DownBeat Magazine # October 2013 Volume 80, Number 10
DownBeat Magazine
DownBeat Magazine - October 2013
| Editor | DownBeat Magazine |
| Date | October 2013 |
| Format | Magazine |
| Pages | |
| Location | USA |
| Language | English |
| Link | downbeat.com web.archive.org |
- Cover
- Gregory Porter
- The Storyteller
- By Allen Morrison
- Although Porter has great technical strengths as a singer—a round, sonorous baritone, effortless intonation and clear elocution—his appeal is not purely musical. It’s more about filling an ancient human need for a storyteller.
- Features
- Glenn Miller Orchestra @ 75
- The Busiest Big Band in America
- By John McDonough
- Take any big band in DownBeat’s polls, add in the ghosts of Mingus, Basie, Shaw, the Dorseys, Herman and Kenton, and you still wouldn’t match the road time that the Miller band logs by bus.
- John Zorn
- Genius at Work
- By Bill Milkowski
- In honor of his 60th birthday, we examine the career of a composer wholly committed to his art.
- Roberto Fonseca
- ‘The Music Is Alive’
- By Fred Bouchard
- DownBeat catches up with the Cuban-born pianist backstage at the French festival Jazz À Vienne.
- Where To Study Jazz 2014
- Student Music Guide
- 192 Schools Listed
- Players
- Jonathan Finlayson
- Carmen Souza
- Zach Brock
- Vadim Neselovskyi
- Blindfold Test
- Saxophonist Branford Marsalis was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test” :
- Dexter Gordon : “Cheese Cake” from Go Blue Note
- Ravi Coltrane : “Who Wants Ice Cream” from Spirit Fiction Blue Note
- Dave Liebman/Michael Stephans : “Here, There And Everywhere” from Lineage : Rock And Pop Classics Revisited Whaling City Sound
- David “Fathead” Newman : “Blues For Ball” from Back To Basics Milestone
- S.O.S. : “News” from Looking For The Next One Cuneiform
- David Murray Infinity Quartet : “Stressology” from Be My Monster Love Motéma
- Also In This Issue
- 2014 NEA Jazz Masters, Montreal Jazz Festival Caught, Umbria Jazz Caught, Toronto Jazz Festival Caught, Dee Dee Bridgewater in Lady Day, Farewell George Duke, Anthony Branker Master Class, Matt Shevitz Pro Session, Dan Wilensky Pro Session, Ornette Coleman Transcription, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, plus Dozens of CD Reviews, Product Reviews and Much More !
