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…
Eddie Palmieri is set to stream a performance on Saturday.
Dec 7, 2020 8:55 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
James Erskine’s documentary Billie includes vintage photos that have been digitally colorized by artist Marina Amaral.
Dec 4, 2020 1:53 PM
How does one craft a biography of Billie Holiday with a surprise ending?
She is perhaps the most intensely…
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…
The Mingus Big Band performs at the Jazz Standard in New York. The club announced its permanent closure on Tuesday amid a spike in new COVID-19 cases.
Dec 2, 2020 1:13 PM
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on and further economic stimulus from the federal government remains in limbo,…
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…
Brian Charette plans to stream a set marking the release of a new album on Saturday.
Nov 30, 2020 9:58 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
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…
