DownBeat Magazine

Sheila Jordan: Improvising Singer
Published 5/9/1963

She does not, at first glance, have the appearance one expects of a singer. No painted-doll masquerade for Sheila Jordan. Her face, like Billie Holiday’s, is one that obviously has seen many things it would prefer to forget. Yet in repose it is rich …  
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Manhattan Transfer: Sings The Songs Of Birdland 
Published 3/1/1980

Vocal groups have long been an anomaly in jazz, and particularly in the DownBeat Readers Poll. Established in 1944, DownBeat’s Vocal Group category was won for the first six years by the Pied Pipers, then for three years by the Mills Brothers, for fi …  
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The Jazz Scene Today
Published 7/1/1953

(Editor’s Note: This essay by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco is part of a series of articles that will appear in DownBeat, written by many of the leading jazzmen of all idioms.)

For a long time now, I have watched the music business degenera …  
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Lewis Nash: Connecting to the Source
Published 3/1/2013

Somewhere in the Good Book it says, “Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.” There is no greater proof of this verse than the itinerary of Lewis Nash, who definitely qualifies as “whoever has”& …  
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