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In This Issue
- Veronica Swift: Overnight Veteran ║ By Suzanne Lorge
- Singer-songwriter Veronica Swift has been touring since age 9. Now, at 26, she’s a music biz veteran exploring a variety of artistic disciplines. DownBeat catches up with the bandleader to discuss her career and her forthcoming album, This Bitter Earth. Our feature on Swift is followed by two dozen artist profiles that are part of our cover package, “25 For The Future.”
- 25 For The Future
- Musicians with the potential to shape the evolution of the jazz genre:
• Shabaka Hutchings
• Jazzmeia Horn
• Christian Sands
• Camila Meza
• Nubya Garcia
• Nduduzo Makhathini
• Makaya McCraven
• Lakecia Benjamin
• Junius Paul
• Morgan Guerin
• Yazz Ahmed
• James Francies
• Kuba Wiecek
• Fabian Almazan
• Theo Croker
• Jimmy Macbride
• Camille Thurman
• Alfredo Rodríguez
• Hedvig Mollestad
• Adam O’Farrill
• Tomeka Reid
• Luke Stewart
• Yussef Dayes
• Joel Ross
- Blindfold Test: Noah Preminger ║ By Gary Fukushima
- Even before the saxophonist topped the Rising Star–Tenor Saxophone category in the 2017 DownBeat Critics Poll, he’d issued a handful of leader dates, including a protest album, Meditations On Freedom. In October, SteepleChase is set to issue his quartet album Contemptment. This is Preminger’s first Blindfold Test.
- Recording School: Pro Session ║ By Keith Baumann
- Long-Distance Workarounds: Remote Collaborative Recording Solutions
- The Hot Box
- • Ben Wendel, High Heart (Edition)
• Nary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
• Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
• Miki Yamanaka, Human Dust Suite (Outside In Music)
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Founded in 1934, DownBeat magazine is the world's premiere international jazz periodcal. It enjoys a rich legacy as “The Bible of Jazz,” having covered the most dynamic American music and musicians to emerge in the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the decades, millions of readers have been led to artists and recordings on the strength of DownBeat reviews, interviews, profiles, instructional articles and news reporting. DownBeat is owned and operated by Elmhurst, Illinois-based Maher Publications, a family-owned business. It is published 12 times annually.
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