
5/4 Magazine (Seattle, WA, 1995-1998)
“Exploring Jazz from Mainstream to Offbeat”
“Exploring Jazz from Mainstream to Offbeat”
“When 78 Quarterly first appeared in 1967, it was the most sumptuously prepared periodical on blues and jazz 78 rpm records of its time, with
Continued by: Band Leaders (Mount Morris, IL, 1943-1946)
Continued by: American Jazz Review (New York, NY, 1945-1947)
Preceded by: American Jazz Monthly (Whitestone, NY, 1944-1945)
Preceded by: All-American Band Leaders (Springfield, MA, 1942-1943)
Continued by: Band Leaders and Record Review (Mount Morris, IL, 1946-1947)
Preceded by: Band Leaders (Mount Morris, IL, 1943-1946)
Continued by: Radio and Record Stars (Mount Morris, IL, 1947)
Preceded by: Bandwagon (New York, NY, 1939)
Continued by: Bandmagazine (New York, NY, 1939)
Continued by: The New Baton (Dunellen, NJ, 1944-1945)
“Frustrated with the lack of published coverage of truly creative music, Robert Rusch founded Cadence magazine in 1975 to give a voice to avant-garde artists
Continued by: Music News (Hollywood, CA, 1952)
Continued by: Swing: The Guide to Modern Music (Detroit, MI, 1938-1939; New York, NY, 1939-1941)
Continued by: Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1916-1918)
“In New Orleans, Lawrence Lipton singled out Robert Cass for starting the magazine, Climax: A creative review in the jazz spirit in 1955. At the
Preceded by: CRC Newsletter (Decatur, GA, 1975-1987)
Continued by: Jazzbeat (New Orleans, LA, 1989-2010)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Continued by: CRC Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Preceded by: Detroit Jazz Monthly (Troy, MI, 1995-1997)
Continued by: Detroit Jazz (Troy, MI, 1997-2000)
“Race relations, sexual equality, unionism, wars, recessions, birth, life, death, the triumph of the will, the battle of the soul: it spills across the pages
Lacunae: Yearbook for 1956 (vol. 1). A copy of issue could not be located.
Continued by: New Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1958)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Numeration irregularities: Vol. 3 (1949) skips no. 2.
“Ron Welburn began his prolific career in music (and literary) criticism in the late 1960s. He helped found the important journal The Grackle in 1976.
Lacunae: Vol. 2 no. 1.
Continued by: Jazz Digest (McLean, VA, 1972-1974)
“A Bay Area magazine for jazz & related music”
Continued by: Jazz & Pop (New York, 1967-1971)
Continued by: Jazz [Second Series] (New York, NY, 1944-1945)
Preceded by: Jazz [First Series] (New York, NY, 1942-1943)
Preceded by: Jazz (New York, 1962-1967)
Lacunae: Vol. 3 nos. 1-4, 6; Vol. 4 no. 1.
Continued by: The Second Line (New Orleans, LA, 1950-1976 (+))
Preceded by: Hip (Milwaukee, WI, 1962-1967; McLean, VA, 1967-1971)
Lacunae: Vol. 1 nos. 1-5. A copy of these issues could not be located.
“Jazz Information, started by Ralph Gleason, Ralph de Toledano, and Gene Williams, began was a purveyor of discographical and collector’s information, leavened by vitriolic responses
“Jazz Magazine was a short-lived but very high-quality publication that existed during the latter half of the 1970’s, ceasing publication in 1980. While the fledgling
Lacunae: Vol. 1; Vol. 2 no. 3, Vol. 5 no. 1. A copy of these issues could not be located.
“The Jazz Record was unusual among jazz magazines in that its founder and editor was a renowned jazz musician—pianist Art Hodes. Begun as a bi-weekly,
Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 3
Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 2-3, 12; Vol. 2 no. 1, 3. A copy of these issues could not be located.
“Founded by Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams, and Hsio Wen Shih in New York in 1958, The Jazz Review was the premier journal of jazz in
Lacunae: 1952 (vol. 3). A copy of this issue could not be located and may never have been published.
Preceded by: CRC Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Continued by: Playback (New Orleans, LA, 1949-1952)
Lacunae: Vol. 64 no. 3. Although Metronome began publication in 1885, in 1932/33 the journal began shifting its editorial focus to jazz. Included here are the
Lacunae: Vol. 8 no. 12, Vol. 13 no. 10. “The Mississippi Rag was the most successful magazine devoted to traditional jazz and ragtime and it
“With its lurid headlines and daring (for the early 1940s) ‘cheesecake’ photography, Music and Rhythm was clearly intended as a commercial venture. Its general tone
Continued by: Music Memories Monthly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)
Preceded by: Music Memories Quarterly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)
Preceded by: Music Memories (Birmingham, AL, 1961-1962)
Continued by: Music Memories Quarterly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)
Preceded by: Music Memories Monthly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)
Continued by: Music Memories and Jazz Report (Birmingham, AL, 1963-1965)
Preceded by: The Capitol: News from Hollywood (Hollywood, CA, 1943-1952)
Continued by: Music Views (Hollywood, CA, 1952-1959)
Preceded by: Music News (Hollywood, CA, 1952)
“This short-lived monthly, edited and published by Robert Reynolds, was distinguished well out of proportion to its brief run. Among the significant writings to appear
Preceded by: The Baton (Detroit, MI, 1941-1943)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Preceded by: Encyclopedia Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1956)
Preceded by: Jazzfinder (New Orleans, LA, 1948-1949)
Preceded by: Band Leaders and Record Review (Mount Morris, IL, 1946-1947)
Preceded by: Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975)
Preceded by: Christensen’s Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1914-1916)
Lacunae: Vol. 7 no. 1. A copy of this issue could not be located; the issue may never have been published. “The Record Changer was
Lacunae: Nos. 3, 13, 44, 134, 137-38. Numeration irregularities: Initially maintains two parallel issue numerations, one for each volume and one for the cumulative run. This
Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 1, 3-4. A copy of these issues could not be located.
Lacunae: Vol. 1 nos. 1-4, 7; Vol. 2 no. 3. A copy of these issues could not be located. Issues 5 and 6 of Volume 1
Lacunae: Nos. 18, 50. A copy of these issues could not be located.
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Continued by: Radio Free Jazz (Washington, DC, 1975-1980)
Preceded by: The Jazz Club Bulletin (New Orleans, LA, 1950)
Additional years 1964-2009 added in the Fall 2021 update.
Lacunae: Unknown. Volume and issue numeration is irregular but all issues known to the editor have been reproduced.
Preceded by: The Cat’s Meow (Detroit, MI, 1938)
Added in the Fall 2020 update