The Jazz Review

For the British magazine (1998–2009), see Jazz Review.

The Jazz Review was a magazine which was founded by Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, and Hsio Wen Shih, in New York City in 1958. It was published until 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence.

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.

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:

• 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, such writers as the following contributed articles to The Jazz Review:

• Joachim Berendt
• Stanley Dance
• André Hodeir
• LeRoi Jones
• Orrin Keepnews
• Paul Oliver
• Ross Russell
• William Russo
• Gunther Schuller
• Studs Terkel

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.

External links

• Jazz Studies Online