Summer 2026 issue of Journal of Jazz Studies (Vol. 17, No. 1) now available! Publication Notice NEW

The editors of the Journal of Jazz Studies are excited to announce the publication of the Summer 2026 issue of JJS (Vol. 17, No. 1), available now at jjs.libraries.rutgers.edu.

This issue features:

• “Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Secret Ambition: Unravelling the Mystery of Mrs. Louis Armstrong’s All-Girl Orchestra” by Jonathan Lindhorst.
• “The Case of Duke Ellington’s ‘The Sheik of Araby’: Complexities of Musical Borrowing in Sidney Bechet’s and Johnny Hodges’s Solos” by Hannah Krall.
• “The Blues Sentence: A Topology of John Coltrane’s Blues Heads” by Lukas Gabric.
• The Bridge: “Jazz, Japan, Analog: A Conversation,” a dialogue between Mark Katz and Kevin Fellezs about jazz listening cafés, or jazz kissa.
• From the Archives: “There Will Be Time for Jazz” by Institute of Jazz Studies archivist Benjamin Houtman.
• Book and Media Reviews: Sam Harris on Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams by Clifford R. Murphy, and Matthias Heyman on Artistic Research in Jazz: Positions, Theories, Methods, edited by Michael Kahr.

An open-access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University–Newark, the Journal of Jazz Studies (JJS) is dedicated to publishing leading-edge research on all aspects and iterations of jazz. The journal welcomes contributions from myriad disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to musicology, ethnomusicology, history, cultural studies, sound studies, music theory, and criticism. Submitted manuscripts should be accessible to a broad jazz audience.

Detailed guidelines for those interested in submitting to the journal can be found here: https://jjs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jjs/about/submissions

Questions? Contact the journal’s managing editor, Sean Lorre (sjlorre@mgsa.rutgers.edu).