The Jazz Review, Vol.1, No.1 (Nov. 1958)

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Table of Contents: 

Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic
Improvisation by Gunther Schuller 6

Walter Page's Story as told to Frank Driggs 12

The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz, I
by Mimi Clar 16

Missing Moderns by Martin Williams 19

A View of Criticism by William Russo 20

Reviews: Recordings

Thelonious Monk by Gunther Schuller 22

Miles Davis by Dick Katz 28

Billie Holiday by Glenn Coulter 31

Langston Hughes by Glenn Coulter 33

John Lewis by Bob Brookmeyer 33

Miles Davis by Bob Brookmeyer 34

Jimmy Giuffre 3 by George Russell 35

Horace Silver by Bill Crow 35

King Oliver by Larry Gushee 36

Sonny Rollins by Art Farmer 37

Jelly Roll Morton by Guy Waterman 38

The Great Blues Singers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jimmy Rushing, Muddy Watters,
Little Walter by Hsio Wen Shih 39

Reviews: Books
John Clellon Holmes' The Horn by Orrin Keepnews 42

Shapiro-Hentoff The Jazz Makers by Glenn Coulter 43

Ralph Gleason's Jam Session by Orrin Keepnews 44

Barry Ulanov's Handbook of Jazz by Benny Green 44

Hugues Panassie's Discographie Critique Des Meilleurs
Disques de Jazz by Nat Hentoff 45

Reconsiderations 1 (Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller) by Martin William 46

The Blues 46

Jazz in Print by Nat Hentoff 47