Jazz Digest: Volume One, Number One January 1966

New Orleans: Jazz Digest, 1966. Mimeograph. Side stapled. 10 pp. 8 ½ x 11 in. Very good, with wear and toning commensurate with age, and very small punctures throughout likely a result of printing or binding. Item #6797

Premiere issue of Jazz Digest, a New Orleans based jazz magazine that in a “relatively condensed form” looked to establish a “successful co-operative enterprise dealing with the jazz medium of expression.” This issue includes various essays (including a “How To Choose a Reed” guide), reviews of records from the preceding year, a catalog of the extremely scarce Black Patti recordings, and a note on the “Chicago scene.”

An example of the expansive DIY publishing culture around free jazz. Four copies located on OCLC as of February 2023.

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