Metronome (magazine)

Metronome was a music magazine published from 1881 until 1961.
The magazine in its early years catered for musicians in marching and then dance bands, but from the swing era, "Metronome" focused primarily on the genre of Jazz music appealing to fans. Writers for the magazine were its co-editors, Leonard Feather and Barry Ulanov; Miles Davis cited them as the only two white music critics in New York to understand bebop.
The magazine closed in 1961.
Metronome All-Stars Band.
"Metronome" magazine conducted an annual poll during the years 1939-1961
to choose the musicians whom their readers considered as the top jazz instrumentalists, for that year, playing each instrument. Often, the "Metronome" organization recorded the all-stars on a regular basis, with recording sessions of the bands chosen in 1939-1942, 1945–1950, 1953, and 1956.
In many cases, the all-stars group recorded two songs, with short solo performances, from nearly all of the participants.
In 1940, "Metronome" magazine organized the Metronome All Star Nine, including Harry James, Jack Teagarden, Benny Carter, Jess Stacy, Charlie Christian and Gene Krupa.
The all-stars band had several name variations: Metronome All Star Nine; Metronome All Stars; Metronome All Stars 1956; The Metronome All-Stars; or Metronome Allstars.
"Metronome" Hall of Fame series.
The following artists were inducted into "Metronome"s Hall of Fame series. According to jazz musician and "Metronome" contributor George T. Simon, the series "was designed to recognize sidemen, not leaders", but "quite a number of these sidemen eventually wound up as leaders".