Announcements

RIPM Jazz Periodicals has been updated with 20 new publications and additional issues of three others. RIPM Jazz now contains 185 jazz periodicals, some 250,000 pages and 464,000 citation records. New content includes the following:

Six new journals from Italy:

• Jazz Land (Milan, 1963-1965)

• Jazz. Bollettino di informazioni del Circolo Triestino jazz (Trieste, 1963-1965)

• Blu Jazz (Rome, 1989-1995)

• Sismografo (Rome, 1992-1999)

• Jazz not jazz (Palermo, 1993-1995)

• Nerosubianco (Rome, 1993-1994)

Additional content from France:

• Jazz Tango Dancing (Paris, 1931-1934) Additional issues added

• L'Orchestre jazz-tango (Paris, 1936-1939) Additional issues added

• Jazz hot [1er série] (Paris, 1935-1939) *Improved scans now available

• Jazz Hot [2me série] (Paris, 1945-1955)

• Jazz 47 (Paris, 1947)

• Jazz Informations (Paris, 1949)

• Jazz Hot L'annuaire du Jazz (Paris, 1950-1953) 

English-language content, including citation-only journals:

• American Jazz (Nottinghamshire, 1946) *Citation only

• Jazzology (London, 1944-1947) *Citation only

• Jazz and Blues (London, 1971-1973) *Citation only

• Jazz Junction Jive (London, 1943-1945) *Citation only

• Jazz Notebook (Nottinghamshire, 1950-1966) *Citation only

• Jazz Forum (Fordingbridge, 1946-1947) *Citation only

• Storyville (Chigwell and London, 1965-2003) *Citation only

• Jazz Capsule (Brooklyn, NY 1943-1946)

• InterPlay (Oakland, CA, 1981)

• Orchestra World (Kutztown, PA and New York City, 1925-1953)

• The Ragtime Review (Florissant, MO 1962-1966)

RIPM Jazz will be updated again in 2026 which will include a very important, long running title to be announced in the new year.

To highlight the broadening international coverage in RIPM Jazz, RIPM will participate in two events in Italy this week. First, at the Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna “Giovan Battista Martini,” morning presentations will be given by Luciano Scarpaci, Nicoletta Betta, and Benjamin Knysak followed by two afternoon lectures by Stefano Zenni and Marcello Piras.

At the conference of the Società italiana di musicologia (SIDM) in Torino on Friday, Betta will chair a session devoted to jazz in Italy, with presentations by Knysak, Fabrizio Basciano, Claudio Palagini, and Piras.

We look forward to seeing many colleagues there!

Per valorizzare la crescente diffusione internazionale di RIPM Jazz, RIPM parteciperà questa settimana a due eventi in Italia. Giovedi 24 ottobre, al Conservatorio di Musica “Giovan Battista Martini” di Bologna, si terrà una giornata di studio con interventi di Luciano Scarpaci, Nicoletta Betta e Benjamin Knysak, seguiti nel pomeriggio da due conferenze di Stefano Zenni e Marcello Piras.

Venerdì 25, al convegno annuale della SIDM - Società Italiana di Musicologia a Torino, Betta presiederà una sessione dedicata al jazz in Italia, con relazioni di Knysak, Fabrizio Basciano, Claudio Palagini e Marcello Piras.

Una graditissima occasione di incontro con molti colleghi!

In October 2025, RIPM Jazz will load 22 new journals. These will include a first installment of Italian publications, spanning 1963 to 1999. Inclusion of further Italian journals is planned. Three new French journals, along with additional issues of previously-released journals from France, including Jazz hot (1945-1954), will be loaded. Most of very rare The Orchestra World (New York, 1925-1953) will also be loaded.

Descriptive texts about the periodicals in RIPM Jazz are becoming available here on ripmjazz.org. These short texts describe the editorial focus, contributors, content, and context of each title in RIPM Jazz and are written by RIPM staff and jazz scholars. Some 100 are already available.

In December 2024, significant new content and user interface features have been loaded on RIPM Jazz Periodicals. These updates will be live on the RIPM platform in mid-December and on EBSCOHost in January 2025.

• 28 new journals added.

  • 14 new full text journals including titles from the United States and France.

  • 14 citation-only journals from the United Kingdom.

• Additional citation metadata for improved citation searchability.

  • This metadata includes new citation record types, display of article section titles, descriptive terms, and expanded use of equivalences.

  • On the RIPM interface, this metadata can be found via Citation Search and Browse Table of Contents.

  • On the EBSCO interface, this metadata will improve search and can be found in the full record display.

• Improved full-text linking on EBSCOHost.

With this update, RIPM will occasionally load certain journals in a citation-only format. If full text reproduction rights become available, we shall load the full text of the journals, also.

RIPM Jazz will now contain 165 periodicals, over 420,000 citation records, and some 210,000 full text pages. Much more is planned for RIPM Jazz in 2025!

For a complete list of journals added, see the Autumn 2024 update.

At the annual IAML Congress, this year held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, RIPM presented a general session on Thursday, 27 June which featured three papers.

Senior Editor Nicoletta Betta first summarized the latest activities of RIPM, followed by University of Pretoria Professor Clorinda Panebianco's historical survey of South African music journals. RIPM Executive Editor Benjamin Knysak concluded the session with his paper "Fires of our Heartbeats: South African Jazz in the International Jazz Press."

RIPM Jazz Periodicals is now also available on EBSCOHost in addition to RIPM's own platform. The EBSCO build contains the same content which is currently available on RIPM's platform — 138 journals as of April 2024 — and allows users to search RIPM Jazz's contents alongside other EBSCOHost databases. Existing subscribers to RIPM Jazz will continue to receive access via RIPM's platform.

Future content updates will be available on both platforms. For more information, please visit the EBSCO website or read the press release.

In October 2023 significant new content, metadata, and user interface features will appear on RIPM Jazz Periodicals:

• 13 new journals added, including RIPM Jazz‘s first European journals. Among these are important publications from France and Spain documenting jazz in the 1930s and 1940s, with such titles as Jazz hot (Paris, 1935-1939, first series), Jazz-tango and Jazz-tango dancing (Paris, 1930-1934), and Ritmo y melodia (Barcelona, 1944-1951). Also added will be Jazz and Jazz & Pop (New York, 1962-1971), the well-regarded magazine founded by Bob Thiele and edited successively by Dan Morgenstern, Pauline Rivelli, Patricia Kennealy, and Janice Coughlan.

• New metadata for images. Newly added will be more than 107,000 searchable and browsable records for images, allowing more direct access to the copious amount of photography found throughout RIPM Jazz Periodicals.

• New search and display features. To support multiple languages and image metadata, new search and browse features will be added to the interface. Additional image tools to permit 2-up display and page rotation, will also be added.

With this update, RIPM Jazz will contain 138 periodicals, over 350,000 citation records, and 204,000 full text pages. Much more is planned for RIPM Jazz in 2024!

For a complete list of journals added, see the Autumn 2023 update.

Exciting new updates are coming in Fall 2023! Among these will be:

• Journals from France and Spain: the first journals added to RIPM Jazz from outside of the United States

• New American journals, including Jazz and Jazz and Pop

• More than 107,000 newly-created citations for illustrations, largely photography, across all journals in the database

More information will be available in October. For all questions, please email info@ripm.org.

Six new journals have been added to RIPM Jazz Periodicals. Headlining this update is JazzTimes, a monthly magazine which was described by the New York Times as “one of the world’s leading jazz publications.” Inclusion of JazzTimes increases coverage of jazz in the latter quarter of the twentieth century and adds another major journal to the collection.

Also included in the update are the following titles:

• Blue Flame (Chicago, 1970-1972)

• KC Jazz (Kansas City, 1978)

• Jazz Spotlite News: African American Classical Music/Jazz (New York, 1979-1980)

• Wavelength (New Orleans, 1980-1991)

• The Jazz Link (San Diego, 1988-1991)

RIPM Jazz Periodicals now contains 125 journals, more than 150,000 citation records, and nearly 200,000 pages. Exciting updates are planned for 2023!

RIPM is pleased to announce the addition of JazzTimes, “the flagship of the jazz press,”¹ to RIPM Jazz Periodicals as part of its Fall 2022 update. The journal’s publication run will be available in full text and with full citations from 1980 through the year 2000.

JazzTimes remains “one of the most successful and influential journals of its kind.”² The magazine was founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin as a supplemental newsletter for his Washington, D.C. record store. In 1980, after a decade of steady growth and several titles changes, Sabin settled on calling his publication, JazzTimes, at the suggestion of critic Leonard Feather. Jazz icon Dizzy Gillespie was the magazine’s first subscriber.

With the release of JazzTimes, RIPM Jazz Periodicals will contain the only available online, full-text collection of Ira Sabin’s influential titles:

• Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz USA (1972-1975)

• Radio Free Jazz (1975-1980)

• JazzTimes (1980-2000)

RIPM has completed a significant update to RIPM Jazz Periodicals which includes both new search features and new journals. Users will now have access to the following:

• Citation Search searches author and article title records. RIPM has created citation records for titled journal content, including articles, news items, columns, sheet music, and record reviews.

• Browse Tables of Contents permits users to view each journal issue’s author-title records. Each citation record is linked to the corresponding full-text journal page.

• A new, expanded help menu better assists and facilitates user experience.

Six new titles and one with expanded coverage:

• Bright Moments (Newark, NJ, 1985)

• Different Drummer (Rochester, NY, 1973-1975)

• Different Drummer (Rochester, NY, 1973-1975)

• Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing (Chicago, IL, 1939)

• Expansions (New York, NY, 1971-1975)

• Radio Free Jazz (Washington, DC, 1975-1980)

• Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz! USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975)

• The Second Line (New Orleans, LA, additional years 1964-2009 added)

RIPM has completed the first update to RIPM Jazz Periodicals. The new titles added to the collection are:

• C.R.C Newsletter (Decatur, GA, 1975-1987)

• C.R.C. Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)

• Gene Lees Jazzletter (Ojai, California, 1981-2008)

• Jazzbeat (New Orleans, LA, 1989-2010)

• Riffs (Arlington, TX, 1977-1978)

• The New Regime (Chicago, IL, 1969-1971)

• Whiskey, Women, and… (Haverhill, MA, 1971-1989)

For more information about each new journal, click on TODO: Link to ‘Fall 2020 Update’.

RIPM will expand its coverage of the American jazz press by adding seven new titles to RIPM Jazz Periodicals in 2020, bringing the total to 112 out-of-print, full-text jazz journals and magazines published from 1914 to 2010. For more information about new journals, click on ‘Forthcoming Titles’.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals is now available! For institutional trial and subscription information, click on ‘Request a Trial or Quote’.

After significant work and unforeseen delays, RIPM is pleased to announce a Spring 2019 release of RIPM Jazz Periodicals. The collection will debut with 105 rare, full-text periodicals published from 1914 to 2006. The collection will consist initially of American (U. S.) publications; forthcoming updates will include periodicals published in Europe and Canada.

With the digitization of its one-hundredth journal, RIPM has completed processing the first installment of RIPM Jazz Periodicals, the second title in its Preservation Series. Undertaken with the collaboration of the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University, which houses the largest collection of jazz periodicals in the world, the first phase of RIPM Jazz Periodicals will consist of 100 full-text American (U.S.) journals published from the 1910s to 2000. The publication will be released in early 2019 exclusively on the RIPMPlus Platform.

RIPM in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and RIPM Partner and Participating Libraries, will create a new publication, RIPM Jazz Periodicals. Announced at the 2015 IAML/IMS Congress in New York City, this collection will initially contain 100 full text American jazz journals published between 1920 and approximately the year 2000. Significant journals will include, among others, Cadence, Mississippi Rag, and Record Changer.