Jazz Resources

Here's a walking tour, led by Langston Hughes.

More essays on Jazz than you can shake a clarinet at.

The Toni Morrison society has literature on Morrison, hosts events and symposiums, and is affiliated with Bucknell University. If you love Morrison and you're looking for a place where fandom meets Lit Crit, this is the place for you.

Check out Morrison's biography and marvel at the life of the woman and her awesome literary prowess.

Learn more about the East St. Louis race riots, responsible for Dorcas's parents' deaths. It's a truly appalling chapter in American history.

The Paris Review is famous for its awesome and awesomely well-researched author interviews. Morrison's interview doesn't disappoint.

This article is not only seriously intellectually stimulating, it's also full of that great food innuendo you've learned to love.

Morrison chats with the Guardian on the other side of the pond—about her books, Obama, and much more.

Another Morrison interview, this time with Salon. The awesomeness keeps coming fast and furious.

If there's any book that needs a musical accompaniment, Jazz is it. Here's the very tip of the jazz iceberg.

We squealed with joy when we saw just how much Morrison goodness happens in this video.

The History channel does Jazz in its video on the Harlem Renaissance.

Straight from Morrison herself, her thoughts on process and why she writes at all—especially about the past.

A jazzy 1926 track for your enjoyment.

It doesn't surprise us in the least that Morrison has had some ghostly experience. What was Dorcas if not a ghost girl?

Decades years after receiving the Nobel Prize, the accolades keep rolling in for Morrison and her work.

We couldn't let you finish up Jazz without throwing some jazz songs your way to get you started on your musical education. Here's a playlist of the greatest jazz songs of all time, compiled by thousands of voters.

This is a picture of a wedding party taken in Harlem, 1926. We want to time travel now, please.

The original cover art for Jazz was pretty awesome, and pretty pink.

A jazzy woman in 1920s Harlem.