzmoods.co.uk this booking agency site is excellent, showing 16 top artists
www.musicforlondon.co.uk just what it says about 20 goups or individuals are listed
www.jazznights.co.uk Absolute must for your artists profiles, listing, festivals
www.jimsjazzmag.co.uk Band listings, gigs. This is an East England site and a good page as a reference if you want to put your band site on the internet. You could do the same thing in your region.
www.splut.com List of musicians web site. We get lots of hits from them.
www.allaboutjazz.com very good all round USA site, might list you. We get many hits from here too.
If you want to see how a jazz band should promote itself on the web properly look at this brilliant band site. They are going solidly for the money. I'd hire them (except they play Traditional, still you can't have everything) www.jazzband.clara.net

To find a record company Go to jazz services site >labels> and there is one long long list of them. Quickly search them, 30 boring minutes, kick out the one man bands (ugh! sorry) and you might find three or four. You can do the same thing with promoters, media contacts, retailers who may sell your cd. This site is the good for wedding gigs and high value functions www.weddingservices4u.co.uk

A site which lists all the downloading sites, streaming music sites, band sites, music promotion sites is www.enorgis.com/onemillion.html There are plenty of them. Just spend and hour and go for it. Put tracks from your cd on this site and sell them direct yourself. Good site for professionals. www.peoplesound.com Good us site for selling your independent label jazz cds, www.jazzloft.com You might also try www.allegro-music.com This is a USA distributor. www.jazzconnect.com In this artists site you can download a track before you buy. But they also run competitions, such as a Vocal Jazz Competition. You can listen on line to the entries and vote in addition to