Sep 29, 2022 1:10 PM
Where to Study Jazz 2023
Check out some features from DownBeat’s annual Student Music Guide, which contains essential information for students…
Sep 29, 2022 1:10 PM
Check out some features from DownBeat’s annual Student Music Guide, which contains essential information for students…
Sep 29, 2022 1:02 PM
In anticipation of its 50th anniversary in the spring of 2023, William Paterson University is already gearing up for…
Sep 29, 2022 12:57 PM
Gunther Schuller coined the term Third Stream in a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, by which time he had long…
Sep 29, 2022 12:54 PM
When it comes to studying jazz, the best known programs usually come from the East, like Manhattan School of Music,…
Sep 29, 2022 12:50 PM
All the steps in the progressive ladder of music education are vitally important, but community and junior college jazz…
Sep 27, 2022 3:47 PM
Pharoah Sanders, the saxophonist and composer who became famous for his mid-1960s work with saxophonist John Coltrane,…
Sep 27, 2022 3:30 PM
In spring of 2021, Sachal Vasandani (who was DownBeat’s 1999 collegiate vocalist of the year) and Grammy-nominated…
Sep 27, 2022 3:00 PM
Alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett’s most recent recording is Sounds From The Ancestors (Mack Avenue), and he summoned a…
Sep 27, 2022 1:56 PM
When Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo took the stage of Hollywood’s Catalina Bar and Grill this summer, it…
Sep 20, 2022 2:05 PM
It is hard to fathom the depth of loss that Derek Trucks must have felt in 2017. First, his uncle Butch Trucks, a…