Jan 17, 2023 1:13 PM
Jason Yeager’s Valentine to Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, the late, great American novelist and iconoclast, was many things: satirist, science fictional…
Jan 17, 2023 1:13 PM
Kurt Vonnegut, the late, great American novelist and iconoclast, was many things: satirist, science fictional…
Jan 10, 2023 11:21 AM
The sui generis septet album Once Around The Room (ECM) references the beautiful Paul Motian song “Once Around The…
Jan 10, 2023 10:55 AM
The oldest and largest independent jazz record label in Europe is currently celebrating its 70th anniversary, and…
Jan 3, 2023 12:45 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE: As this edition of the DownBeat Enewsletter was about to go out, we learned of the passing of jazz…
Jan 3, 2023 12:30 PM
“Scalability” is a popular buzzword among businesses and organizations these days, and DownBeat Lifetime…
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…