The Jazz Review was a magazine which was founded by Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, and Hsio Wen Shih, in New York City in 1958. It was published until 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:
| “ | 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
Read more about The Jazz Review: Contributors
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