The Jazz Review
Jazz criticism magazine
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The Jazz Review was a jazz criticism magazine founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in New York City in 1958. It was published till 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (23 issues).
| Co-editors | Nat Hentoff & Martin Williams |
|---|---|
| Categories | Music magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Leonard Feldman, Israel Young |
| Founder | Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, Hsio Wen Shih |
| Founded | 1958 |
| First issue | Nov. 1958 |
| Final issue | Jan. 1961 |
| Company | The Jazz Review, Inc. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
Many issues of The Jazz Review are available at Jazz Studies Online, which assesses its quality as follows:
While all of the material is of high quality, several features are particularly distinctive: the regular reviews of musicians' work by other musicians; Hentoff's regular column "Jazz in Print", which deals with the politics of the music business as well as of the nation; and the incorporation of a wide range of musical styles and approaches to discussing jazz.[1]
A regular feature of The Jazz Review was "The Blues," a page of transcriptions of the lyrics from blues recordings by a variety of singers, e.g., in the seventh issue:[2]
- "Crying Mother Blues," Red Nelson
- "Six Cold Feet in the Ground," Leroy Carr
- "Patrol Wagon Blues," Henry Allen
Contributors
In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to The Jazz Review:
Later incarnation
A later California-based magazine also titled The Jazz Review, edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991–1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden, and other artists.
