January 22, 2001 Jazz Sites by the Thousands, but Where's the Music? By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
The jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan is fond of calling bebop "the music that came before the Beatles — and after."
Television came before the Internet, and in the view of many jazz fans, it also arrived after. The nation's television screens have been aglow this month with the Ken Burns documentary series "Jazz," but on the Internet the hot links to jazz information have been illuminating computer users for some time.
There are thousands of musician, fan and commercial sites devoted to the genre, and online portals like AllAboutJazz.com, Jazz.About.com, JazzOnWeb.com and JazzReview.com give easy access to them. Search engines yield the track listings for out-of- print albums faster than you can say Dodo Marmarosa.
But one element is missing from this online scene: music.