The Jazz Review Explained

The Jazz Review
Founder:	Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, Hsio Wen Shih
Editor:	Nat Hentoff & Martin Williams
Editor Title:	Co-editors
Frequency:	Monthly
Category:	Music magazine
Publisher:	Leonard Feldman, Israel Young
Founded:	1958
Firstdate:	Nov. 1958
Lastdate:	Jan. 1961
Company:	The Jazz Review, Inc.
Country:	U.S.A.
Based:	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: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:^[1]

• "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:

• 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^[2]
• Studs Terkel

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.

External links

• Jazz Studies Online

Notes and References

1. The Jazz Review, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1959, page 37, accessed printed copy 2016-01-29.
2. 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. Web site: The Jazz Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 1958, page 50 . 2016-01-29.