Talk:DownBeat

Rain on the Parade
Hate to rain on your parade but 'DownBeat' is one word. AFAIK it's always been that. To make matters worse you don't even redirect properly.

Blindfold Tests
Thank you for mentioning the blindfold tests. However I feel the text slightly misrepresents the nature of the test. While it is true that the blindfolded musicians very often do try to guess the identity of the artist they're listening to (though in a number of cases they don't even make that attempt) this is not entirely what the blindfold test is about. One important purpose of these tests is to let a musician voice his/her opinion on a recording without being biased (positively or negatively) by previous knowledge of the artist's name. Particularly the article's last sentence "Musicians that get 50% right do better than average." suggests a mere guessing game. But Leonard Feather's blindfold test was much more, both in its design and even more so in its unforeseen outcomes. Links for further information on the subject: http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=920654712 http://www.leonardfeather.com/feather_29.html Would add some information to this article on Down Beat, but am too unexperienced a Wikipedian. Give me some time. Sluzzelin 17:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

"Musicians that get 50% right on the "Blindfold Test" do better than average." - At what?? Wendy Collings (talk) 04:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Presumably guessing the artist's name, i.e. on average musicians correctly identify fewer than 50% of artists by listening to a recording. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

not monthly?
if "In April 1979, Down Beat went to a monthly schedule for the first time since 1939." how frequently was the magazine published prior to that?

J Edward Malone (talk) 13:29, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It was fortnightly in 1965, according to p119 of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, so I'd go with that, although there's no source for the change happening in 1979. EddieHugh (talk) 19:34, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * More info here. The change to monthly is mentioned here, although the AACM source I gave above states Sep, not July, 1979 as the first monthly issue (p344).

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