The Jazz Review was a jazz criticism magazine founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in New York City in 1958. It was published till 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (23 issues).
Many issues of The Jazz Review are available at Jazz Studies Online, which assesses its quality as follows:
A regular feature of The Jazz Review was "The Blues," a page of transcriptions of the lyrics from blues recordings by a variety of singers, e.g., in the seventh issue:
In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to The Jazz Review:
A later California-based magazine also titled The Jazz Review, edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991âÂÂ1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden, and other artists.