Discographies

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78 Quarterly (Brooklyn, NY, 1967-1968; Key West, FL, 1988-1995, 2000, 2002)

“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

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)

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)

Bandstand (New York, NY, 1939)

Blue Flame (Chicago, IL, Wilmette– IL, 1970-1972)

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

The Capitol News from Hollywood (Hollywood, CA, 1943-1952)

Continued by: Music News (Hollywood, CA, 1952)

Clef (Santa Monica, CA, 1946)

CRC Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)

Preceded by: CRC Newsletter (Decatur, GA, 1975-1987)
Continued by: Jazzbeat (New Orleans, LA, 1989-2010)

Added in the Fall 2020 update

CRC Newsletter (Decatur, GA, 1975-1987)

Continued by: CRC Jazz Journal (New Orleans, LA, 1987-1989)

Added in the Fall 2020 update

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)

Disc: The Record Magazine (Mount Morris, IL, 1946)

Disc’ribe (Ann Arbor, MI, 1980-1982)

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

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

Esquire's Jazz Book (Chicago, IL; New York, NY, 1944-1947)

Good Diggin' (Portland, OR, 1947-1949)

Numeration irregularities: Vol. 3 (1949) skips no. 2.

GTJ & CR News (Los Angeles, CA, 1955-1961)

Lacunae: Vol. 2 no. 1.

Hip (Milwaukee, WI, 1962-1967; McLean, VA, 1967-1971)

Continued by: Jazz Digest (McLean, VA, 1972-1974)

HRS Society Rag (New York, NY, 1938-1941)

Jazz [First Series] (Forest Hills Station, NY; New York, NY, 1942-1943)

Continued by: Jazz [Second Series] (New York, NY, 1944-1945)

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)

Jazz Discounter (Evansville, IN, 1948-1951)

Lacunae: Vol. 1 nos. 1-5. A copy of these issues could not be located.

Jazz Notes (Newark, NJ, 1942)

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.

Jazz Quarterly (Kingsville, TX, 1942-43; Chicago, IL, 1944)

The Jazz Record (New York, NY, 1943-1947)

“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,

The Jazz Register (San Diego, CA, 1965-1966)

Jazz Report (Ventura, CA, 1960-1975)

Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 3

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)

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

Jazzfinder (New Orleans, LA, 1948-1949)

Continued by: Playback (New Orleans, LA, 1949-1952)

Jazzways (Cincinnati, OH, 1946; New York, NY, 1947)

Music Memories (Birmingham, AL, 1961-1962)

Continued by: Music Memories Monthly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)

Music Memories and Jazz Report (Birmingham, AL, 1963-1965)

Preceded by: Music Memories Quarterly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)

Music Memories Monthly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)

Preceded by: Music Memories (Birmingham, AL, 1961-1962)
Continued by: Music Memories Quarterly (Birmingham, AL, 1963)

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)

The Needle (Jackson Heights, NY, 1944-1945)

“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

Oh! Play that Thing (San Francisco, CA, 1948-1952)

Playback (New Orleans, LA, 1949-1952)

Preceded by: Jazzfinder (New Orleans, LA, 1948-1949)

Quarter Notes (Fresno, CA, 1962)

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

Preceded by: Sabin’s Radio Free Jazz USA (Washington, DC, 1972-1975)

The Record Changer (Washington, DC, 1942-1943; Fairfax, VA, 1943-1946; Washington, DC, 1946-1947; New York, NY, 1948-1955, 1957)

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

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