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
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All-American Band Leaders (Springfield, MA, 1942-1943)
Continued by: Band Leaders (Mount Morris, IL, 1943-1946)
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)
The Baton (Detroit, MI, 1941-1943)
Continued by: The New Baton (Dunellen, NJ, 1944-1945)
Change (Detroit, MI, 1965-1966)
Christensen's Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1914-1916)
Continued by: Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1916-1918)
Dance Band Album (Greenwich, CT, 1942)
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
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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)
Expansions (New York, NY, 1971-1975)
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.
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Jazz [First Series] (Forest Hills Station, NY; New York, NY, 1942-1943)
Continued by: Jazz [Second Series] (New York, NY, 1944-1945)
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 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: A Quarterly of American Music (Berkeley, CA, 1958-1960)
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
Music and Rhythm (Chicago, IL, 1940-1942)
“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
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
The New Baton (Dunellen, NJ, 1944-1945)
Preceded by: The Baton (Detroit, MI, 1941-1943)
Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1916-1918)
Preceded by: Christensen’s Ragtime Review (Chicago, IL, 1914-1916)
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
Rhythm (New York, NY, 1946-1947)
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
Swing: Devoted to Modern Music (New York, NY, 1941)
