Tuesday, March 3, 2015

DownBeat Magazine


Moran To Curate Kennedy Center 2015–’16 Jazz Season
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has announced its 2015–’16 jazz season, under the leadership of Kennedy Center Artistic Direct …  
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Features
Beautiful Spirit
The Life and Legacy of Michael Brecker
By Bill Milkowski
DownBeat presents a recap of the recent all-star concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center that paid tribute to jazz’s most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane. We also check in with Susan Brecker, who honors her late husband by raising money for groundbreaking cancer research.


Navigating the Digital Jungle
How Jazz Artists Survive in the New Media Era
By Allen Morrison
These days, it’s easier than ever for jazz artists to record, but harder than ever for them to monetize their recordings. DownBeat speaks to leading independent jazz musicians, label executives and industry analysts to find out what they make of the radically altered music marketplace and what strategies they have devised for doing business in the digital age.


Rob Mazurek
Opposing Forces
By Bill Meyer
The multi-instrumentalist envisions his art as a generative and dynamic thing—“a living organism moving through space,” as he eloquently puts it.

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