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{{Short description|American jazz magazine}}
{{Other uses|Downbeat (disambiguation)}}
{{Other uses|Downbeat (disambiguation)}}
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|category = [[Music magazine]]
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|founded = 1934<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ron Welburn|title=Jazz Magazines of the 1930s: An Overview of Their Provocative Journalism|journal=American Music|date=Autumn 1987|volume=5|issue=3|doi=10.2307/3051735|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3051735.pdf?acceptTC=true|accessdate=October 20, 2015}}</ref>
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|company = Maher Publications
|company = Maher Publications
|country = United States
|country = United States
|based = Chicago
|based = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
|language = English
|language = English
|website = {{URL|http://www.downbeat.com}}
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'''''Down Beat''''' (or DownBeat in their logo) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Komara|title=Encyclopedia of the Blues|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-w-uGwm_LhcC&pg=PA757|accessdate=7 July 2016|year=2006|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92699-7|page=756}}</ref> It is named after the "[[Beat (music)#Downbeat|downbeat]]" in music also called "beat one" or the first beat of a musical measure.
'''''{{smallcaps|DownBeat}}''''' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "[[jazz]], [[blues]] and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. It is named after the "[[Upbeat and downbeat|downbeat]]" in music, also called "beat one", or the first beat of a musical measure.


''Down Beat'' publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The '''''Down Beat'' Jazz Hall of Fame''' includes winners from both the readers' and critics' poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue.
''DownBeat'' publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame includes winners from both the readers' and critics' poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue. Since 2008, the Hall of Fame also includes winners from the Veterans Committee.


Well-known features of ''Down Beat'' magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in a which a musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system.
Popular features of ''DownBeat'' magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in a which a musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system.


==History==
In April 1979, ''Down Beat'' went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939.
''DownBeat'' was established in 1934 in [[Chicago]], Illinois.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Komara|title=Encyclopedia of the Blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-w-uGwm_LhcC&pg=PA757|access-date=July 7, 2016|year=2006|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92699-7|page=756}}</ref> In September 1939, the magazine announced that its circulation had increased from "a few hundred five years ago to more than 80,000 copies a month", and that it would change from monthly to fortnightly from the following month.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=September 1939|title=A New Down Beat|magazine=DownBeat|volume=6|issue=9|page=12}}</ref> In Summer 1960 ''DownBeat'' launched the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] edition.<ref>{{cite news|title=Shinu, Shinu, Shinu|url=https://web-b-ebscohost-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=15&sid=2bfb9546-4697-4619-abf2-c43834e1c7bf%40pdc-v-sessmgr06&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=54202249&db=f6h|access-date=July 1, 2020|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=September 12, 1960}}</ref> In 1972 the publisher of the magazine was Maher Publishers.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lucile Perryman|title=Guide to Children's Magazines, Newspapers, Reference Books|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED089288.pdf|publisher=[[Association for Childhood Education International]]|location=Washington DC|page=2|date=1972|access-date=September 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711075955/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED089288.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2020}}</ref> Starting in July 1979, ''DownBeat'' went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939.


''DownBeat'' was named Jazz Publication of the Year in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 by the [[Jazz Journalists Association]].<ref name="Wadada">{{cite web|title=Wadada Leo Smith Among Winners of 2017 JJA Awards |url=http://downbeat.com/news/detail/smith-tyner-downbeat-among-winners-of-2017-jja-awards |website=DownBeat |access-date=September 26, 2018|date=May 16, 2017}}</ref>
==Awards==
=== Lifetime Achievement Award===
{{colbegin||22em}}
* 1981 [[John H. Hammond]]
* 1982 [[George Wein]]
* 1983 [[Leonard Feather]]
* 1984 [[Billy Taylor]]
* 1985 [[Lawrence Berk]]
* 1986 [[Orrin Keepnews]]
* 1987 [[David Baker (composer)|David Baker]]
* 1988 John Conyers Jr.
* 1989 [[Norman Granz]]
* 1990 [[Rudy Van Gelder]]
* 1991 [[Bill Cosby]]
* 1992 [[Rich Matteson]]
* 1993 [[Gunther Schuller]]
* 1994 [[Marian McPartland]]
* 1995 [[Willis Conover]]
* 1996 [[Chuck Suber]]
* 1997 [[William P. Gottlieb]]
* 1998 [[Bruce Lundvall]]
* 1999 [[Sheldon Meyer]]
* 2000 [[George Avakian]]
* 2001 [[Milt Gabler]]
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005 [[Jim Warrick]]
* 2006 [[Claude Nobs]]
* 2007 [[Dan Morgenstern]]
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010 [[Manfred Eicher]]
{{colend}}

===Hall of Fame ===
The ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame is maintained at [[Universal Studios]]' City Jazz club in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], [[Florida]]. Current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The critics' poll was not initiated until 1961, so winners before then were all chosen by readers' polls. In 2010, the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame began electing deserving, deceased musicians of bygone eras.


== DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame ==
{|
The ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame's current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The Readers' Poll began in 1952, the Critics' Poll in 1961, and the Veterans Committee Poll in 2008.<ref name="hall">{{cite web|title=DownBeat Archives|url=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame|website=DownBeat|access-date=April 8, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
!align="left"|Year!!align="left"|Readers Poll!!align="left"|Critics Poll
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! Readers Poll
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! Veterans Committee Poll
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|1952||[[Louis Armstrong]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=758|title=1952 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1952||[[Louis Armstrong]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=758|title=1952 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306001708/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=758|archive-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>
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|1953||[[Glenn Miller]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=759|title=1953 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1953||[[Glenn Miller]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=759|title=1953 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205164412/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=759|archive-date=December 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
|1954||[[Stan Kenton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=760|title=1954 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1954||[[Stan Kenton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=760|title=1954 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205164639/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=760|archive-date=December 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
|1955||[[Charlie Parker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=761|title=1955 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1955||[[Charlie Parker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=761|title=1955 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002016/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=761|archive-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>
|-
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|1956||[[Duke Ellington]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=762|title=1956 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1956||[[Duke Ellington]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=762|title=1956 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002020/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=762|archive-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>
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|1957||[[Benny Goodman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=763|title=1957 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1957||[[Benny Goodman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=763|title=1957 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002029/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=763|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-t
|1958||[[Count Basie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=764|title=1958 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205164112/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=764|archive-date=December 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1958||[[Count Basie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=764|title=1958 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1959||[[Lester Young]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=765|title=1959 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203445/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=765|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1959||[[Lester Young]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=765|title=1959 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1960||[[Dizzy Gillespie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=766|title=1960 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203351/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=766|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1960||[[Dizzy Gillespie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=766|title=1960 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
|1961||[[Billie Holiday]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=769|title=1961 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203154/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=769|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Coleman Hawkins]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=687|title=1961 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155314/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=687|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1961||[[Billie Holiday]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=769|title=1961 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Coleman Hawkins]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=687|title=1961 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1962||[[Miles Davis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=770|title=1962 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203141/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=770|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Bix Beiderbecke]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=688|title=1962 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1962||[[Miles Davis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=770|title=1962 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Bix Beiderbecke]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=688|title=1962 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1963||[[Thelonious Monk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=771|title=1963 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203114/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=771|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Jelly Roll Morton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=689|title=1963 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203201/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=689|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1963||[[Thelonious Monk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=771|title=1963 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Jelly Roll Morton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=689|title=1963 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1964||[[Eric Dolphy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=772|title=1964 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002057/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=772|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Art Tatum]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=690|title=1964 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155018/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=690|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1964||[[Eric Dolphy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=772|title=1964 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Art Tatum]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=690|title=1964 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1965||[[John Coltrane]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=773|title=1965 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002102/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=773|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Earl Hines]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=691|title=1965 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002107/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=691|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1965||[[John Coltrane]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=773|title=1965 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Earl Hines]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=691|title=1965 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1966||[[Bud Powell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=774|title=1966 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002121/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=774|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Charlie Christian]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=692|title=1966 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002149/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=692|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1966||[[Bud Powell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=774|title=1966 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Charlie Christian]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=692|title=1966 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1967||[[Billy Strayhorn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=775|title=1967 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002209/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=775|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Bessie Smith]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=693|title=1967 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002224/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=693|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1967||[[Billy Strayhorn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=775|title=1967 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Bessie Smith]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=693|title=1967 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1968||[[Wes Montgomery]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=776|title=1968 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210041/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=776|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Sidney Bechet]] & [[Fats Waller]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=694|title=1968 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002235/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=694|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1968||[[Wes Montgomery]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=776|title=1968 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Sidney Bechet]] & [[Fats Waller]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=694|title=1968 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1969||[[Ornette Coleman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=777|title=1969 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002240/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=777|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Pee Wee Russell]] & [[Jack Teagarden]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=695|title=1969 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002246/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=695|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1969||[[Ornette Coleman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=777|title=1969 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Pee Wee Russell]] & [[Jack Teagarden]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=695|title=1969 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1970||[[Jimi Hendrix]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=778|title=1970 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002308/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=778|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Johnny Hodges]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=696|title=1970 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002315/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=696|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1970||[[Jimi Hendrix]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=778|title=1970 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Johnny Hodges]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=696|title=1970 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1971||[[Charles Mingus]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=779|title=1971 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002320/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=779|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Roy Eldridge]] & [[Django Reinhardt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=697|title=1971 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002334/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=697|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1971||[[Charles Mingus]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=779|title=1971 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Roy Eldridge]] & [[Django Reinhardt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=697|title=1971 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1972||[[Gene Krupa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=780|title=1972 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517143629/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=780|archive-date=May 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Clifford Brown]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=698|title=1972 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235603/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=698|archive-date=December 30, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1972||[[Gene Krupa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=780|title=1972 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Clifford Brown]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=698|title=1972 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1973||[[Sonny Rollins]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=781|title=1973 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616024405/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=781|archive-date=June 16, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Fletcher Henderson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=699|title=1973 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002424/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=699|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1973||[[Sonny Rollins]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=781|title=1973 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Fletcher Henderson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=699|title=1973 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1974||[[Buddy Rich]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=782|title=1974 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616024445/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=782|archive-date=June 16, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Ben Webster]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=700|title=1974 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517143544/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=700|archive-date=May 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1974||[[Buddy Rich]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=782|title=1974 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Ben Webster]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=700|title=1974 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1975||[[Cannonball Adderley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=783|title=1975 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616024804/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=783|archive-date=June 16, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Cecil Taylor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=701|title=1975 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517143601/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=701|archive-date=May 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1975||[[Cannonball Adderley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=783|title=1975 Down Beat Readers Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=May 13, 2008}}</ref>||[[Cecil Taylor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=701|title=1975 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1976||[[Woody Herman]]||[[Joe "King" Oliver|King Oliver]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=702|title=1976 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517143620/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=702|archive-date=May 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1976||[[Woody Herman]]||[[Joe "King" Oliver|King Oliver]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=702|title=1976 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1977||[[Paul Desmond]]||[[Benny Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=703|title=1977 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517143624/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=703|archive-date=May 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1977||[[Paul Desmond]]||[[Benny Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=703|title=1977 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1978||[[Joe Venuti]]||[[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=704|title=1978 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1978||[[Joe Venuti]]||[[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=704|title=1978 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1979||[[Ella Fitzgerald]]||[[Lennie Tristano]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=705|title=1979 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1979||[[Ella Fitzgerald]]||[[Lennie Tristano]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=705|title=1979 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1980||[[Dexter Gordon]]||[[Max Roach]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=706|title=1980 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1980||[[Dexter Gordon]]||[[Max Roach]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=706|title=1980 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1981||[[Art Blakey]]||[[Bill Evans]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=707|title=1981 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1981||[[Art Blakey]]||[[Bill Evans]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=707|title=1981 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1982||[[Art Pepper]]||[[Fats Navarro]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=708|title=1982 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1982||[[Art Pepper]]||[[Fats Navarro]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=708|title=1982 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1983||[[Stéphane Grappelli]]||[[Albert Ayler]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=709|title=1983 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1983||[[Stéphane Grappelli]]||[[Albert Ayler]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=709|title=1983 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1984||[[Oscar Peterson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeatjazz.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=1079|title=Oscar Peterson Dies at Age 82|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 16, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207192403/http://www.downbeatjazz.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=1079|archive-date=December 7, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>||[[Sun Ra]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=710|title=1984 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154944/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=710|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1984||[[Oscar Peterson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeatjazz.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=1079|title=Oscar Peterson Dies at Age 82|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 16, 2008}}</ref>||[[Sun Ra]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=710|title=1984 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1985||[[Sarah Vaughan]]||[[Zoot Sims]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=711|title=1985 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002444/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=711|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1985||[[Sarah Vaughan]]||[[Zoot Sims]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=711|title=1985 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1986||[[Stan Getz]]||[[Gil Evans]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=712|title=1986 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002449/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=712|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1986||[[Stan Getz]]||[[Gil Evans]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=712|title=1986 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1987||[[Lionel Hampton]]||[[Johnny Dodds]], [[Thad Jones]], [[Teddy Wilson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=713|title=1987 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002454/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=713|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1987||[[Lionel Hampton]]||[[Johnny Dodds]], [[Thad Jones]], [[Teddy Wilson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=713|title=1987 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1988||[[Jaco Pastorius]]||[[Kenny Clarke]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=714|title=1988 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002541/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=714|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1988||[[Jaco Pastorius]]||[[Kenny Clarke]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=714|title=1988 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1989||[[Woody Shaw]]||[[Chet Baker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=715|title=1989 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002552/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=715|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1989||[[Woody Shaw]]||[[Chet Baker]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=715|title=1989 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1990||[[Red Rodney]]||[[Mary Lou Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=716|title=1990 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1990||[[Red Rodney]]||[[Mary Lou Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=716|title=1990 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1991||[[Lee Morgan]]||[[John Carter (jazz musician)|John Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=717|title=1991 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155324/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=717|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref>
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|1991||[[Lee Morgan]]||[[John Carter (jazz musician)|John Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=717|title=1991 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1992||[[Maynard Ferguson]]||[[James P. Johnson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=718|title=1992 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002614/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=718|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1992||[[Maynard Ferguson]]||[[James P. Johnson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=718|title=1992 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1993||[[Gerry Mulligan]]||[[Ed Blackwell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=719|title=1993 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002622/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=719|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1993||[[Gerry Mulligan]]||[[Ed Blackwell]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=719|title=1993 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1994||[[Dave Brubeck]]||[[Frank Zappa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=720|title=1994 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216121831/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=720|archive-date=February 16, 2009}}</ref>
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|1994||[[Dave Brubeck]]||[[Frank Zappa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=720|title=1994 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1995||[[J. J. Johnson]]||[[Julius Hemphill]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=721|title=1995 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1995||[[J. J. Johnson]]||[[Julius Hemphill]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=721|title=1995 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1996||[[Horace Silver]]||[[Artie Shaw]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=722|title=1996 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
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|1996||[[Horace Silver]]||[[Artie Shaw]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=722|title=1996 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1997||[[Nat King Cole]]||[[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=723|title=1997 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002845/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=723|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1997||[[Nat King Cole]]||[[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=723|title=1997 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1998||[[Frank Sinatra]]||[[Elvin Jones]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=724|title=1998 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002850/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=724|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1998||[[Frank Sinatra]]||[[Elvin Jones]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=724|title=1998 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|1999||[[Milt Jackson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232889|title=BMI Scores in Year End Jazz Polls|date=December 1999|publisher=bmi.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>||[[Betty Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=725|title=1999 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203121/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=725|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1999||[[Milt Jackson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232889|title=BMI Scores in Year End Jazz Polls|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>||[[Betty Carter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=725|title=1999 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2000||[[Clark Terry]]||[[Lester Bowie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=726|title=2000 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616024024/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=726|archive-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2000||[[Clark Terry]]||[[Lester Bowie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=726|title=2000 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2001||[[Joe Henderson]]||[[Milt Hinton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=727|title=2001 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306002854/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=727|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2001||[[Joe Henderson]]||[[Milt Hinton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=727|title=2001 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2002||[[Antonio Carlos Jobim]]||[[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=728|title=2002 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=November 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155659/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=728|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2002||[[Antonio Carlos Jobim]]||[[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=728|title=2002 Down Beat Critics Poll|publisher=downbeat.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2003||[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]]||[[Wayne Shorter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233766|title=BMI Dominates Downbeat Critics Poll|date=June 26, 2003|publisher=bmi.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|2003||[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]]||[[Wayne Shorter]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233766|title=BMI Dominates Downbeat Critics Poll|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2004||[[McCoy Tyner]]||[[Roy Haynes]]
|2004||[[McCoy Tyner]]||[[Roy Haynes]]
|-
|-
|2005||[[Herbie Hancock]]||[[Steve Lacy]]
|2005||[[Herbie Hancock]]||[[Steve Lacy (saxophonist)|Steve Lacy]]
|-
|-
|2006||[[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]]||[[Jackie McLean]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/537459|title=BMI Jazz Greats Sweep ‘Downbeat’ Critics Poll|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2006||[[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]]||[[Jackie McLean]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/537459|title=BMI Jazz Greats Sweep 'Downbeat' Critics Poll|date=November 11, 2008|publisher=bmi.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2007||[[Michael Brecker]]||[[Andrew Hill]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/535262|title=BMI Jazz Giants Score in Down Beat 2007 Critics Poll|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|2007||[[Michael Brecker]]||[[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/535262|title=BMI Jazz Giants Score in Down Beat 2007 Critics Poll|date=July 27, 2007|publisher=bmi.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
|-
|-
|2008||[[Keith Jarrett]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/537459|title=BMI Jazz Composers Top ‘Downbeat’ Readers Poll|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2008}}</ref>||[[Joe Zawinul]]
|2008||[[Keith Jarrett]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/537459|title=BMI Jazz Composers Top 'Downbeat' Readers Poll|date=November 11, 2008|publisher=bmi.com|access-date=November 14, 2008}}</ref>||[[Joe Zawinul]]||[[Jo Jones]], [[Jimmie Lunceford]], [[Erroll Garner]], [[Harry Carney]], [[Jimmy Blanton]]
|-
|-
|2009||[[Freddie Hubbard]]||[[Hank Jones]]
|2009||[[Freddie Hubbard]]||[[Hank Jones]]||[[Oscar Pettiford]], [[Tadd Dameron]]
|-
|-
|2010||[[Muhal Richard Abrams]]||[[Chick Corea]]
|2010||[[Muhal Richard Abrams]]||[[Chick Corea]]||[[Baby Dodds]], [[Chick Webb]], [[Philly Joe Jones]], [[Billy Eckstine]]
|-
|-
|2011||[[Ahmad Jamal]]||[[Abbey Lincoln]]
|2011||[[Ahmad Jamal]]||[[Abbey Lincoln]]||[[Paul Chambers]]
|-
|-
|2012||[[Ron Carter]]||[[Paul Motian]]
|2012||[[Ron Carter]]||[[Paul Motian]]||[[Gene Ammons]], [[Sonny Stitt]]
|-
|-
|2013||[[Pat Metheny]]||[[Charlie Haden]]
|2013||[[Pat Metheny]]||[[Charlie Haden]]||[[Robert Johnson]]
|-
|-
|2014||[[B.B. King]]||[[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]]
|2014||[[B.B. King]]||[[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]]||[[Bing Crosby]], [[Dinah Washington]]
|-
|-
|2015||[[Tony Bennett]]||[[Lee Konitz]]
|2015||[[Tony Bennett]]||[[Lee Konitz]]||[[Muddy Waters]]
|-
|2016||[[Phil Woods]]||[[Randy Weston]]||[[Hoagy Carmichael]]
|-
|2017||[[Wynton Marsalis]]<ref name="Hall">{{cite web|title=Marsalis, Krall, Corea Among DownBeat Readers Poll Winners|url=http://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/marsalis-krall-corea-among-downbeat-readers-poll-winners|website=wyntonmarsalis.org|access-date=November 16, 2017|language=en}}</ref>||[[Don Cherry (trumpeter)|Don Cherry]]||[[Eubie Blake]], [[George Gershwin]], [[Herbie Nichols]]
|-
|2018||[[Ray Charles]]||[[Benny Golson]]<ref name="BGolson">{{cite magazine |last= Panken|first=Ted |date=August 2018 |title=Benny Golson |magazine= DownBeat}}</ref>||[[Marian McPartland]]
|-
|2019||[[Hank Mobley]]||[[Nina Simone]]||[[Scott LaFaro]], [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]]
|-
|2020||[[George Benson]]||[[Jimmy Heath]]||[[Mildred Bailey]], [[Carmen McRae]]
|-
|2021||[[Roy Hargrove]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://downbeat.com/?/news/detail/downbeat-86th-annual-readers-poll-winners |title=Down Beat Readers Poll|date=November 23, 2021 |publisher=downbeat.com|access-date=December 26, 2021}}</ref>||[[Carla Bley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/bley-corea-schneider-top-critics-poll |title=Down Beat Critics Poll|date=July 13, 2021 }}</ref>||[[Booker Little]], [[Yusef Lateef]]
|-
|2022
|[[Kenny Barron|Kenny Baron]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=DownBeat December 2022 Readers Poll |url=https://archive.maherpublications.com/view/480689468/2/?sharedOn= |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=archive.maherpublications.com}}</ref>
|[[Geri Allen]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=DownBeat August 2022 Critics Poll Results |url=https://archive.maherpublications.com/view/331464720/2/?sharedOn= |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=archive.maherpublications.com}}</ref>
|-
|2023
|[[Pharoah Sanders]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=DownBeat 2023 Readers poll|date=November 22, 2023 |url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/pharoah-sanders-enters-the-downbeat-hall-of-fame|access-date=January 2, 2024}}</ref>||[[Alice Coltrane]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Coltrane Hall of Fame|url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/alice-coltrane-hall-of-fame |website=downbeat.com |date=July 27, 2023 |access-date=January 2, 2024}}</ref>|| [[Red Norvo]], [[Mario Bauza]]
|}
|}


==Awards==
=== Veterans Committee Hall of Fame ===
*2008: [[Jo Jones]], [[Jimmie Lunceford]], [[Erroll Garner]], [[Harry Carney]], [[Jimmy Blanton]]
*2009: [[Oscar Pettiford]], [[Tadd Dameron]]
*2010: [[Baby Dodds]], [[Chick Webb]], [[Philly Joe Jones]], [[Billy Eckstine]]
*2011: [[Paul Chambers]]
*2012: [[Gene Ammons]], [[Sonny Stitt]]
*2013: [[Robert Johnson]]
*2014: [[Bing Crosby]], [[Dinah Washington]]
*2015: [[Muddy Waters]]

=== Album of the Year ===
=== Album of the Year ===
====Critics' Poll====
An essential contribution of the critics' and readers' polls published in the August resp. December issues are the selections for "Jazz Album of the Year", listing the dozen or so most popular albums. Listed here are the top 3 albums of the selections:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Musician!! Label
|-
| 1965 || ''[[A Love Supreme]]'' || [[John Coltrane]] || [[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]]
|-
| 1966 || ''[[At the Golden Circle Stockholm|At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1]]'' || [[Ornette Coleman]] Trio || [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]]
|-
| 1967 || ''[[The Popular Duke Ellington]]'' || [[Duke Ellington]] || [[RCA Records|RCA]]
|-
| 1968 || ''[[The Far East Suite]]''|| Duke Ellington || Bluebird/RCA
|-
| 1969 || ''[[...And His Mother Called Him Bill]]'' || Duke Ellington || Bluebird/RCA
|-
| 1970 || ''[[Bitches Brew]]'' || [[Miles Davis]] || [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
|-
| 1971 || ''[[New Orleans Suite]]'' || Duke Ellington || [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
|-
| 1972 || ''The You and Me That Used to Be'' || [[Jimmy Rushing]] || RCA
|-
| rowspan=2| 1973 <br /><small>'' (tie)''</small> || ''[[Constellation (Sonny Stitt album)|Constellation]]'' || [[Sonny Stitt]] || [[Cobblestone Records|Cobblestone]]
|-
|''[[Sahara (McCoy Tyner album)|Sahara]]'' || [[McCoy Tyner]] || [[Milestone Records|Milestone]]
|-
| 1974 || ''[[Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne|Solo Concerts]]'' || [[Keith Jarrett]] ||[[ECM Records|ECM]]
|-
| 1975 || ''[[Silent Tongues]]'' || [[Cecil Taylor]]|| [[Freedom Records|Freedom]]
|-
| 1976 || ''[[Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie]]'' || [[Oscar Peterson]] & [[Dizzy Gillespie]] || [[Pablo Records|Pablo]]
|-
| 1977 || ''[[Creative Orchestra Music 1976]]'' || [[Anthony Braxton]] || [[Arista Records|Arista]]
|-
| rowspan=5 | 1978 <br /><small>'' (tie)''</small>|| ''[[Insights (album)|Insights]]'' || [[Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band]] || RCA
|-
|''[[Dancing in Your Head]]'' || [[Ornette Coleman]] || [[Horizon Records|Horizon]]
|-
|''[[Sophisticated Giant]]'' || [[Dexter Gordon]] || Columbia
|-
|''[[Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard]]'' || [[Dexter Gordon]] || Columbia
|-
|''[[Nonaah]]'' || [[Roscoe Mitchell]] || [[Nessa Records|Nessa]]
|-
| 1979 || ''[[Cumbia & Jazz Fusion]]'' || [[Charles Mingus]] || Atlantic
|-
| 1980 || ''[[Air Lore]]'' ||[[Air (free jazz trio)|Air]] || Arista/Novus
|-
| 1981 || ''[[Full Force (Art Ensemble of Chicago album)|Full Force]]'' || [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]] || ECM
|-
| 1982 || | ''[[Playing (album)|Playing]]'' || [[Old and New Dreams]]|| ECM
|-
| 1983 || ''[[Blues Forever]]'' || [[Muhal Richard Abrams]] || [[Black Saint Records|Black Saint]]
|-
| 1984 || ''[[The Ballad of the Fallen]]'' || [[Charlie Haden]] || ECM
|-
| 1985 || ''That's the Way I Feel Now'' || Various || [[A&M Records|A&M]]
|-
| 1986 || ''The African Flower'' || [[James Newton]] ||Blue Note
|-
| 1987 || ''[[Song X]]'' || [[Pat Metheny]] & [[Ornette Coleman]] || [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
|-
| 1988 || ''[[In All Languages]]'' || Ornette Coleman || [[Caravan of Dreams]]
|-
| 1989 || ''[[Audio-Visualscapes]]'' || [[Jack DeJohnette]] || Impulse!
|-
| 1990 || ''[[In East Berlin]]'' || [[Cecil Taylor]] || [[FMP/Free Music Production|FMP]]
|-
| 1991 || ''[[Dream Keeper]]'' || [[Charlie Haden]] ||Blue Note
|-
| 1992 || ''[[Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn|Lush Life]]'' || [[Joe Henderson]] || [[Verve Records|Verve]]
|-
| 1993 || ''[[So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)]]'' || Joe Henderson || Verve
|-
| 1994 || ''[[Always Say Goodbye]]'' || Charlie Haden || Verve
|-
| 1995 || ''[[Rush Hour (Joe Lovano album)|Rush Hour]]'' || [[Joe Lovano]] & [[Gunther Schuller]] || Verve
|-
| 1996 || ''[[Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note]]'' || [[Keith Jarrett]] Standards Trio || ECM
|-
| 1997 || ''[[Sound Museum: Hidden Man]]'' || Ornette Coleman Quartet || Harmolodic/Verve
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Nashville (Bill Frisell album)|Nashville]]'' || [[Bill Frisell]] || [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]
|-
| 1999 || ''[[Gershwin's World]]'' || [[Herbie Hancock]] ||Verve
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Soul on Soul]]'' || [[Dave Douglas (trumpeter)|Dave Douglas]] || RCA
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Dusk (Andrew Hill album)|Dusk]]'' || [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]] || [[Palmetto Records|Palmetto]]
|-
| 2002 || ''[[Not for Nothin']] '' || [[Dave Holland]] || ECM
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Footprints Live!]]'' || [[Wayne Shorter]] Quartet || Verve
|-
| 2004 || ''[[Extended Play: Live at Birdland]]'' || Dave Holland Quintet || ECM
|-
| 2005 || ''[[Concert in the Garden]]'' ||[[Maria Schneider (musician)|Maria Schneider]] ||[[ArtistShare]]
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Time Lines]]'' || [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]] || Blue Note
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Sound Grammar]]'' || [[Ornette Coleman]] || Sound Grammar
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Sky Blue (Maria Schneider album)|Sky Blue]]'' || Maria Schneider || ArtistShare
|-
| 2009 || ''Road Shows, Vol. 1'' || [[Sonny Rollins]] || Doxy/[[EmArcy Records|EmArcy]]
|-
| 2010 || ''[[Historicity (album)|Historicity]]'' || [[Vijay Iyer]] || [[ACT Music|ACT]]
|-
| 2011 || ''[[Ten (Jason Moran album)|Ten]]'' || [[Jason Moran (musician)|Jason Moran]] || Blue Note
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Accelerando (album)|Accelerando]]'' || Vijay Iyer || ACT
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Without a Net (Wayne Shorter album)|Without a Net]]'' || [[Wayne Shorter]] Quartet || Blue Note
|-
| 2014 || ''WomanChild'' || [[Cécile McLorin Salvant]] || [[Mack Avenue Records|Mack Avenue]]
|-
| 2015 || ''Bird Calls'' || [[Rudresh Mahanthappa]] || ACT
|-
| 2016 || ''[[The Epic (album)|The Epic]]'' || [[Kamasi Washington]] || [[Brainfeeder]]
|-
| 2017 || ''[[America's National Parks]]'' || [[Wadada Leo Smith]] || [[Cuneiform Records|Cuneiform]]
|-
| 2018 || ''[[Dreams and Daggers]]'' || [[Cécile McLorin Salvant]] || Mack Avenue
|-
| 2019 || ''[[Emanon (Wayne Shorter album)|Emanon]]'' || [[Wayne Shorter]] || Blue Note
|-
| 2020 || ''Waiting Game'' || [[Terri Lyne Carrington]] || [[Motema Music]]
|-
| 2021 || ''[[Data Lords]]'' || [[Maria Schneider (musician)|Maria Schneider]] Orchestra || [[ArtistShare]]
|-
|2022 ||Jesup Wagon || [[James Brandon Lewis]] and the Red Lily Quintet || Tao Forms
|-
|2023 ||Amaryllis & Belladonna ||[[Mary Halvorson]]||Nonesuch
|}


=== Lifetime Achievement Award ===
'''2006''' critics' poll:<br />
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
(1) [[Andrew Hill]]: ''[[Time Lines]]'' (Blue Note)<br />
* 1981 [[John H. Hammond]]<ref name="avakian">{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Producer George Avakian |url=http://downbeat.com/news/detail/george-avakian-record-innovator |website=DownBeat |access-date=September 26, 2018 |language=en |date=December 4, 2017}}</ref>
(2) [[Wayne Shorter]] Quartet: ''[[Beyond the Sound Barrier]]'' (Verve)<br />
* 1982 [[George Wein]]
(3) [[Sonny Rollins]]: ''[[Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert]]'' (Milestone)
* 1983 [[Leonard Feather]]<ref name="feather">{{cite web |last1=Heckman |first1=Don |title=Leonard Feather; Jazz Critic, Composer |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-23/news/mn-41941_1_leonard-feather |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=September 26, 2018 |date=September 23, 1994}}</ref>

* 1984 [[Billy Taylor]]
'''2007''' critics' poll:<br />
* 1985 [[Lawrence Berk]]
(1) [[Ornette Coleman]]: ''[[Sound Grammar]]'' (Sound Grammar)<br />
* 1986 [[Orrin Keepnews]]
(2) [[Trio Beyond]]: ''[[Saudades (Trio Beyond album)|Saudades]]'' (ECM)<br />
* 1987 [[David Baker (composer)|David Baker]]<ref name="baker">{{cite news |title=Baker Wins Downbeat's 1987 Lifetime Award |work=[[The Indianapolis Star]] |date=July 25, 1987 |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |page=12}}</ref>
(3) [[Sonny Rollins]]: ''[[Sonny, Please]]'' (Doxy)
* 1988 John Conyers Jr.

* 1989 [[Norman Granz]]
'''2008''' critics' poll:<br />
* 1990 [[Rudy Van Gelder]]
(1) [[Maria Schneider (musician)|Maria Schneider]]: ''[[Sky Blue (album)|Sky Blue]]'' (ArtistShare)<br />
* 1991 [[Bill Cosby]]
(2) [[Michael Brecker]]: ''[[Pilgrimage (Michael Brecker album)|Pilgrimage]]'' (Heads Up)<br />
* 1992 [[Rich Matteson]]
(3) [[Joe Lovano]] and [[Hank Jones]]: ''Kids: Duets Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola'' (Blue Note)
* 1993 [[Gunther Schuller]]<ref name="Pincus2002">{{cite book|last=Pincus|first=Andrew L.|title=Musicians with a Mission: Keeping the Classical Tradition Alive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szmBNRH93BcC&pg=PA109|access-date=September 26, 2018|year=2002|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-55553-516-2|pages=109–}}</ref>

* 1994 [[Marian McPartland]]
'''2009''' critics' poll:<br />
* 1995 [[Willis Conover]]
(1) [[Sonny Rollins]]: ''Road Shows, Vol. 1'' (Doxy/Emarcy)<br />
* 1996 [[Chuck Suber]]
(2) [[Joe Lovano]]: ''[[Symphonica (Joe Lovano album)|Symphonica]]'' (Blue Note)<br />
* 1997 [[William P. Gottlieb]]
(3) [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] Quartet: ''[[Rabo de Nube]]'' (ECM)
* 1998 [[Bruce Lundvall]]

* 1999 [[Sheldon Meyer]]
'''2010''' critics' poll:<br />
* 2000 [[George Avakian]]
(1) [[Vijay Iyer]] Trio: ''[[Historicity (album)|Historicity]]'' (ACT)<br />
* 2001 [[Milt Gabler]]
(2) [[Joe Lovano]] Us Five: ''[[Folk Art (album)|Folk Art]]'' (Blue Note)<br />
* 2002
(3) [[Miguel Zenón]]: ''Esta Plena'' (Marsalis)
* 2003

* 2004
'''2011''' critics' poll:<br />
* 2005 [[Creed Taylor]]<ref name="creed">{{cite web |last1=Panken |first1=Ted |title=The Right Groove - "DownBeat" Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://openmusiclibrary.org/article/676045/ |website=Open Music Library |access-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref>
(1) [[Jason Moran]]: ''Ten'' (Blue Note)<br />
* 2006 [[Claude Nobs]]
(2) [[Joe Lovano]] Us Five: ''[[Bird Songs (Joe Lovano album)|Bird Songs]]'' (Blue Note)<br />
* 2007 [[Dan Morgenstern]]
(3) [[Esperanza Spalding]]: ''[[Chamber Music Society]]'' (Heads Up)
* 2008

* 2009
'''2012''' critics' poll:<br />
* 2010 [[Manfred Eicher]]<ref name="manfred">{{cite web |last1=Ricci |first1=Michael |title=Manfred Eicher Wins Downbeat Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://news.allaboutjazz.com/manfred-eicher-wins-downbeat-lifetime-achievement-award.php |website=All About Jazz |access-date=September 26, 2018 |date=April 4, 2010}}</ref>
(1) [[Vijay Iyer]]: ''[[Accelerando (album)|Accelerando]]'' (Act)<br />
* 2011
(2) [[Sonny Rollins]]: ''Road Shows, Vol. 2'' (Doxy/Emarcy)<br />
* 2012
(3) [[Keith Jarrett]]: ''[[Rio (Keith Jarrett album)|Rio]]'' (ECM)
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017 [[George Avakian]]<ref name="avakian" />
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022 [[Gretchen Valade]]
* 2023 [[Randall Kline]]{{div col end}}


== See also ==
== See also ==
* The [[Mary Lou Williams]] Women in Jazz Award
* The [[Mary Lou Williams]] Women in Jazz Award
* [[International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)]]
* [[International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)]]
* [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] (not jazz, exclusively, but many recipients are jazz musicians)
* [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] (not jazz exclusively, but many recipients are jazz musicians)
* [[BBC Jazz Awards]]
* [[BBC Jazz Awards]]
* [[NEA Jazz Masters]]
* [[NEA Jazz Masters]]
* [[Benny Heller]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.downbeat.com/ ''Down Beat'' website]
*[http://www.downbeat.com/ ''Down Beat'' website]
* [http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=about_04 "About ''Down Beat'': A History As Rich As Jazz"]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040705094852/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=about_04 "About ''Down Beat'': A History As Rich As Jazz"]
* The [http://www.jazzhouse.org/ Jazz Journalists Association] Lifetime Achievement Award
*The [http://www.jazzhouse.org/ Jazz Journalists Association] Lifetime Achievement Award
* [[Nesuhi Ertegun]] [http://www.jalc.org/halloffame/ Jazz Hall of Fame]
*Nesuhi Ertegun, [http://www.jalc.org/halloffame/ Jazz Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223102006/http://www.jalc.org/halloffame/ |date=December 23, 2010 }}
* [http://www.visionfestival.org/ Arts For Art] Lifetime Achievement Award
*[http://www.visionfestival.org/ Arts For Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501123848/http://www.visionfestival.org/ |date=May 1, 2012 }} Lifetime Achievement Award
*[https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/kevin-maher NAMM Oral History Interview with Kevin Maher] January 25, 2014


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For other uses, see Downbeat (disambiguation).

DownBeat
CategoriesMusic magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1934; 90 years ago (1934)[1]
CompanyMaher Publications
CountryUnited States
Based inChicago, Illinois, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Websitedownbeat.com
ISSN0012-5768

DownBeat (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the "downbeat" in music, also called "beat one", or the first beat of a musical measure.

DownBeat publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame includes winners from both the readers' and critics' poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue. Since 2008, the Hall of Fame also includes winners from the Veterans Committee.

Popular features of DownBeat magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in a which a musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system.

History

DownBeat was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois.[2] In September 1939, the magazine announced that its circulation had increased from "a few hundred five years ago to more than 80,000 copies a month", and that it would change from monthly to fortnightly from the following month.[3] In Summer 1960 DownBeat launched the Japanese edition.[4] In 1972 the publisher of the magazine was Maher Publishers.[5] Starting in July 1979, DownBeat went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939.

DownBeat was named Jazz Publication of the Year in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 by the Jazz Journalists Association.[6]

DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame

The DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame's current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The Readers' Poll began in 1952, the Critics' Poll in 1961, and the Veterans Committee Poll in 2008.[7]

Year Readers Poll Critics Poll Veterans Committee Poll
1952 Louis Armstrong[8]
1953 Glenn Miller[9]
1954 Stan Kenton[10]
1955 Charlie Parker[11]
1956 Duke Ellington[12]
1957 Benny Goodman[13]
1958 Count Basie[14]
1959 Lester Young[15]
1960 Dizzy Gillespie[16]
1961 Billie Holiday[17] Coleman Hawkins[18]
1962 Miles Davis[19] Bix Beiderbecke[20]
1963 Thelonious Monk[21] Jelly Roll Morton[22]
1964 Eric Dolphy[23] Art Tatum[24]
1965 John Coltrane[25] Earl Hines[26]
1966 Bud Powell[27] Charlie Christian[28]
1967 Billy Strayhorn[29] Bessie Smith[30]
1968 Wes Montgomery[31] Sidney Bechet & Fats Waller[32]
1969 Ornette Coleman[33] Pee Wee Russell & Jack Teagarden[34]
1970 Jimi Hendrix[35] Johnny Hodges[36]
1971 Charles Mingus[37] Roy Eldridge & Django Reinhardt[38]
1972 Gene Krupa[39] Clifford Brown[40]
1973 Sonny Rollins[41] Fletcher Henderson[42]
1974 Buddy Rich[43] Ben Webster[44]
1975 Cannonball Adderley[45] Cecil Taylor[46]
1976 Woody Herman King Oliver[47]
1977 Paul Desmond Benny Carter[48]
1978 Joe Venuti Rahsaan Roland Kirk[49]
1979 Ella Fitzgerald Lennie Tristano[50]
1980 Dexter Gordon Max Roach[51]
1981 Art Blakey Bill Evans[52]
1982 Art Pepper Fats Navarro[53]
1983 Stéphane Grappelli Albert Ayler[54]
1984 Oscar Peterson[55] Sun Ra[56]
1985 Sarah Vaughan Zoot Sims[57]
1986 Stan Getz Gil Evans[58]
1987 Lionel Hampton Johnny Dodds, Thad Jones, Teddy Wilson[59]
1988 Jaco Pastorius Kenny Clarke[60]
1989 Woody Shaw Chet Baker[61]
1990 Red Rodney Mary Lou Williams[62]
1991 Lee Morgan John Carter[63]
1992 Maynard Ferguson James P. Johnson[64]
1993 Gerry Mulligan Ed Blackwell[65]
1994 Dave Brubeck Frank Zappa[66]
1995 J. J. Johnson Julius Hemphill[67]
1996 Horace Silver Artie Shaw[68]
1997 Nat King Cole Tony Williams[69]
1998 Frank Sinatra Elvin Jones[70]
1999 Milt Jackson[71] Betty Carter[72]
2000 Clark Terry Lester Bowie[73]
2001 Joe Henderson Milt Hinton[74]
2002 Antonio Carlos Jobim John Lewis[75]
2003 Ray Brown Wayne Shorter[76]
2004 McCoy Tyner Roy Haynes
2005 Herbie Hancock Steve Lacy
2006 Jimmy Smith Jackie McLean[77]
2007 Michael Brecker Andrew Hill[78]
2008 Keith Jarrett[79] Joe Zawinul Jo Jones, Jimmie Lunceford, Erroll Garner, Harry Carney, Jimmy Blanton
2009 Freddie Hubbard Hank Jones Oscar Pettiford, Tadd Dameron
2010 Muhal Richard Abrams Chick Corea Baby Dodds, Chick Webb, Philly Joe Jones, Billy Eckstine
2011 Ahmad Jamal Abbey Lincoln Paul Chambers
2012 Ron Carter Paul Motian Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt
2013 Pat Metheny Charlie Haden Robert Johnson
2014 B.B. King Jim Hall Bing Crosby, Dinah Washington
2015 Tony Bennett Lee Konitz Muddy Waters
2016 Phil Woods Randy Weston Hoagy Carmichael
2017 Wynton Marsalis[80] Don Cherry Eubie Blake, George Gershwin, Herbie Nichols
2018 Ray Charles Benny Golson[81] Marian McPartland
2019 Hank Mobley Nina Simone Scott LaFaro, Joe Williams
2020 George Benson Jimmy Heath Mildred Bailey, Carmen McRae
2021 Roy Hargrove[82] Carla Bley[83] Booker Little, Yusef Lateef
2022 Kenny Baron[84] Geri Allen[85]
2023 Pharoah Sanders[86] Alice Coltrane[87] Red Norvo, Mario Bauza

Awards

Album of the Year

Critics' Poll

Year Title Musician Label
1965 A Love Supreme John Coltrane Impulse!
1966 At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 Ornette Coleman Trio Blue Note
1967 The Popular Duke Ellington Duke Ellington RCA
1968 The Far East Suite Duke Ellington Bluebird/RCA
1969 ...And His Mother Called Him Bill Duke Ellington Bluebird/RCA
1970 Bitches Brew Miles Davis Columbia
1971 New Orleans Suite Duke Ellington Atlantic
1972 The You and Me That Used to Be Jimmy Rushing RCA
1973
(tie)		 Constellation Sonny Stitt Cobblestone
Sahara McCoy Tyner Milestone
1974 Solo Concerts Keith Jarrett ECM
1975 Silent Tongues Cecil Taylor Freedom
1976 Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie Pablo
1977 Creative Orchestra Music 1976 Anthony Braxton Arista
1978
(tie)		 Insights Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band RCA
Dancing in Your Head Ornette Coleman Horizon
Sophisticated Giant Dexter Gordon Columbia
Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard Dexter Gordon Columbia
Nonaah Roscoe Mitchell Nessa
1979 Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Charles Mingus Atlantic
1980 Air Lore Air Arista/Novus
1981 Full Force Art Ensemble of Chicago ECM
1982 Playing Old and New Dreams ECM
1983 Blues Forever Muhal Richard Abrams Black Saint
1984 The Ballad of the Fallen Charlie Haden ECM
1985 That's the Way I Feel Now Various A&M
1986 The African Flower James Newton Blue Note
1987 Song X Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman Geffen
1988 In All Languages Ornette Coleman Caravan of Dreams
1989 Audio-Visualscapes Jack DeJohnette Impulse!
1990 In East Berlin Cecil Taylor FMP
1991 Dream Keeper Charlie Haden Blue Note
1992 Lush Life Joe Henderson Verve
1993 So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) Joe Henderson Verve
1994 Always Say Goodbye Charlie Haden Verve
1995 Rush Hour Joe Lovano & Gunther Schuller Verve
1996 Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note Keith Jarrett Standards Trio ECM
1997 Sound Museum: Hidden Man Ornette Coleman Quartet Harmolodic/Verve
1998 Nashville Bill Frisell Nonesuch
1999 Gershwin's World Herbie Hancock Verve
2000 Soul on Soul Dave Douglas RCA
2001 Dusk Andrew Hill Palmetto
2002 Not for Nothin' Dave Holland ECM
2003 Footprints Live! Wayne Shorter Quartet Verve
2004 Extended Play: Live at Birdland Dave Holland Quintet ECM
2005 Concert in the Garden Maria Schneider ArtistShare
2006 Time Lines Andrew Hill Blue Note
2007 Sound Grammar Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar
2008 Sky Blue Maria Schneider ArtistShare
2009 Road Shows, Vol. 1 Sonny Rollins Doxy/EmArcy
2010 Historicity Vijay Iyer ACT
2011 Ten Jason Moran Blue Note
2012 Accelerando Vijay Iyer ACT
2013 Without a Net Wayne Shorter Quartet Blue Note
2014 WomanChild Cécile McLorin Salvant Mack Avenue
2015 Bird Calls Rudresh Mahanthappa ACT
2016 The Epic Kamasi Washington Brainfeeder
2017 America's National Parks Wadada Leo Smith Cuneiform
2018 Dreams and Daggers Cécile McLorin Salvant Mack Avenue
2019 Emanon Wayne Shorter Blue Note
2020 Waiting Game Terri Lyne Carrington Motema Music
2021 Data Lords Maria Schneider Orchestra ArtistShare
2022 Jesup Wagon James Brandon Lewis and the Red Lily Quintet Tao Forms
2023 Amaryllis & Belladonna Mary Halvorson Nonesuch

Lifetime Achievement Award

See also

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