Dec 9, 2019 10:27 AM

The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…

Dec 9, 2019 9:00 AM

When DownBeat recently caught up with the multitasking master Erik Charlston at Manhattan’s Symphony Space, he was…

Dec 6, 2019 8:08 AM

It’s the first day of September, and a chill off Lake Ontario has reduced the crowds around Toronto’s Harbourfront…

Dec 5, 2019 9:00 AM

“Kaleidoscope,” the opening track on Hiromi Uehara’s new solo album, Spectrum, features the dazzling displays of…

Dec 4, 2019 2:16 PM

Evgeny Pobozhiy, a 30-year-old from Seversk, Russia, took first place at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz…

Dec 4, 2019 9:00 AM

Members of Wayne Shorter’s quartet have heard some intriguing anecdotes over the years. “Miles believed in so much…

Dec 3, 2019 4:44 PM

Few drummers in jazz history are as revered as Buddy Rich (1917–’87), who achieved fame as a musician, bandleader…

Dec 3, 2019 9:00 AM

DownBeat devised the term “Beyond” to apply to music that defies easy categorization—and no one is a better…

Dec 2, 2019 9:14 AM

As the jazz world continues to mourn the death of Roy Hargrove, the bandleader has been given a posthumous honor,…

Dec 1, 2019 5:13 PM

With so many annual jazz festivals filling the music calendar across Europe, it takes savvy programming to make such…