Dec 7, 2020 8:56 AM
Christian McBride Spreads Serious Fun
Christian McBride has some valuable wisdom to share. He knows how to make jazz more popular with young people and how…
Christian McBride was voted Jazz Artist of the Year and topped the Bass category in this year’s DownBeat Readers Poll.
Dec 7, 2020 8:56 AM
Christian McBride has some valuable wisdom to share. He knows how to make jazz more popular with young people and how…
Guitarist Pat Metheny topped two DownBeat Readers Poll categories this year: Guitar and Jazz Album, for his disc From This Place (Nonesuch).
Dec 4, 2020 8:47 AM
A conversation with Pat Metheny is similar to one of his shows: Some parts seem carefully constructed, while others are…
Chien Chien Lu has toured and recorded with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt.
Dec 3, 2020 8:57 AM
Before 2012, Chien Chien Lu had never heard jazz. Having spent her childhood taking piano lessons and playing marimba…
Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa is heading up the Fueling Musicians program, an emergency relief effort he launched during the pandemic.
Dec 2, 2020 8:46 AM
You can’t keep a hard-working bluesman down. Despite the pandemic-related lockdown, blues-rock superstar Joe…
Oberlin vocal instructor La Tanya Hall (foreground) and student Diana Gruber (on monitor) meet in two “real-time” rooms.
Dec 1, 2020 9:00 AM
What Does on-campus instruction look like and feel like during the pandemic? As students across the nation headed back…
Veronica Swift has both a historical connection to the music and a desire to expand its artistic purview.
Nov 27, 2020 9:00 AM
Welcome to our enthusiastic, optimistic look at the future.
Below, DownBeat presents short profiles of two dozen…
Online recording via asynchronous multi-tracking—long regarded as a convenient, cost-saving option for bands and long-distance musical partners—is rapidly becoming a necessity in today’s pandemic-afflicted world.
Nov 26, 2020 9:00 AM
Great recordings require a high level of cooperation from everyone involved. From initial concept through final…
This is Noah Preminger’s first Blindfold Test.
Nov 25, 2020 9:00 AM
Even before saxophonist Noah Preminger topped the Rising Star–Tenor Saxophone category in the 2017 DownBeat Critics…
Veronica Swift is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Nov 24, 2020 9:00 AM
Singer Veronica Swift returned home from a gig in Italy just in time to celebrate the birthday of her mother, acclaimed…
Camila Meza is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Nov 20, 2020 9:00 AM
Singer and guitarist Camila Meza was slightly anxious when, as a 19-year-old jazz novice, she took the stage for her…
