RIPM Jazz Named a Database of the Year by Library Journal
Library Journal named RIPM Jazz Periodicals as one of its Databases of the Year for 2025. An ever-growing resource, RIPM Jazz now contains 185 periodicals, 212000 pages, 464000 citations. Much more is to come in 2026!
Europe Beckons
“I think the European audience is more receptive to jazz than the American audience. They are more willing to listen to new things and experiment. They are also more interested in the music itself, rather than the personality of the musician ... In Europe, jazz musicians are treated like artists. They are not just entertainers.”
— Coleman Hawkins
RIPM Jazz has begun including content from Europe. Forty-two journals from France, Spain, Italy, and the UK have been loaded. More content from throughout Europe will be included in forthcoming updates.
“RIPM Jazz Periodicals stands to revolutionize this field by giving jazz researchers a huge common vocabulary of historical material.”
— Carlos Peña, University of Pittsburgh Music Library Association Notes, March 2020
Now Available: Italian Publications
The Autumn 2025 update to RIPM Jazz adds 22 new journals including the first publications from Italy. For a complete list of all Italian titles, click on the link below.
Now Available: Orchestra World
The Autumn 2025 update to RIPM Jazz adds 22 new journals. Included in this update is The Orchestra World (New York, 1926-1953), along with three other titles from the US and seven from the UK. For a full list of all newly added titles, click on the button below.
Now Available: Additional French Publications
The 2025 autumn update added three new French journals and additional issues of others, including Jazz Hot from 1945 to 1954. For a complete list of all recently added publications, click on the link below.
SEARCH 185 PERIODICALS WITH ADVANCED TOOLS, KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTING, Easily move from reference to reference
Find what you are looking for and make new discoveries quickly with full-text search, browse mode, table of content browsing, and record type and citation searches. Easily navigate to other pages and journals. Become immersed in jazz history.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals is now also available on EBSCOHost
RIPM Jazz Periodicals is now available on EBSCOHost in addition to RIPM's own platform. The EBSCO build contains the same content which is currently available on RIPM's platform — 138 journals as of April 2024 — and allows users to search RIPM Jazz's contents alongside other EBSCOHost databases.
A CONSTANTLY GROWING, INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE
An essential, unique collection of jazz periodicals, of great importance to any lover of jazz and its history, and a primary source reference and research tool for all libraries.