DownBeat Magazine

   
We have been asked  by the publisher  to remove DownBeat magazine or we will be contacted by attorneys. So we have closed the DownBeat page. This is the only music magazine in the world that has prohibited the use of older issues on our site, and we had hoped to include their in-depth jazz coverage... a genre not generally covered in depth in other publications. And, further confusing us, issues as recent as 2020 of DownBeat are on Internet Archive!

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This site had the only searchable index of  the magazine on this or any other place on this planet.That resource is now deleted.
 
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Your webmaster's first job in radio in 1959 was at WCUY 92.3, an FM station in Cleveland, Ohio. It programmed jazz exclusively, and our studio was always full of back issues of Down Beat and there was a notebook with articles about most of the artists we played; we referred to that often when adding "color" to the introduction off a particular album cut.
An interesting jazz site:
 
DownBeat
30's 34 35 36 37 38 39
               
40's 40 41 42 43 44
Twice Monthly through 1945 (24 per year)
           
40's 45 46 47 48 49
Biweekly from 1946 Onwards (26 per year)
           
50's 50 51 52 53 54
           
50's 55 56 57 58 59
           
60's 60 61 62 63 64
           
60s 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
70s          
           
70s 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
           
80s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Monthly from October 1979 Onwards (12 per year)
           
80s 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
           
90s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
           
90s 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
           
00s More Recent Issues for Sale at DownBeatt