Dec 11, 2025 1:21 PM
Throughout 2025, DownBeat published seven 5-star reviews for new records that were deemed masterpieces by our critics.…
Dec 11, 2025 12:31 PM
DownBeat published five historical reviews this year that were deemed 5-star masterpieces by our critics — three in…
Dec 11, 2025 11:00 AM
DownBeat presents a complete list of the 4-, 4½- and 5-star albums from 2025 in one convenient package. It’s a great…
Goodwin was one of the most acclaimed, successful and influential jazz musicians of his generation.
Dec 9, 2025 12:28 PM
Gordon Goodwin, an award-winning saxophonist, pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger, died Dec. 8 in Los Angeles.…
Kate Kortum, winner of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
Dec 9, 2025 11:57 AM
Kate Kortum was named the winner of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition on Nov. 23.…
Tenors In Chaos will be among the artists performing at the inaugural Winter Jazzfest Tokyo on Feb. 7.
Dec 9, 2025 11:28 AM
New York’s Winter Jazzfest will be coming to Tokyo in the winter of 2026.
Founded in 2005 in Manhattan with the…
Flea has returned to his first instrument — the trumpet — and assembled a dream band of jazz musicians to record a new album.
Dec 2, 2025 2:01 AM
After a nearly five-decade career as one of his generation’s defining rock bassists, Flea has returned to his first…
“Beyonce’s doing it great, and Rihanna,” says Braxton Cook of balancing family and the demands of a music career. “But we got to make that cool amongst the dudes.”
Dec 2, 2025 1:45 AM
Braxton Cook, an alumnus of jazz trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s (formerly Christian Scott) band who went solo…
Souvik Dutta calls Abstract Logix his side hustle, one that allows him to work with some of the greatest fusion artists in the world.
Dec 2, 2025 1:44 AM
Growing up in Calcutta, Souvik Dutta had the usual exposure to Indian classical music in his home. “From the time I…
J. RIchard Dunscomb presented workshops on conducting and led jazz clinics throughout the United States, Australia, Europe, Canada, Sweden, Japan and South America.
Dec 2, 2025 1:19 AM
J. Richard Dunscomb, a leading authority in the fields of jazz and music education, died Nov. 12. The octogenarian jazz…
