The Jazz Review was a jazz criticism magazine founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in New York City in 1958. It was published until 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (which lasted 22 issues).

Many issues of The Jazz Review are available at Jazz Studies Online, which assesses its quality as follows:

While all of the material is of high quality, several features are particularly distinctive: the regular reviews of musicians' work by other musicians; Hentoff's regular column "Jazz in Print", which deals with the politics of the music business as well as of the nation; and the incorporation of a wide range of musical styles and approaches to discussing jazz.^[1]

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:^[2]

• "Crying Mother Blues," Red Nelson
• "Six Cold Feet in the Ground," Leroy Carr
• "Patrol Wagon Blues," Henry Allen

Contributors

In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to The Jazz Review:

• Joachim Berendt
• Stanley Dance
• André Hodeir
• LeRoi Jones
• Orrin Keepnews
• Mimi Melnick
• Paul Oliver
• Harvey Pekar
• Ross Russell
• William Russo
• Gunther Schuller
• Hsio Wen Shih^[3]
• Studs Terkel

Later incarnation

A later California-based magazine also titled The Jazz Review, edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991–1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden, and other artists.