Nov 27, 2020 9:00 AM

​Welcome to our enthusiastic, optimistic look at the future.

Below, DownBeat presents short profiles of two dozen…

Nov 26, 2020 9:00 AM

Great recordings require a high level of cooperation from everyone involved. From initial concept through final…

Nov 25, 2020 9:00 AM

Even before saxophonist Noah Preminger topped the Rising Star–Tenor Saxophone category in the 2017 DownBeat Critics…

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…

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…

Nov 19, 2020 9:00 AM

​Kuba Więcek is clicking the plunger of his pen with a kind of restlessness that’s manifested in his studies and…

Nov 18, 2020 9:00 AM

​With ambition to spare and serious cred supported by a weighty professional resume, Camille Thurman has made a…

Nov 17, 2020 8:46 AM

The very act of identifying Luke Stewart’s latest project is exhausting. Rarely is there just one.

The prolific…

Nov 13, 2020 8:56 AM

​When pianist Christian Sands titled his latest Mack Avenue album Be Water, he had no idea how appropriate its…

Nov 12, 2020 8:52 AM

​Four years after moving to New York to study music, Joel Ross—already a veteran sideman—released his leader…