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 (23 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