Jazz & Pop

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Jazz & Pop
Jazz & Pop Oct. 1967 cover.jpg
Cover of the October 1967 issue of Jazz & Pop, featuring Milton Glaser's illustration of Bob Dylan
CategoriesMusic
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1962
Final issue1971 (1971)
CompanyJazz Press
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
ISSN 0021-5627

Jazz & Pop was an American music magazine that operated from 1962 to 1971. [1] It was launched as Jazz and managed by Pauline Rivelli, with finance provided by Bob Thiele, [2] the producer of jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines and Count Basie. [3] The publication served as a rival title to Down Beat magazine, [2] which had been established in the 1930s. [4]

The title of the publication changed to Jazz & Pop in August 1967. [2] Like Down Beat, the magazine began to cover popular music as a result of the widespread cultural recognition afforded the genre following the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; [5] in turn, mainstream American publications increasingly adopted jazz-style critiques to analyse rock music. [6] With the change of name, the magazine's editorial focus widened to include jazz music, rock, folk and blues. [2]

In its original incarnation as Jazz, the magazine's staff included jazz critics Don Heckman, George Hoefer, John Mehegan and Stanley Dance, while New York–based freelancers such as Don Riker also contributed. [7] From 1967 to 1970, its rock contributors included Gene Sculatti, Lenny Kaye and David G. Walley. [1] Also a musician, Kaye wrote an article on the doo-wop genre in Jazz & Pop that led to the start of his successful collaboration with singer and poet Patti Smith. [8] Between 1968 and 1971, [9] the editor of the magazine was Patricia Kennealy, who became romantically involved with Jim Morrison of the Doors after interviewing him for Jazz & Pop. [10] Robert Levin worked as the magazine's jazz editor, [11] while Frank Kofsky and D.C. Hunt also contributed jazz-related articles in the late 1960s. [12] When Ritchie Yorke wrote an article for the magazine disparaging rock critics, particularly Rolling Stone writer John Mendlesohn, it led to a terse response from Mendlesohn in the February 1971 issue of Phonograph Record , as he sought to justify his seemingly harsh approach to album reviews. [13]

From its early years of operation, the magazine published an annual international critics poll. [14] Referring to the 1967 poll, the website rockcritics.com recognizes it as originating from "right at the dawn of rock criticism". [15] The Pazz & Jop annual poll, founded by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau in 1971, was named in acknowledgement of the magazine. The ratings system used by Jazz & Pop was also adopted for Christgau's poll. [16]

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