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 until 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (which lasted 22 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." 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, 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
 * 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.