The festival's archive - preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound - contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.

Founded in 1976 to preserve materials on the birth and early growth of Chicago jazz. (University of Chicago)

An independent research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to documentation, research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.

Large collection of material that details the history of music, dance and theatre in the U.S.

Morgan Library & Museum

UCLA

Product of a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music

Over 10,000 pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the 19th and early 20th centuries

Library of Congress

History of jazz before 1930

Library of Congress American Memory Project - Documents the jazz scene 1938-1948

Includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax’s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky.

Composers are listed in alphabetical order by surname.