American Jazz

• Place of Publication: Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
• Language: English
• Date of Publication: 1946
• Editors: James Asman & Bill Kinnell
• Publishers: Jazz Appreciation Society
• Type: Citation Only

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American Jazz was a two-issue set of booklets published by the Jazz Appreciation Society and edited by Bill Kinnell and James Asman. The editors note the great public desire for jazz publications following the war with the editors writing regular columns Fanfare, Challenge, and the Workers Musical Association (W.M.A.) Vox Pop. Through strong leftist politics, the editors and contributors write of on American jazz both from the perspective of structual issues such as racism and economic exploitation but also through specific musicians and recordings.

The first issue includes contributions from Hughes Panassié on New Orleans clarinetists, a brief memoir and discography by Art Hodes, Lew Eatson on specific Blue Note records, Don Emery on music in movies, John Vyse on jazz and race(ism), Ernest Baily Jr. and Bill Kinnell on Lu Watter’s Yerba Buena Band, Keith Dixon on Sidney de Paris, Matthew Hodgart on Ernest Hemingway, Wilfred Hayforb on the blues, George Duffield on jazz in England, and Les Partington on improvisation. Issue two features Irving L. Jacobs on Bunk Johnson at the Stuyvesant Casino, Donald Day on John Lomax and folk music, Pat Harper on jazz in Chicago, G. F. Gray Clarke on record collecting, James Asman on blues records, K. G. F. Allsop on the jazz scene in wartime India, and Tony Short on jazz and surrealism.