NEW! Jazz Primer
Anacortes Public Library (APL) welcomes you to the Jazz at the Library website. Located on Fidalgo Island in beautiful Anacortes, WA, the APL features an extensive collection of books, CDs, and DVDs about the uniquely American art of Jazz and Swing music. Funded by a generous endowment from the estate of Dominic and Patricia Manieri, the collection represents the entire history of Jazz, from the Juke joints and cathouses of New Orleans to the swank modern jazz clubs of New York and Chicago. Collection curator, Paul de Barros, Jazz critic for the Seattle Times, has compiled an incredible array of Jazz and Swing material, all available for check-out from the library.
In addition to the collection, the APL helps to fund and foster jazz education in the public schools through grants, sponsors local jazz events (including the monthly "2nd Sunday" concerts at the library), and is committed to the preservation and proliferation of jazz and swing through education, entertainment, and the collection itself.
Spend some time exploring Jazz at the Library. Look around the site. Come in to see and hear the collection. Celebrate jazz with us.
Featured Artist
J. J. JOHNSON
Indianapolis-born trombonist/composer J. J. Johnson virtually reinvented the trombone for the purposes of postwar jazz. A perfectionist in the realm of music and a man utterly dedicated to making the trombone do what he wanted, Johnson evolved a level of expertise previously undreamed of in jazz, his smooth delivery of the most complex passages amazing his peers. Johnson was also the man to bring bebop harmonic and rhythmic practice to the instrument.
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