Jazz Forum (historic periodical)

This article is about historic Jazz Forum that existed from 1946 to 1947. For the fifty-two-year-old Jazz Forum published out of Warsaw, see Jazz Journal (magazine).
Jazz Forum
Quarterly Review of Jazz and Literature
Editor Albert J. McCarthy (1920–1987)
Categories Music magazine
Frequency Quarterly
Publisher Delphic Press
Artin K. Shalian
(ne Harountune Kourken Shaljian; 1892–1964), President
Year founded 1946
Final issue 1947
Country England
Based in Fordingbridge, Hants
Language English
OCLC number 52254545

Jazz Forum was a Britain-based "quarterly review of jazz and literature" founded and edited by Albert J. McCarthy (1920–1987) and published by the Delphic Press from 1946 — surviving only five issues until 1947. According to jazz historians Peter Clayton and Peter Gammond, the publication was on the arty side, offering good features by distinguished contributors.[1] It was a short-lived but highly acclaimed experiment in linking jazz, poetry, literature, and graphic art in a post-World War II avant-garde British era. Several of the contributors were among the foremost Beat and modern writers of the time. The graphic art was also forward.[2] The publication had useful discographies of then under-rated musicians.[1][3] Contributors to the first 32-page issue included Stanley Dance, Charles Delaunay, Langston Hughes, Hugues Panassie in a mix of poetry and book reviews.

References

  1. 1 2 Biography: Albert McCarthy, by Eugene Chadbourne AllMusic Retrieved 19 September 2013)
  2. ↑ Review: Jazz Forum Magazine, (author unknown), posted on tumblr 15 June 2011
  3. ↑ Jazz, A–Z, by Peter Clayton and Peter Gammond, Guinness Superlatives (1986) OCLC 15353474


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