The Earshot Jazz magazine archives exist in two distinct places. Both are free and available to the public.
The Special Collection at the Seattle Public Library (SPL) is a collaborative effort by Earshot Jazz and The Seattle Public Library to digitize the full back-run of Earshot Jazz magazine. The special collection at the Seattle Public Library is complete and goes back to the very first issue in 1984. The collection is searchable and browsable, and includes over 20,000 unique index terms. Browse the SPL collection.
The archives included on this website currently go back to the mid 2010’s — and older issues are being posted as you read this. Search this collection below or just scroll through the covers and click away. Enjoy!
We would like to acknowledge all those who worked on and continue to work on the Earshot Jazz Magazine Archive Project.
Foremost, we would like to thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their support. Their Jazz Ecosystem program, which supports activities that broaden public access to jazz, provided the necessary funds to ensure the success of this project.
We would like to thank The Seattle Public Library‘s Special Collections Department for all their hard work and commitment to documenting Seattle’s jazz history—in particular John LaMont, Genealogy Librarian, and Jade D’Addario, Digital Projects Librarian. We would also like to extend a special thanks to resident artist Steve Griggs for being the matchmaker between Earshot Jazz and the Special Collections Department.
Thank you to Earshot Jazz staff: Executive Director John Gilbreath for his vision to create a digital archive and efforts to secure the funding; Managing Director Karen Caropepe for helping to secure funding and for her project guidance; and Development and Marketing Associate Lucienne Aggarwal for managing the archive project, the project interns, and keeping the whole thing moving forward! Last, but not least, this undertaking could not have been completed without our two interns Samia Faour (Bachelor of Arts – Journalism, minor – Music Studies) and Sarrah Trapp (Master of Library and Information Science) who created the descriptions and index terms for each magazine. A special thanks goes to Sarrah for her ongoing support and past contributions regarding indexing, library information systems, scanning, and metadata.
The Earshot Jazz Collection at the Seattle Public Library is a collaborative effort to digitize the full back-run of Earshot Jazz magazine. The collection is searchable and browsable, and includes over 20,000 unique index terms. This project was funded with major support from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Go to the digital collection stored at the Seattle Public Library (SPL) for a different experience.
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