The Jazz Review

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{{Short description|Jazz criticism magazine}}
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|founder = [[Nat Hentoff]], [[Martin Williams (writer)|Martin Williams]], Hsio Wen Shih
|editor = [[Nat Hentoff]] & [[Martin Williams (writer)|Martin Williams]]
|editor_title = Co-editors
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|frequency = Monthly
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|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]]
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'''''The Jazz Review''''' was a [[jazz]] criticism magazine founded by [[Nat Hentoff]] and [[Martin Williams (writer)|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:
{{blockquote|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.<ref>{{cite web| title = ''The Jazz Review'' : Jazz Studies Online | url = http://jazzstudiesonline.org/content/jazz-review | accessdate=2016-01-29}}</ref>}}
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:<ref> ''The Jazz Review'', Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1959, page 37, accessed printed copy 2016-01-29.</ref>

* "Crying Mother Blues," [[Red Nelson (musician)|Red Nelson]]
* "Six Cold Feet in the Ground," [[Leroy Carr]]
* "Patrol Wagon Blues," [[Red Allen|Henry Allen]]

==Contributors==
In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to ''The Jazz Review'':
* [[Joachim-Ernst Berendt|Joachim Berendt]]
* [[Stanley Dance]]
* [[André Hodeir]]
* [[Amiri Baraka|LeRoi Jones]]
* [[Orrin Keepnews]]
* [[Mimi Melnick]]
* [[Paul Oliver]]
* [[Harvey Pekar]]
* [[Ross Russell (jazz)|Ross Russell]]
* [[William Russo (musician)|William Russo]]
* [[Gunther Schuller]]
* Hsio Wen Shih<ref>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. {{cite web| title = ''The Jazz Review'', Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 1958, page 50 | url = http://jazzstudiesonline.org/resource/jazz-review-vol1-no1-nov-1958 | accessdate=2016-01-29}}</ref>
* [[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.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://jazzstudiesonline.org/ Jazz Studies Online]

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