DownBeat The cover image of DownBeat’s Sept 7, 1978, issue, which featured in-depth coverage of President Jimmy Carter’s jazz picnic party on the White House’s South Lawn The historic gathering honored and was honored by a history of jazz that embraced everything from ragtime through the avant garde
DownBeat Magazine DownBeat Student Music Awards By Terry Perkins, Yoshi Kato, Sue Mahal Blindfold Test At 56, Rodney Whitaker, professor of jazz bass and director of jazz studies at Michigan State University, is equally distinguished in his parallel careers as educator and performer A son of Detroit, Whitaker’s performance c v includes consequential tenures
DownBeat Reviews EXPLORE PAST DOWNBEAT EDITOR’S PICKS: Editors’ Picks Archive On Sale Now June 2025 Theo Croker
DownBeat Magazine It was another great year, and once again, DownBeat has created an in-depth list of the 4, 4 5 and 5 star reviews we published in 2023
DownBeat Magazine Welcome to the 90th Anniversary Issue of DownBeat When planning the issue, we wanted to dip into our rich history, but also look at the present and future of this music! So, you see here a double issue
DownBeat Magazine “I’ve looked to be global for a long time,” Alfredo Rodriguez told DownBeat in 2020 “I like to explore music from every part of the world ”
DownBeat Magazine DownBeat readers named Charles Lloyd the Artist of the Year, Tenor Saxophonist of the Year and Flutist of the Year Oh, and they voted his latest recording, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note), Album of the Year
DownBeat Home During 1935 and 1936 DownBeat took a sharp turn from being a parochial little news and gossip sheet to becoming a credible national publication with a solid musician orientation and a particularly keen ear for jazz