Kate Davis Wins 2 Downbeat Student Music Awards
May 19, 2009 by Jim
May 4th, Downbeat Magazine Chose Kate Davis as Best Vocalist and Outstanding Soloist on Bass
Downbeat Magazine selected Kate Davis for two awards in the 32nd Annual Downbeat Student Music awards in the June 2009 issue.
She won Jazz Vocal Soloist (High School Category) and Jazz Soloist (Bass, Outstanding Performance).
About Down Beat Over the decades it has instructed, recommended, criticized, praised, condemned, advocated and, in the aggregate, honored the most dynamic American music of the twentieth century. Millions have been led to records and artists on the strength of a Down Beat review, news tip, or profile. It has shaped young tastes in need of guidance and challenged older ones in need of a wake-up call. In the 1930s, before any important book on jazz had yet been written, Down Beat collected the first important body of pre-1935 jazz history. It became a monthly, then semi-monthly, a diary of the swing era as it happened, then tracked the progression of bop, pop, rock, freedom, fusion, and nineties neoclassicism, all from the perspective of the musician. Hard to believe it began by selling insurance.
A History As Rich As Jazz Itself
There are many roads to jazz, as any collection of fans will demonstrate. But for many of those fans, whose age today can fall anywhere between 10 and 80, that road has been paved with issues of Down Beat magazine.
Bravo!