Popularity Polls

All-American Band Leaders (Springfield, MA, 1942-1943)

Continued by: Band Leaders (Mount Morris, IL, 1943-1946)

American Jazz Monthly (Whitestone, NY, 1944-1945)

Continued by: American Jazz Review (New York, NY, 1945-1947)

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)

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

CRC Newsletter (Decatur, GA, 1975-1987)

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

Added in the Fall 2020 update

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.

Encyclopedia Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1956)

Continued by: New Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1958)

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.

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

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: 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.

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)

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)

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

New Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1958)

Preceded by: Encyclopedia Yearbook of Jazz (New York, NY, 1956)

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

Record Whirl (Chicago, IL, 1955-1956)

Lacunae: Vol. 1 no. 1, 3-4. A copy of these issues could not be located.

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.

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