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DownBeat
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Categories Music magazine
Frequency Monthly
Year founded 1934[1]
Company Maher Publications
Country United States
Based in Chicago
Language English
Website www.downbeat.com
ISSN 0012-5768
DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) 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.[2] 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.

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.

In April 1979, DownBeat went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939.

Contents [hide]
1 Awards
1.1 Lifetime Achievement Award
1.2 Hall of Fame
1.3 Veterans Committee Hall of Fame
1.4 Album of the Year
1.4.1 Critics' Poll
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Awards[edit]
Lifetime Achievement Award[edit]
1981 John H. Hammond
1982 George Wein
1983 Leonard Feather
1984 Billy Taylor
1985 Lawrence Berk
1986 Orrin Keepnews
1987 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
Hall of Fame[edit]
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 in 2008.[3]

Year Readers Poll Critics Poll

1952 Louis Armstrong[4]
1953 Glenn Miller[5]
1954 Stan Kenton[6]
1955 Charlie Parker[7]
1956 Duke Ellington[8]
1957 Benny Goodman[9]
1958 Count Basie[10]
1959 Lester Young[11]
1960 Dizzy Gillespie[12]
1961 Billie Holiday[13] Coleman Hawkins[14]
1962 Miles Davis[15] Bix Beiderbecke[16]
1963 Thelonious Monk[17] Jelly Roll Morton[18]
1964 Eric Dolphy[19] Art Tatum[20]
1965 John Coltrane[21] Earl Hines[22]
1966 Bud Powell[23] Charlie Christian[24]
1967 Billy Strayhorn[25] Bessie Smith[26]
1968 Wes Montgomery[27] Sidney Bechet & Fats Waller[28]
1969 Ornette Coleman[29] Pee Wee Russell & Jack Teagarden[30]
1970 Jimi Hendrix[31] Johnny Hodges[32]
1971 Charles Mingus[33] Roy Eldridge & Django Reinhardt[34]
1972 Gene Krupa[35] Clifford Brown[36]
1973 Sonny Rollins[37] Fletcher Henderson[38]
1974 Buddy Rich[39] Ben Webster[40]
1975 Cannonball Adderley[41] Cecil Taylor[42]
1976 Woody Herman King Oliver[43]
1977 Paul Desmond Benny Carter[44]
1978 Joe Venuti Rahsaan Roland Kirk[45]
1979 Ella Fitzgerald Lennie Tristano[46]
1980 Dexter Gordon Max Roach[47]
1981 Art Blakey Bill Evans[48]
1982 Art Pepper Fats Navarro[49]
1983 St�phane Grappelli Albert Ayler[50]
1984 Oscar Peterson[51] Sun Ra[52]
1985 Sarah Vaughan Zoot Sims[53]
1986 Stan Getz Gil Evans[54]
1987 Lionel Hampton Johnny Dodds, Thad Jones, Teddy Wilson[55]
1988 Jaco Pastorius Kenny Clarke[56]
1989 Woody Shaw Chet Baker[57]
1990 Red Rodney Mary Lou Williams[58]
1991 Lee Morgan John Carter[59]
1992 Maynard Ferguson James P. Johnson[60]
1993 Gerry Mulligan Ed Blackwell[61]
1994 Dave Brubeck Frank Zappa[62]
1995 J. J. Johnson Julius Hemphill[63]
1996 Horace Silver Artie Shaw[64]
1997 Nat King Cole Tony Williams[65]
1998 Frank Sinatra Elvin Jones[66]
1999 Milt Jackson[67] Betty Carter[68]
2000 Clark Terry Lester Bowie[69]
2001 Joe Henderson Milt Hinton[70]
2002 Antonio Carlos Jobim John Lewis[71]
2003 Ray Brown Wayne Shorter[72]
2004 McCoy Tyner Roy Haynes
2005 Herbie Hancock Steve Lacy
2006 Jimmy Smith Jackie McLean[73]
2007 Michael Brecker Andrew Hill[74]
2008 Keith Jarrett[75] Joe Zawinul
2009 Freddie Hubbard Hank Jones
2010 Muhal Richard Abrams Chick Corea
2011 Ahmad Jamal Abbey Lincoln
2012 Ron Carter Paul Motian
2013 Pat Metheny Charlie Haden
2014 B.B. King Jim Hall
2015 Tony Bennett Lee Konitz
2016 Phil Woods Randy Weston
2017 Wynton Marsalis[76] Don Cherry