Jan 3, 2023 12:25 PM
DB Jazz Education Hall of Fame Award: Jim Nadel, Stanford Jazz Workshop
When Jim Nadel presented the final concert of the 2022 Stanford Jazz Festival in late July, the newest entrant into the…
Jan 3, 2023 12:25 PM
When Jim Nadel presented the final concert of the 2022 Stanford Jazz Festival in late July, the newest entrant into the…
Jan 3, 2023 12:20 PM
Miles Osland, DownBeat’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for Jazz Education honoree at the collegiate level, had a…
Jan 3, 2023 12:15 PM
Given his family background, it might have seemed predictable that Dr. Ollie Liddell, director of bands at Memphis…
Dec 27, 2022 11:35 AM
When Alex Acuña bought his home 37 years ago in the Lake Balboa neighborhood of Los Angeles County, the Peruvian-born…
Dec 27, 2022 11:31 AM
Singer-songwriter Claudia Acuña had thought about doing a duets album for a long time. The emotional exposure of the…
Dec 27, 2022 11:24 AM
While prepping for his latest recording, saxophonist-composer Miguel Zenón had plenty of time to research the history…
Dec 27, 2022 11:18 AM
How do Latin and jazz combine to produce Latin jazz? To help her decipher the code, the virtuosic Argentinian…
Dec 27, 2022 11:03 AM
There’s so much going out in the world of Latin jazz! Here, DownBeat presents some great selections.
Dafnis Prieto…
Dec 20, 2022 11:30 AM
Celebrating “Ten Years of Big Ears” during the weekend of March 30–April 2, 2023, the Big Ears Festival in…
Dec 20, 2022 10:59 AM
On a chilly Dec. 9 in New York, the charismatic reed player Calvin Johnson gazed out upon the 70 or so people assembled…