Jul 27, 2023 1:57 PM
Mary Halvorson: Album of the Year/Guitarist of the Year
In 2017, Mary Halvorson unpredictably garnered the top guitarist award in DownBeat’s Critics Poll, outpacing…
Jul 27, 2023 1:57 PM
In 2017, Mary Halvorson unpredictably garnered the top guitarist award in DownBeat’s Critics Poll, outpacing…
Jul 27, 2023 1:50 PM
When Ahmad Jamal was first approached about releasing some of the recordings made during his many appearances at the…
Jul 27, 2023 1:41 PM
Mario Bauzá (1911–’93) spent much of his distinguished seven-decade career behind the scenes.
Standard jazz…
Jul 27, 2023 1:35 PM
This year the DownBeat Hall of Fame Veterans Committee catches up with the manifold lives of Red Norvo (1908–’99),…
Jul 27, 2023 1:31 PM
It was clear from the opening track of Immanuel Wilkins’ stunning sophomore outing for Blue Note, The 7th Hand, that…
Jul 27, 2023 1:21 PM
When she heard her band Social Science was named DownBeat’s Jazz Group of the Year for the second time in the…
Jul 27, 2023 1:12 PM
It would be safe to say that Samara Joy, the 23-year-old vocalist with a spellbinding voice and sophisticated command…
Jul 27, 2023 11:27 AM
To see the complete Critics Poll results, just click on the August 2023 issue cover image below.
With…
Jul 25, 2023 1:03 PM
Knoxville, Tennessee, seems an unlikely locale for one of jazz’s most promising and enterprising young pianists. For…
Jul 18, 2023 2:07 PM
Five years ago, Jacques Schwarz-Bart moved away from Harlem, where he had come into his own as a tenor saxophonist,…