Elvin Jones – 1968 DownBeat Jazz Critics Poll Award For Top Drummer
Jazz great Elvin Jones’s DownBeat Jazz Critic’s Poll Award, presented by DownBeat magazine to the legendary musician, who was voted the top drummer of 1968. That year, Jones released two albums, Heavy Sounds on Impulse, with Richard Davis and Frank Foster, and his first Blue Note album, Puttin’ It Together, backed by Joe Farrell and […]