ABSTRACT
SEE INTERNATIONAL PHONOGRAPH AND INDESTRUCTIBLE RECORD CO., LTD.
SEE INTERNATIONAL PHONOGRAPH AND INDESTRUCTIBLE RECORD CO., LTD.
An organization of musicians, composers, record producers, distributors, journalists, collectors, and jazz fans; it is headquartered in London. It was founded in 1969 as the European Jazz Federation, then took its present name in 1975. IJF is associated with UNESCO, and is a member of the International Music Council. In 1983, the organization founded the Jazz World Database, with a listing of more than 50,000 recordings, as well as the Internet site JazzSociety.com as a clearinghouse for information on jazz.
