DownBeat Magazine

Marian McPartland: What’s It Like To Be a Woman in a Man’s Jazz World? It Has Problems
Published 9/1/1957

Marian McPartland threw back her head and laughed. “You have no idea how often I’ve been asked that,” she said. “And, actually, I don’t know how to answer it.”

The questions were: What are your comments on being a woman in a man’s world, the wo …  
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Take It Easier On Our Tunes, Fellas, Richard Rodgers Asks Of Arrangers
Published 7/15/1953

The periodic question of the wrath of a composer at some jazz arrangement of his tune has plagued the livelier side of the music business ever since Paul Whiteman.

It probably will never be completely settled as long as composers and music fans …  
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Mike Brecker: Music Is What I Do!
Published 6/1/1973

It was 45 minutes before the first set on opening night of a five-night gig Horace Silver’s new quintet was doing at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Tenor player Mike Brecker, who with his brother Randy on trumpet front the group, sat by himself …  
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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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