Cadence -- The Review of Jazz and Blues: Creative Improvised Music
Cadence Building, Redwood, NY 13679
Telephone: (315) 287-2852
Fax: (315) 287-2860
Articles, interviews, and scads of CD reviews, with an emphasis on free jazz and free improvisation. Cadence also acts as a mail-order distributor for countless independent record labels, and includes an exhaustive catalog in each issue.

Coda:The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
Box 1002, Station 'O', Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4A 2N4
Phone/fax: (416) 593-7230
This bimonthly Canadian journal is essential reading for anyone interested in creative jazz and improvised music. Includes news, in-depth CD and book reviews, and reports from major Canadian festivals. Recent issues of Coda have featured a survey of Seattle's improvised music scene and a review of the 1997 Seattle Improvised Music Festival.

Earshot Jazz
3429 Fremont Pl., #309, Seattle, WA 98103
Telephone: (206) 547-6763
Fax: (206) 547-6286, jazz@earshot.org
The free newsletter of Seattle's jazz organization offers a comprehensive jazz calendar, profiles of Northwest jazz musicians and improvisors, and reviews of CDs by local and international artists.

Improvijazzation Nation
An Olympia-based Web and print zine covering all forms of experimental and DIY music-making.

The Improvisor: International Journal on Free Improvisation
1705 12th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35205
Telephone/Fax: (205) 930-0914, touchles@sirius.com
The free improvisor's bible. Co-edited by longtime improvisors Davey Williams and La Donna Smith, this hefty tome contains dozens of provocative articles penned by improvisors worldwide, plus hundreds of CD and tape reviews and information of value to networking improvisors.

(Musings)
Online resource for free jazz, improvised and otherwise experimental music.

Signal to Noise: The Journal of Improvised & Experimental Music
492 US Route 2; Suite 1, South Hero, Vermont 05486
Telephone: (802)372-3982
Pete Gershon, editor/publisher; $15 for six issues, plus free CD sampler
This adventurous music publication for the Northeastern United States has been publishing bimonthly since Septmeber 1997. Actually an international journal, StN is limited to the Northeast only in its performance calendar. Expect the customary features and interviews, along with performance and recording reviews. Their Web site calendar listings are updated daily.

The Squid's Ear
A NYC-based music magazine and on-line calendar covering improvisational, avant, and experimental music from around the world, aiming deep into the conch shell of your cochlea to tickle your tinnitus.

The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music
45-46 Poland Street, London W1V 3DF, United Kingdom
Perhaps the best-written and most comprehensive publication dealing with creative music in all its forms, from free jazz to twentieth century classical to electronica. Available in Seattle at Wall of Sound, Pike Place Market newsstand, Borders Books, and Steve's Broadway News. Recent issues have spotlighted Seattle musicians Bill Horist, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, and Sun City Girls.