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  • Thumbnail for Kurt Elling
    (2009) and Secrets Are the Best Stories (2021). Elling often leads the Down Beat magazine Critics' Poll. He had a longtime collaboration with pianist...
    24 KB (2,320 words) - 15:26, 24 May 2024
  • later studied film scoring and electronic music at UCLA. In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's poll for trombonist, and appears on the classic 1976 recording...
    8 KB (600 words) - 02:40, 8 June 2024
  • Blues" is a song by The McSon Trio released in 1949 as a single on the Down Beat Records label (later known as "Swing Time Records"). The single featured...
    3 KB (306 words) - 04:05, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Julius Watkins
    AllMusic as "virtually the father of the jazz French horn", Watkins won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for Miscellaneous Instrument. Watkins...
    13 KB (1,246 words) - 21:39, 18 May 2024
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    archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s." Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981). Posthumously, he was inducted into the...
    39 KB (4,162 words) - 15:27, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eddie Safranski
    Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman and Bobby Darin. From 1946 to 1953 he won the Down Beat Readers' Poll for bassist. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United...
    6 KB (459 words) - 07:30, 1 April 2024
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    quartet. He was the first Italian musician mentioned as a "new talent" in the Down Beat poll and the first Italian officially invited to a jazz festival in...
    11 KB (640 words) - 09:28, 11 April 2024
  • College Jazz Band for the Discovery Records Trend AM-PM label, it became the Down Beat Magazine 1st Place Award Winner in the College Big Band Jazz category...
    9 KB (759 words) - 06:28, 25 January 2021
  • Woody Herman. She was briefly married to Al Cohn. In 1949, she won the Down Beat Readers' Poll for "Girl Singer (With Band)". Mary McCall Sings (Discovery...
    2 KB (158 words) - 11:08, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roomful of Blues
    tour de force of horn-fried blues…Roomful is so tight and so right." The Down Beat International Critics Poll has twice selected Roomful of Blues as Best...
    14 KB (1,588 words) - 22:49, 28 June 2024
  • Reid, and drummer Tony Williams. In 2004, Eastman won third place in the Down Beat magazine Readers' Poll for Best Female Jazz Vocalist and made the list...
    3 KB (257 words) - 00:08, 10 January 2024
  • Goodman (briefly in 1947), and Mel Powell (1947). He led his own band at the Down Beat Room Cafe in Los Angeles from late 1947, and also led an all-female...
    3 KB (309 words) - 15:06, 6 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Joey DeFrancesco
    and 2020, DeFrancesco was a 9-time winner of the Down Beat Critics Poll (organ) and won the Down Beat Readers Poll every year since 2005. He won a number...
    23 KB (1,923 words) - 22:41, 16 June 2024
  • Andersen and Jon Christensen K Karin Krog Open Space (MPS Records), the Down Beat Poll Winners in Europe V Jan Erik Vold Briskeby Blues (Philips Records)...
    6 KB (542 words) - 05:50, 18 April 2024
  • the industry at the time. Despite his fallout with Goodman, he won the Down Beat readers' poll in 1943. He later moved to Los Angeles and worked in the...
    4 KB (356 words) - 04:35, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vossajazz
    Vossajazz was a musical event with a blend of different impressions. The Down Beat report gives the festival splendid reviews and opens with stating: "A...
    11 KB (890 words) - 07:29, 14 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eric Blom
    translated by Emily Anderson. In 1941 Blom wrote a detective novel, Death on the Down Beat, using the pseudonym Sebastian Farr. The novel concerns the shooting...
    12 KB (1,233 words) - 11:32, 8 April 2024
  • a group with Al Grey, The Al Grey Billy Mitchell Sextet, which won the Down Beat magazine new band award in 1962. Mitchell performed and recorded with...
    8 KB (847 words) - 10:05, 26 November 2023
  • Association for Japanese Studies, Venice) and of the International Jury of the Down Beat Annual Critics Poll (USA), he has been editor-in-chief of the monthly...
    4 KB (485 words) - 14:54, 2 July 2021
  • sessions in New York City. Starting in 1984, Black Saint/Soul Note won the Down Beat Critics Poll for best record label for six subsequent years until they...
    42 KB (324 words) - 18:19, 12 July 2024
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