Brass Winners of the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll
DownBeat Magazine has announced the winners of its 68th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll. With jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington becoming the first female instrumentalist to win the Jazz Artist of the Year category, the following brass artists won for their respective categories:
Trumpet: Ambrose Akinmusire
Trombone: Wycliffe Gordon
Rising Star–Trumpet: Jaimie Branch
Rising Star–Trombone: Nick Finzer
– DownBeat
This article was originally published in DownBeat on July 6, 2020.