Journal Most Widely-Known and Disseminated

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 Music [Yearbook] (Chicago, IL, 1957-1963)

Lacunae: Yearbook for 1956 (vol. 1). A copy of issue could not be located.

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

Jazz: The Metronome Yearbook (New York, NY, 1950-1959)

Lacunae: 1952 (vol. 3). A copy of this issue could not be located and may never have been published.

JazzTimes (Washington, DC, 1980-)

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

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

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

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