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Downbeat Magazine covers. 10 photos · 273 views. By: BustBright An After Hours Studio.
Down Beat magazine photos and covers Some of the photographs which I took in the Birdhouse were used for covers and article illustrations by Down Beat magazine. Photos were chosen from black and white and Kodacolor enlargements, which I made in the Institute of Design darkroom at IIT. White borders have been added to scans of the color covers to minimize poor shadow inking on the original ...
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Feb 10, 2013 - Still going today, Downbeat magazine features Jazz, Blues and Rock. Here are some nice scans of various covers from the sixties and seventies. Cover stars include Stevie Wonder, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Dr John, John Coltrane and more. Nice! Related posts:Bust'n Out All Over - Frederick's of HollywoodBrimful of Sixties Record AdvertsForty Pages from the Sears 1969 [&hellip
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Albert J. Lipschultz was neither a full-time musician nor a professional journalist. He had no interest in leading a band, acquiring power, or editorializing on the affairs of the world. Al Lipschultz had only one interest. That was selling insurance. After washing out as a saxophone player in Chicago during the years of World War I, he looked for ...
Fresh forces stirred in popular music in the mid thirties, and where they were heading was not at first clear. Black bandleaders such as Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb and Bennie Moten may have been denied access to the prestige hotel venues and big money of the top commercial white bands. On the other hand, they were free of commer...
By the beginning of the year, DownBeat was getting behind Benny Goodman in a big way. “Benny Goodman on Air in Amazing Program” a headline shouted in January. The Goodman orchestra pushed west, sometimes in the face of discouraging indifference, to keep its date with fate at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, where lightning finally struck and Go...
As DownBeat’s authority grew, the editors began to recognize the publicity value of a readers poll. Late in 1936, the first ballots were printed. DownBeat set up separate categories for swing and sweet bands, and asked readers, while they were at it, to nominate an “all-time corn band.” The category was replaced the next year by simply “the king of...
Of the three major jazz/big band publications in place by the late ‘30s, each had its reputation. Orchestra World was widely regarded as a bulletin board for PR agents. This left Metronome, whose history began in 1885 as a classical publication, and DownBeat to slug it out. Metronome, which was family-owned by Ned Bittner and edited by George Simon...
Ned Williams, a veteran publicist who had edited a house magazine for Irving Mills’ company and had done publicity for Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington, came over from the Hansen-Williams PR agency to become managing editor of DownBeat in Chicago. Mike Levin, who had been a stringer, was hired to replace Dexter in New York. Both men would dominate D...
In the late ‘40s, jazz seemed to be losing its cohesion. As the big band era ebbed and swing stars were dismissed as “has-beens,” tradition and modernism fought for the privilege of defining jazz. Even the word “jazz” seemed curiously passé to some. So in July 1949 DownBeat took it upon itself to announce a contest for the best word to replace “jaz...
In 1953, there was a slump. Suber remembers circulation dipping to below 40,000 and sinking. In broadening coverage, he recalls, the magazine had gone off in many directions and thus had no direction. As Nat Hentoff replaced Feather as New York editor in September, Weiser, Tracy, and Suber tackled the magazine’s larger problems in Chicago. One stra...
Maher generally respected editorial independence, and rarely crowded its prerogatives unless something profoundly offended him. He would become involved in editorial questions when he thought they had direct sales consequences-such as artists represented on the magazine’s cover. He would look at newsstand sales, for example. If he saw a drop, commo...
There were indeed advertisers who were unhappy about too many black faces on the cover,” Suber recalled, “though nobody canceled his advertising.” One of the reasons Maher listened to his advertisers was that he didn’t see Life, Look, Time, The Saturday Review, The Atlantic, or other general-interest publications in any great hurry to put black sub...
Oct 5, 2021 · Published November 17, 1966. In a restaurant-bar in Greenwich Village, tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was ruminating on the disparity between renown and income. In his case, anyway. Covers of his albums are…. T.S. Monk at home.
Aug 8, 2024 · DownBeat Magazine, 1934 – present. Now in its seventh decade, DownBeat is without a doubt the Bible of jazz music. In its early years, DownBeat covered the big-band era, but as the jazz scene and the birth of bebop came along, DownBeat was there to cover it all. DownBeat has written about every legendary jazz artist you can think of, from ...
