CADENCE MAGAZINE

Cadence Magazine is a quarterly (monthly until October 2007) review of jazz, blues and improvised music published in Redwood, New York by critic/historian Bob Rusch. The magazine covers a range of styles, from early jazz and blues to the avant-garde. The magazine's parent company, Cadnor, Ltd., also owns a pair of jazz record labels (C.I.M.P. and Cadence Jazz), a record distributorship (Cadence/North Country), and a high-end audio equipment retailer (Northcountry Audio).

The All Music Guide to Jazz has described Cadence as "the premier magazine about improvised music in the world.… Cadence's oral history/interview/profiles each month are thorough and no-holds-barred.… The magazine is not to be missed."[2]
Cadence Magazine is the most comprehensive resource of its kind available anywhere, packed full with the world's most complete English language coverage of the entire Jazz and Improvised Music scenes. Dedicated to the music and its subscribers, not advertisers, Cadence is a thorough and honest guide to and through the current Jazz and Improvised Music scenes for a loyal, worldwide readership of knowledgeable, hard-core improvised music fans who find things in Cadence they can't find anywhere else. Read more about this fine magazine here.

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Yearly Index A yearly index of cadence magazine. Priced per year. $5.00ppd
Sample Issue The current issue of Cadence Magazine $15.00 USA / $20 non-USA. ppd
One Year Subscription Standard Shipping USA 1 year of Cadence Magazine Starting with the current issue $50.00
One Year Subscription First Class Shipping USA 1 year of Cadence Magazine Starting with the current issue $63.00
One Year Subscription Airlift Shipping outside USA 1 year of Cadence Magazine Starting with the current issue $65.00

Back Issues of Cadence Magazine JAN 1976 - SEPT 2007 $7.00 USA / $10 non-USA. ppd
Back Issues of Cadence Magazine OCT 2007 - TO DATE $20.00ppd
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Cadence " Magazine is priceless archive of interviews, oral histories, book reviews, and more than [now 55,000] reviews so far of improvised music worldwide." The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

" . . . with superb coverage of virtually every jazz record released . . . In-depth interviews also cover artists' relations with the industry." Popular Music Periodicals Index

"The premier magazine about improvised music in the world . . . its range of coverage for improvised music worldwide ranks second to none. . . . Cadence's oral history/interview/profiles each month are thorough and no-holds-barred . . . The magazine is not to be missed." All Music Guide to Jazz

" . . . Cadence, the essential bulletin for the worldwide community of jazz fans." Hi-Fi News and Record Review

" No stone unturned here as they cover reissues, European, independent and individual releases. . . . The heart is the incredible amount of reviews and interviews. . . . An absolute must have for jazz fans." Victory Review

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Every issue of Cadence Magazine features substantive Interviews and Oral Histories News, and about 300 editorially independent Reviews. If you are serious about Jazz, Improvised Music, & Blues, you will value, enjoy, and use Cadence.

Published since 1976 and indexed yearly ($5 per yearly index), Cadence is an objective, inexpensive, nitty-gritty, bare-bones, everything-you-need-to-know monthly. We average hundreds of record reviews in every issue (with book and video reviews, too). These reviews are 100% editorially independent: our writers have complete freedom to express their opinions (records from our own sister labels have been known to get bad reviews); and everything sent, following our guidelines, to us for review gets reviewed, as long as it is within the Jazz, Blues, and/or Creative Improvised areas. Cadence started out on a kitchen table over 30 years ago and it has survived and thrived because its readers value, respect, and depend upon it.

Our interviews, which have run as long as 80,000 words, are substantive and professionally focused. For a listing of back issues, including past interviews check out the Cadence Back Issue page.


We also carry more than 100 Jazz book and video titles, along with the finest in analog and digital audio equipment. Well known to Jazz lovers around the world for providing sound advice and knowledgeable, quick service at a reasonable price, we stand by and for the music and our customers.
Subscription rates are listed above. Payment via visa/mc/discover, international money order, postal money order, checks drawn on US banks. Simply contact us by your method of choice and supply us with your Name, Address, Phone number, and email address.

The U.S. Postal Service now charges $10.40 to mail a single copy of Cadence internationally. This is just part of the inflationary costs implemented by the U.S. Postal Service over the past few years. As a result, single issues of Cadence going to an international destination will be sent out only as part of a bulk mailing from our offices, or as part of a CD/LP and/or audio order being sent to the individual.

So if you order an issue to be sent outside the USA one week after we have had a bulk mailing. . .be patient.

Thanks for your understanding.