More than 1,000 classic articles and photographs from Down Beat magazine, one of the the world's premier jazz magazines from the past sixty five or so years. Down Beat: Sixty Years of Jazz offers a rare glimpse into the lives and times of such great artists as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and many more.

The history of Down Beat magazine is a history of the twentieth century as told through the creators of America's classical music - jazz. Down Beat: Sixty Years of Jazz is a loving tribute to that history and the unfiorgettable artists who made it.

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