Good news! Library fundraising goals for Hurricane Katrina relief have been exceeded through strong sales of its "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" CD. This compilation features nearly 70 minutes of music from the UNH Traditional Jazz Series. A very few copies are still available...click the album cover for more information!

The New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz (NHLTJ) was established in 1978 by Dorothy Prescott, a long-time supporter of traditional jazz music in New England.

The library's mission is to preserve the history of and foster the appreciation and future of traditional jazz music as an original American art form.

The NHLTJ promotes jazz in three major ways:

1. It maintains jazz archives comprising thousands of recordings, hundreds of jazz-related books, periodicals, photographs and videotapes, as well as unique materials that document the New England jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s.
2. It supports jazz events in the New Hampshire Seacoast, including the annual Tommy Gallant Scholarship Concert and the Tommy Gallant Seacoast Jazz Festival.
3. It co-produces with the UNH Music Department the Traditional Jazz Series, an annual series of on-campus jazz concerts now about to begin its 30th season.

Check out the Traditional Jazz Series lineup for the 2008-2009 season.