The Jazz Review was a magazine which was founded by Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff

Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal....

, Martin Williams

Martin Williams

Martin T. Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a critic, specializing in jazz and American popular culture. He wrote for major jazz magazines, notably Down Beat, cofounded and coedited The Jazz Review, and wrote many books on jazz, summing up his understanding of its history in The Jazz...

, and Hsio Wen Shih, in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 in 1958. It was published until 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence.

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:

• Crying Mother Blues, Red Nelson
• Six Cold Feet in the Ground, Leroy Carr
  Leroy Carr
  Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.-Life and...
  
  
• Patrol Wagon Blues, Henry Allen
  Red Allen
  Henry James "Red" Allen was a jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.-Life and career:...
  
  

Contributors

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

• Joachim Berendt
• Stanley Dance
  Stanley Dance
  Stanley Dance was a jazz writer and oral historian of the swing era.He began writing about the jazz scene for the French magazine Jazz Hot in 1935...
  
  
• André Hodeir
  André Hodeir
  André Hodeir was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist.-Biography:André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in...
  
  
• LeRoi Jones
• Orrin Keepnews
  Orrin Keepnews
  Orrin Keepnews is an American writer and jazz record producer. In June 2010, he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.- Career :...
  
  
• Paul Oliver
  Paul Oliver
  -Biography:Oliver was a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development , and from 1978-88 was Associate Head of the School of Architecture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Gloucestershire...
  
  
• Ross Russell
  Ross Russell
  Ross Russell was an American jazz producer and author. He was the founder of Dial Records....
  
  
• William Russo
  William Russo (musician)
  William Russo, better known as Bill Russo , was an American jazz musician. He is considered one of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers.-History:...
  
  
• Gunther Schuller
  Gunther Schuller
  Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...
  
  
• Studs Terkel
  Studs Terkel
  Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.-Early...