Seventy-five years ago, a new Chicago publication began chronicling a fast-growing music: the big bands. And though the touring ensembles started to fade by the late-1940s, DownBeat emerged as one of ...
DownBeat — which calls itself the world’s oldest jazz magazine — turns 75 this year. And the big anniversary has stirred memories at DownBeat’s main office in Elmhurst, a place where photos of jazz ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adewale Agboola and Cyrus Coleman are reimagining Old Town Portland’s Horizon Enterprise Building from the ground up. They bought ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University’s jazz studies program is boasting four awards from international magazine DownBeat in its 47th annual Student Music Awards. View the issue. Two recent ...
In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson declared: "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." There's no better proof than this remarkable anthology from DownBeat magazine, which ...
Dating back to their childhood days, audio engineers Mitch Wenig and Matt Carnes have been avid music lovers. Wenig grew up in the Bay Area; he built a backyard recording studio with his father, and ...
Portland's small-but-mighty Black community has voyaged to the establishment, considered a rarity for its focus on Black art.
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