DownBeat — which calls itself the world’s oldest jazz magazine — turns 75 this year. And the big anniversary has stirred memories at DownBeat’s main office in Elmhurst, a place where photos of jazz ...

Seventy-five years ago, a new Chicago publication began chronicling a fast-growing music: the big bands. And though the touring ensembles started to fade by the late-1940s, DownBeat emerged as one of ...

In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled ...

In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson declared: "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." There's no better proof than this remarkable anthology from DownBeat magazine, which ...