The Jazz Review
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.
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:
- "Crying Mother Blues," Red Nelson
- "Six Cold Feet in the Ground," Leroy Carr
- "Patrol Wagon Blues," Henry Allen
Contributors
- 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
- Studs Terkel
Later incarnation