The Jazz Review
| 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 |
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).
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
[edit]In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to The Jazz Review:
- Joachim Berendt
- Stanley Dance
- André Hodeir
- LeRoi Jones
- Orrin Keepnews
- Mimi Melnick
- Paul Oliver
- Harvey Pekar
- Ross Russell
- William Russo
- Gunther Schuller
- Hsio Wen Shih[3]
- Studs Terkel
Later incarnation
[edit]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.
References
[edit]- ^ "The Jazz Review : Jazz Studies Online". Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ^ The Jazz Review, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1959, page 37, accessed printed copy 2016-01-29.
- ^ Hsio Wen Shih, who contributed an article on blues singers to the initial issue of The Jazz Review, was "an architect and expert in acoustics, ... a student of the music of many cultures", according to that issue. "The Jazz Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 1958, page 50". Retrieved January 29, 2016.
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