Jazz in the post-war years: In the early 1940s, bebop-style performers began to shift jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music." The most influential bebop musicians included saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach. Divorcing itself from dance music, bebop established itself more as an art form, thus lessening its potential popular and commercial appeal. Composer Gunther Schuller wrote, "In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians. They were playing all the flatted
Jazz Review holding company, which changed ownership, absorbed "Jazz Review" around April 2009. It was revived as "Jazz Journal" at the end of April. Direct Music was no longer involved in the publication. A later California-based magazine also titled "The Jazz Review", edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991-1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and other artists. Jazz Review Jazz Review was a Scottish jazz magazine, founded in 1998 by a former editor of "The Wire" and jazz writer Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh,