[78-L] Bob Thiele's "Jazz" magazine

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Does anyone know how many issues of Bob Thiele and Dann Preist's Jazz magazine there were? I just acquired the first four issues, but there is an ominous editorial in issue #4 that says that since both editors were drafted, nobody was left to publish further issues. The first three issues are dated June, July, and August 1942. The 4th issue, undated, is probably from September. It's quite a fascinating magazine, with record reviews, photos, and editorials. There's a hilarious column called "Grapes and Sour Grapes," in which the editor praises one person and blasts another for their respective actions in the jazz world. In the?2 issues that the column is in, the "Grapes" go to John Hammond and the Jazz Man Record Shop (which I am researching for a book). "Sour Grapes" go to James Petrillo (this was in the August 1942 issue) and RKO filmmaker William Dieterle for his "jazz documentary," "Syncopation."

Here's the last line of the slam against Petrillo:

"For now at last it can be seen with the naked eye that Petrillo's 'so-called' beneficial acts are just so much of that disagreeable matter often left by horses."

Cary Ginell
Origin Jazz Library
www.originjazz.com