Nov 13, 2025 10:00 AM
Complete Readers Poll Results!
For results of DownBeat’s 90th Annual Readers Poll, complete with feature articles from our December 2025 issue,…
Nov 13, 2025 10:00 AM
For results of DownBeat’s 90th Annual Readers Poll, complete with feature articles from our December 2025 issue,…
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s trumpet section, from left, Wynton Marsalis (JALC managing and artistic director), Ryan Kisor, Kenny Rampton and Marcus Printup.
Nov 11, 2025 1:51 PM
“People are still swinging in the United States of America!” With those telling words, Wynton Marsalis closed the…
With over 600 recordings as a sideman and a dozen as a leader, Billy Hart offers his new autobiography.
Nov 11, 2025 1:09 PM
The new memoir by master drummer and bandleader Billy Hart, who turns 85 later this month and is still busy touring and…
In 1997, a Japanese promoter asked Vincent Herring (right) to bring “a young guy who nobody knows” on a tour with a four-saxophone band that also included Bob Berg and Donald Harrison. Herring invited Eric Alexander (left).
Nov 4, 2025 11:40 AM
Midway through their The Battle 2025 Japan Tour — one that began in Yokohama on July 10 and ended in Oyama on Aug. 3…
Dino Saluzzi, center, flanked by José Maria Saluzzi, left, and Jacob Young.
Oct 28, 2025 10:40 AM
In some way, the sublime new album by venerable bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante, is a family affair…
Allan Harris, seated, with his band at the Blue Llama in Ann Arbor, Michigan: from left, Jay White, Sylvia Cuenca, Alan Grubner and John Di Martino.
Oct 28, 2025 10:36 AM
With 17 records to his name, including his newest live record, The Poetry Of Jazz, seasoned New York vocalist,…
“That is Heaven right here on Earth,” said vocalist Faye Carol of Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington.
Oct 21, 2025 11:41 AM
A San Francisco Bay Area hero for many decades, singer-educator Faye Carol has interpreted songs culled from numerous…
“I’m self-taught, an autodidact as they call it,” said composer Gregg Hill.
Oct 21, 2025 11:24 AM
At a recent performance at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, bassist Rodney…
“I try to be the same person on stage that I am always. … It’s like why I said I’ve written my name the same way I’ve always had since the sixth grade,” says Isaiah J. Thompson.
Oct 14, 2025 2:29 PM
Pianist Isaiah J. Thompson is on the road, answering a video call from his hotel room in Victoria, a quaint city on…
Bach improvisers Alan Ferber (left), Jody Redhage Ferber and Mark Ferber.
Oct 14, 2025 2:23 PM
Confluence turns out to be a fatefully apt and multilayered concept and title for the new album released by the Ferbers…
