Jazz

Below are a few select journal and magazine resources. You will find a more complete list of both print and online periodicals by searching the subject heading Jazz periodicals in the Library catalogue.

Print periodicals are available on the 5th floor of the Music Library. Online journals may require McGill login credentials.

Select academic journals:

• Annual Review of Jazz Studies (1982-2009)
  Continued by the Journal of Jazz Studies
• Black Music Research Journal
  Available online and in print
• Critical Studies in Improvisation
• Jazz Perspectives
• Journal of Jazz Studies (1973-1979)
  Continued by the Annual Review of Jazz Studies
  Revived online in 2011

Online magazines:

• RIPM Jazz Periodicals

  • Unique collection created in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University which provides access to 105 historical jazz magazines such as Down Beat, 78 Quarterly, Jazz, The Grackle, The Jazz Review, Jazzbeat etc.;
  • Keyword search function allows users to easily identify content in hundreds of issues;
  • A comprehensive primary source reference and research tool.

Print magazines available in the Library: 

• Coda 
• DownBeat 
• Jazz magazine
• Jazziz
• Planet jazz
• The Wire

Periodicals on microfilm:

The Music Library owns runs of several significant jazz periodicals on microfilm published from 1914-1977. Ask at the 3rd-floor staff area to access the following: 

• Australian Jazz Quarterly
  no.1 (1946:May)-no.31 (1957)
• Billboard (1920s – )
• Les cahiers du jazz
  no 1(1959)-no 16/17 (1968)
• The Discophile
  no.1 (1948)-no.61 (1958)
• DownBeat (1937 – 1976)
• Jazz (Berkeley, CA)
  no.1 (1958:Oct.)-no.5 (1960:Winter)
• Jazz (Forest Hills, NY)
  v.1:no.1 (1942:June), v.1:no.5/6 (1943:Jan.)-v.1:no.10 (1943:Dec.)
• Jazz Magazine
  no 1 (1954:déc.)-no 123 (1965:oct.)
  no 125 (1965:déc.)-no 140 (1967:mars)
  no 142 (1967:mai)-no 148 (1967:nov.)
  no 196/206 (1972)-no 229/239 (1975)
  no 251/260 (1977)-no 279/388 (1989)
• Jazz Quarterly
  v.1 (1942)-v.2 (1946)
• Matrix
  no.1-no. 16, no.21-68, no.70, no.72-no.76, no.89, no.96-no.107/108
• NAJE Educator
  v.1 (1968)-v.9 (1977)
• Playback
  v.1 (1948)-v.4 (1952)
• Ragtime Review
  v.1 (1914)-v.4 (1918)
• The Second Line
  v.1 (1950:Apr.)-v.28 (1976:fall)

• McGill users only
• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record