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2 unusual facts about Metronome


A. B. Spellman

In 1959, Spellman began a career as a music critic for a number of magazines including Metronome and Down Beat, for which he wrote reviews of jazz music and musicians.

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

Metronomic society: Natural rhythms and human timetables (1988)


Clint Crisher

Living in Washington, DC, Crisher began performing his own original music regularly in local D.C. clubs and events including the Velvet Nation party at Nation, Tracks, Millennium at the 9:30 Club, Ozone, The Capitol Ballroom,and Cobalt and in NYC nightclubs Metronome, Avalon, Splash, Webster Hall, Starlight, and Home.

Doin' the Jive

Glenn Miller biographer and confidant George T. Simon reviewed the song in the March, 1938 issue of Metronome magazine, describing it as "much swing, fun, and good Kitty Lane singing."

George T. Simon

After leaving Metronome, he was involved with the Jazztone Society (1956–57), was a consultant for the Timex Jazz Shows, and wrote about jazz for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Post newspapers.

Jackie Paris

He won many jazz polls and awards, including those of Down Beat, Playboy, Swing Journal, and Metronome.

Jealkb

Their debut single Metronome hit number 1 on the indies Oricon chart and sold out the same day.

John Clifford Heed

It was after the Metronome article was written that Mr. Heed went with John Phillip Sousa's band as a soloist and arranger before contracting tuberculosis in the 1890s and dying in Newark, New Jersey on February 12, 1908.

Metronome IM

Movim (Official Pod) a distributed web-based social platform, which uses Metronome as backend.

New Jazz Conceptions

Although a critical success that gained positive reviews in Down Beat and Metronome magazines, New Jazz Conceptions was initially a financial failure, selling only 800 copies the first year.

Sandrew Metronome

Sandrew Metronome was the Nordic distributor for films by Warner Bros. and had acquired Nordic rights for Focus Features.

Sky Records

Sky Records was founded in 1975 by Günter Körber after he left Metronome Musik, the parent company of influential Krautrock/Kosmische label Brain Records.


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