{{Short description|Jazz criticism magazine}} {{for|the British magazine (1998–2009)|Jazz Review}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2012}} {{Infobox magazine |title = The Jazz Review |image_file = |image_size = |image_caption = |founder = Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, Hsio Wen Shih |editor = Nat Hentoff & Martin Williams |editor_title = Co-editors |previous_editor = |staff_writer = |frequency = Monthly |total_circulation = |circulation_year = |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 |website = |issn = }} '''''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: {{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 * "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<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== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://jazzstudiesonline.org/ Jazz Studies Online]
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