5/4 Magazine (Seattle, WA, 1995-1998)
“Exploring Jazz from Mainstream to Offbeat”
Concert Reviews
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American Jazz Monthly (Whitestone, NY, 1944-1945)
Continued by: American Jazz Review (New York, NY, 1945-1947)
American Jazz Review (New York, NY, 1945-1947)
Preceded by: American Jazz Monthly (Whitestone, NY, 1944-1945)
Basin Street (New Orleans, LA, 1945-1946)
Blue Flame (Chicago, IL, Wilmette– IL, 1970-1972)
Lacunae: no. 1-8. A copy of these issues could not be located.
Bright Moments (Newark, NJ, 1985)
Lacunae: vol. 1 no. 1.
Cadence (Redwood, NY, 1976-2000)
“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
Change (Detroit, MI, 1965-1966)
Clef (Santa Monica, CA, 1946)
Detroit Jazz (Troy, MI, 1997-2000)
Preceded by: Detroit Jazz Monthly (Troy, MI, 1995-1997)
Detroit Jazz Monthly (Troy, MI, 1995-1997)
Continued by: Detroit Jazz (Troy, MI, 1997-2000)
Different Drummer (Rochester, NY, 1973-1975)
Down Beat (Chicago, IL, 1934-1963)
“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
Expansions (New York, NY, 1971-1975)
Numeration irregularities: Not all issues contain volume and issue designations.
Floy Floy (Chicago, IL, 1938)
Good Diggin' (Portland, OR, 1947-1949)
Numeration irregularities: Vol. 3 (1949) skips no. 2.
The Grackle (Brooklyn, NY, 1976-1979)
“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.
Hip (Milwaukee, WI, 1962-1967; McLean, VA, 1967-1971)
Continued by: Jazz Digest (McLean, VA, 1972-1974)
Jazz (New York, NY, 1962-1967)
Continued by: Jazz & Pop (New York, 1967-1971)
Jazz & Pop (New York, NY, 1967-1971)
Preceded by: Jazz (New York, 1962-1967)
The Jazz Blast (Mt. Ephraim, NJ, 1970-1973)
Lacunae: Vol. 3 nos. 1-4, 6; Vol. 4 no. 1.
Jazz Digest (McLean, VA, 1972-1974)
Preceded by: Hip (Milwaukee, WI, 1962-1967; McLean, VA, 1967-1971)
The Jazz Link (San Diego, CA, 1988-1991)
Jazz Magazine (Northport, NY, 1976-1980)
“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
Jazz Magazine (Barcelona, 1935-1936)
“Órgano oficial del ‘Hot Club’ de Barcelona”
Jazz news: Blue star review (Paris, France, 1948-1950)
Lacunae: Missing no. 10-11. These issues will be loaded in late 2024.
Jazz Notes (Indianapolis, IN, 1957-1965)
Lacunae: Vol. 1; Vol. 2 no. 3, Vol. 5 no. 1. A copy of these issues could not be located.
The Jazz Register (San Diego, CA, 1965-1966)
The Jazz Report (St. Louis, MO, 1953-1958; Chicago, IL, 1958-1960)
Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 2-3, 12; Vol. 2 no. 1, 3. A copy of these issues could not be located.
The Jazz Review (New York, NY, 1958-1961)
“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
The Jazz Session (Chicago, IL, 1944-1946)
Jazz Spotlite News: African-American Classical Music/Jazz (New York, NY, 1979-1980)
Lacunae: vol. 1 no. 1-2.
Jazz Today (New York, NY, 1956-1957)
Jazz hot [1er série] (Paris, France, 1935-1939)
Jazz: A Quarterly of American Music (Berkeley, CA, 1958-1960)
Jazzbeat (New Orleans, 1989-2010)
Preceded by: CRC Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Jazzette (Boston, MA, 1944-1945)
JazzTimes (Washington, DC, 1980-)
Revue du jazz, La (Paris, France, 1949-1950)
Mecca (New Orleans, LA, 1974)
Melody News (New York, NY, 1934-1935)
Metronome (New York, NY, 1932-1961)
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
Metronome - Music U.S.A. (New York, NY, 1959-1959)
The Mississippi Rag (Minneapolis, MN, 1973-2006)
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
The Music Dial (New York, NY, 1943-1945)
Lacunae: Missing vol. 1 no. 3. This issue could not be located. Numeration irregularities: vol. 2 no. 1 was published as vol. 1 no. 13.
The New Regime (Chicago, IL, 1969)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Platter Chatter (Seattle, WA, 1945-1947)
Radio Free Jazz (Washington, DC, 1975-1980)
Preceded by: Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975)
Record Research (Brooklyn, NY, 1955-1977)
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
Riffs: Jazz and Blues Review Magazine (Arlington, TX, 1977-1978)
Added in the Fall 2020 update
Ritmo y melodia (Barcelona, 1944-1951)
Lacunae: Missing vol. 5 no. 31-36.
Sabin's Radio Free Jazz USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975)
Continued by: Radio Free Jazz (Washington, DC, 1975-1980)
The Second Line (New Orleans, LA, 1950-2009)
Preceded by: The Jazz Club Bulletin (New Orleans, LA, 1950)
Additional years 1964-2009 added in the Fall 2021 update.
The Soul and Jazz Record (Hollywood, CA, 1975-1977)
Lacunae: Unknown. Volume and issue numeration is irregular but all issues known to the editor have been reproduced.
Swing: Devoted to Modern Music (New York, NY, 1941)
Swing: The Guide to Modern Music (Detroit, MI, 1938-1939; New York, NY, 1939-1941)
Preceded by: The Cat’s Meow (Detroit, MI, 1938)
Wavelength (New Orleans, LA, 1980-1991)
The Wheel (Kannapolis, NC, 1948)
Whiskey, Women, and... (Haverhill, MA, 1971-1989)
Added in the Fall 2020 update