1940s in jazz 1940s in jazz In the early 1940s in jazz, bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. It helped to shift jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music." Differing greatly from swing, early bebop divorced itself from dance music, establishing itself more as an art form but lessening its potential popular and commercial value. Since bebop was meant to be listened to, not danced to, it used faster tempos. Beboppers introduced new forms of chromaticism and dissonance into jazz; the dissonant tritone (or "flatted fifth") interval became the "most important interval of
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,