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Dec 12, 2023 · DownBeat’s annual list of the top albums reviewed in the magazine gives a glimpse. Of course, it does not include those year-end beauties due to publishing deadlines, but there’s plenty of great music to dig into.
Aug 27, 2024 · Guitarist and bandleader Russell Malone died Aug. 23, while on tour in Japan, after battling end-stage kidney failure. He was 60.
Oct 17, 2023 · With her iconic bangs, sharp features and free-flowing sense of the absurd, Carla Bley, who died Oct. 17 of brain cancer at age 87, was unable to go unnoticed in the male-dominated jazz world of the ’70s and ’80s.
Jul 2, 2024 · July 1 was the 65th anniversary of the biggest-selling jazz song of all time, “Take Five,” recorded that day in 1959 by the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet. The world can now see and hear Dave Brubeck’s archive of 22,000-plus items online at brubeckcollection.org.
Sep 10, 2024 · There is a new project in the works for Hancock, as he has been collaborating with a new generation of crossover jazz artists: Terrace Martin, Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington and Thundercat, with potential appearances by hip-hop artists Kendrick Lamar, Common and Snoop Dog.
Nov 28, 2023 · Despite his legendary status both in Brazilian and American music circles — with a catalog of recorded original songs numbering more than 700 and counting — Lins remains, in some ways, an undersung hero of musical Braziliana of the past half century.
Sep 4, 2024 · Charles Lloyd: Praise for an Ageless Master. Interview, From the Magazine, Charles Lloyd. By Ashley Kahn ISep. 4, 2024. “I don’t focus on the harshness of the music business,” Lloyd says. “I focus on the profundity of what we’re doing because that’s the real stuff. You can change the world with that.”.
Sep 10, 2024 · It has been just over a year since this writer last spoke to saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis for the cover feature in DownBeat’s June 2023 issue.
Jul 11, 2024 · The incomparable Charles Lloyd swept the 72nd Annual DownBeat Critics Poll, becoming the first artist ever to earn honors for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Tenor Saxophonist of the Year as well as be voted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame. At 87, Lloyd remains at the top of his artistic game.
Aug 27, 2024 · Motivated by what naturally transpires — in the studio, on the bandstand and away from the music entirely — Whitaker felt uneasy about expanding a theme into an album for the sole purpose of releasing new music.
