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Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the "downbeat" in music also called the "one beat" or the first beat of a musical measure.

Down Beat publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The Down Beat 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.

Well-known features of Down Beat 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. Musicians that get 50% right on the "Blindfold Test" do better than average.

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

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Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame

The Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame is maintained at Universal Studios' City Jazz club in Orlando, Florida. Current membership, by year, is listed in the following table. The critics' poll was not initiated until 1961, so winners before then were all chosen by readers' polls.

Year Readers Poll Critics Poll
1952 Louis Armstrong1
1953 Glenn Miller2
1954 Stan Kenton3
1955 Charlie Parker4
1956 Duke Ellington5
1957 Benny Goodman6
1958 Count Basie7
1959 Lester Young8
1960 Dizzy Gillespie9
1961 Billie Holiday10 Coleman Hawkins11
1962 Miles Davis12 Bix Beiderbecke13
1963 Thelonious Monk14 Jelly Roll Morton15
1964 Eric Dolphy16 Art Tatum17
1965 John Coltrane18 Earl Hines19
1966 Bud Powell20 Charlie Christian21
1967 Billy Strayhorn22 Bessie Smith23
1968 Wes Montgomery24 Sidney Bechet & Fats Waller25
1969 Ornette Coleman26 Pee Wee Russell & Jack Teagarden27
1970 Jimi Hendrix28 Johnny Hodges29
1971 Charles Mingus30 Roy Eldridge & Django Reinhardt31
1972 Gene Krupa32 Clifford Brown33
1973 Sonny Rollins34 Fletcher Henderson35
1974 Buddy Rich36 Ben Webster37
1975 Cannonball Adderley38 Cecil Taylor39
1976 Woody Herman King Oliver40
1977 Paul Desmond Benny Carter41
1978 Joe Venuti Rahsaan Roland Kirk42
1979 Ella Fitzgerald Lennie Tristano43
1980 Dexter Gordon Max Roach44
1981 Art Blakey Bill Evans45
1982 Art Pepper Fats Navarro46
1983 Stéphane Grappelli Albert Ayler47
1984 Oscar Peterson48 Sun Ra49
1985 Sarah Vaughan Zoot Sims50
1986 Stan Getz Gil Evans51
1987 Lionel Hampton Johnny Dodds, Thad Jones, Teddy Wilson52
1988 Jaco Pastorius Kenny Clarke53
1989 Woody Shaw Chet Baker54
1990 Red Rodney Mary Lou Williams55
1991 Lee Morgan John Carter56
1992 Maynard Ferguson James P. Johnson57
1993 Gerry Mulligan Edward Blackwell58
1994 Dave Brubeck Frank Zappa59
1995 J. J. Johnson Julius Hemphill60
1996 Horace Silver Artie Shaw61
1997 Nat King Cole Tony Williams62
1998 Frank Sinatra Elvin Jones63
1999 Milt Jackson64 Betty Carter65
2000 Clark Terry Lester Bowie66
2001 Joe Henderson Milt Hinton67
2002 Antonio Carlos Jobim John Lewis68
2003 Ray Brown Wayne Shorter69
2004 McCoy Tyner Roy Haynes
2005 Herbie Hancock Steve Lacy
2006 Jimmy Smith Jackie McLean70
2007 Michael Brecker Andrew Hill71
2008 Keith Jarrett72 Joe Zawinul

Veterans Committee Hall of Fame

2008: Jo Jones, Jimmie Lunceford, Erroll Garner, Harry Carney, Jimmy Blanton

Down Beat Jazz Album of the Year

An essential contribution of the critics' and readers' polls published in the August resp. December issues are the selections for "Jazz Album of the Year", listing the dozen or so most popular albums. Listed here are the top 3 albums of the selections:

2006 critics' poll:
(1) Andrew Hill: Time Lines (Blue Note)
(2) Wayne Shorter Quartet: Beyond The Sound Barrier (Verve)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Without A Song (The 9/11 Concert) (Milestone)

2007 critics' poll:
(1) Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
(2) Trio Beyond: Saudades (ECM)
(3) Sonny Rollins: Sonny, Please (Doxy)

2008 critics' poll:
(1) Maria Schneider: Sky Blue (ArtistShare)
(2) Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage (Heads Up)
(3) Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Blue Note)

References

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