Metronome (magazine)

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Metronome was an American jazz magazine that appeared in New York City from January 1885 .

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It was founded as a general music magazine and was transformed into a leading swing and jazz magazine from 1935 under George T. Simon . In the big band era, u. a. Leonard Feather , Amy Lee , Barbara Hodgkins , Peter Dean , Bob Bach , Inez Cavanaugh , Timme Rosenkrantz, and Doron K. Antrim , who was editor in 1935 when Simon stepped in. Simon was the editor from 1939 to 1955 and reported regularly on the current big bands. He used a rating system that ranged from A to D, plus and minus included. The promotion of the bebop movement in the magazine by Barry Ulanov was also important . The decline began at the end of the 1950s, and the magazine was discontinued in 1961 (last year vol. 78, 1961).

From 1939 to 1961, Metronome organized annual reader polls and recorded the winners regularly (1939 to 1942, 1945 to 1950, 1953, 1956) as Metronome All-Stars on records, e.g. B. with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in 1949.

Metronome Reader Polls

Details of the poll winners according to Roger Kinkle for 1939 to 1955 in the categories piano, guitar, bass, drums, singer, singer, trumpet, trombone, various instruments, clarinet, alto / tenor / baritone saxophone. Kinkle does not list winners until 1939.

Otherwise after Feather, Gitler Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz , Oxford University Press 1990 and Feather's new edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz , Horizon Press, after 1960. There are entries in the individual musicians' biographies.

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

No poll according to Kinkle.

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

According to Feather:

1957

According to Feather:

1958

According to Feather:

1959

According to Feather:

1960

According to Feather

literature

  • George T. Simon: The Golden Era of Big Bands. Hannibal, Höfen 2004, ISBN 3-854-45243-8
  • The complete list of poll winners up to 1955 is in Roger D. Kinkle's The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900-1950 , 4 volumes, Arlington House, New Rochelle 1974
  • The magazine's Metronome Year Books appeared regularly .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Main competitors were Down Beat Magazine , founded in 1934, and Melody Maker , founded in 1926
  2. ^ Roger Kinkle The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900-1950 , Volume 4, Arlington House 1974
  3. ↑ Simply quoted as Feather, since the works build on one another. But there are contradictions there, B. Harry James is given for the years 1939 to 1946 without specifying the division, Benny Goodman for 1940 to 1949 and Tommy Dorsey for 1937 and 1939-1946
  4. ↑ Bunny Berigan is also given in Feather
  5. ↑ Simon, big bands are Helen O'Connell at
  6. ↑ After Feather
  7. ↑ After Feather
  8. ↑ After Feather
  9. ↑ After Feather
  10. ↑ After Feather
  11. ↑ Fifth place: Mary Lou Williams ; see. Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa, by Ingrid Tolia Monson
  12. ↑ According to Feather Billy Eckstine among the winners.
  13. ↑ After Feather
  14. ^ For 1960: Explicit list in Feather The New Encyclopedia of Jazz , Horizon Press