World Radio History – A model for this page, David Gleason cares deeply about preserving all manner of radio and electronic ephemera and maintains a massive reservoir of data on his own dime. You could spend a week here and not scratch the surface, and there’s more being added all the time.

Jazz Disco – There are thousands of albums and recording dates detailed here, by both artist name and record label. If you want to know who played bass on Dexter Gordon’s Our Man In Paris or see a full list of CTI recording sessions from 1973, there’s no faster place online to find that info.

Tom Lord Discography – For when the aforementioned Jazz Disco doesn’t give you enough information. I own the 2002 printed version of Tom’s masterwork, which takes up a lot of space in my bookcase, and I’m also a subscriber to his website to gain access to the 20+ additional years of research and refinement.

Ten-Minute Record Reviews – subtitled “Jazz if necessary, not necessarily jazz”, Allan Castle’s YouTube channel has served up succinct bits of musical knowledge consistently since 2020, which is a millennium in Internet time. Highly recommended for the current context needed to balance out the historical writing you’d normally find here. Those two perspectives go together like peanut butter and jelly.

A list of record stores that have distributed Jazz Tome promo cards to their patrons:

Speck’s Records, Portland, Oregon – Wuxtry Records, Athens, Georgia

Noble Records, Matthews, North Carolina – Blue Arrow Records, Cleveland, Ohio

Radio stations that have reached out to say they like my work and/or have shared the site with their listeners:

WFMU, Jersey City, New Jersey – WTJU, Charlottesville, Virginia – KMHD, Portland, Oregon

Listening to Prestige – With a blogspot site dating back nearly 20 years, Tad Richards’ reviews of over 700 Prestige recording dates is a treasure trove. If you take a look and enjoy his writing, I highly recommend purchasing his anthologies here:

Listening to Prestige, Volume 1: 1949-1953 – Listening to Prestige, Volume 2: 1954-1956

Listening to Prestige, Volume 3: 1957-1958 – Listening to Prestige, Volume 4: 1959-1960

Strictlyheadies on Instagram – A prolific vinyl collector, this account has posted pictures of first pressings and reviews of hundreds of jazz albums, most notably 356 Blue Note albums from January, 2019 to July, 2021. Simply scrolling through the feed is a history lesson.

Rateyourmusic / Sonemic – One of the oldest and largest user-maintained music databases online. I’ve had an account since the site’s infancy in 2004 and my liner note lists there are the foundation of The Jazz Tome. If you find yourself there often, I recommend signing up for a $20/year subscription to remove ads and access themes.

Tim Foley Illustrations – Tim’s incredible list of illustration credits (seriously, look at this list) is equaled only by the variety of hobbies he’s pursued. I got to know him through many rounds of disc golf up and down the woods and dunes of west Michigan. You can get to know him via his comic strip, Mose Goes Walkies, or through the music of his award-winning American Roots group, Jukejoint Handmedowns.

Dollar Country – A fellow native Kansan, Frank is passionate about country music the way I am about jazz. He travels down dirt roads across the country in pursuit of forgotten music that he highlights on his weekly podcast and radio show. Check out this Cleveland news piece for a good overview of what he’s about.

Jerry Jazz Musician – For jazz from a different angle, check out this longstanding site. Joe focuses on poetry, fiction, and art. Plus there’s an incredible archive of interviews dating back 20+ years with larger than life figures like Whitney Balliett, Terry Teachout, and Buck O’Neil.

Night Owl Cards – My first and only attempt at blogging began late in the 2000s, as I briefly revisited my childhood hobby of baseball cards. I’ve put cards on the backburner since then, but I still read Night Owl regularly. Greg is a newspaper man, and his diligence and attention to detail are evident in his well-researched posts. Not only is his blog still winning awards all these years later, his writing is also featured frequently in hobby publications.

The Internet Archive – Linking to the Internet Archive feels a bit ridiculous, but perhaps there are still folks out there that don’t know about the Live Music Archive, Wayback Machine, or their overwhelming collection of periodicals and publications. With websites being shuttered daily and data being lost due to “cost-saving” or negligence, this is the most important place on the world wide web today.