DownBeat Hall of Fame

DownBeat Hall of Fame

Readers Poll ("R")
Critics Poll ("C")
Veterans Committee ("V")

Readers Poll
Louis Armstrong (R 1952)
Glenn Miller (R 1953)
Stan Kenton (R 1954)
Charlie Parker (R 1955)
Duke Ellington (R 1956)
Benny Goodman (R 1957)
Count Basie (R 1958)
Lester Young (R 1959)
Dizzy Gillespie (R 1960)
Billie Holiday (R 1961)
Miles Davis (R 1962)
Thelonious Monk (R 1963)
Eric Dolphy (R 1964)
John Coltrane (R 1965)
Bud Powell (R 1966)
Billy Strayhorn (R 1967)
Wes Montgomery (R 1968)
Ornette Coleman (R 1969)
Jimi Hendrix (R 1970)
Charles Mingus (R 1971)
Gene Krupa (R 1972)
Sonny Rollins (R 1973)
Buddy Rich (R 1974)
Cannonball Adderley (R1975)
Woody Herman (R 1976)
Paul Desmond (R 1977)
Joe Venuti (R 1978)
Ella Fitzgerald (R 1979)
Dexter Gordon (R 1980)
Art Blakey (R 1981)
Art Pepper (R 1982)
Stéphane Grappelli (R 1983)
Oscar Peterson (R 1984)
Sarah Vaughan (R 1985)
Stan Getz (R 1986)
Lionel Hampton (R 1987)
Jaco Pastorius (R 1988)
Woody Shaw (R 1989)
Red Rodney (R 1990)
Lee Morgan (R 1991)
Maynard Ferguson (R 1992)
Gerry Mulligan (R 1993)
Dave Brubeck (R 1994)
J.J. Johnson (R 1995)
Horace Silver (R 1996)
Nat “King” Cole (R 1997)
Frank Sinatra (R 1998)
Milt Jackson (R 1999)
Clark Terry (R 2000)
Joe Henderson (R 2001)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (R 2002)
Ray Brown (R 2003)
McCoy Tyner (R 2004)
Herbie Hancock (R 2005)
Jimmy Smith (R 2006)
Michael Brecker (R 2007)
Keith Jarrett (R 2008)
Freddie Hubbard (R 2009)
Chick Corea (R 2010)
Ahmad Jamal (R 2011)
Ron Carter (R 2012)
Pat Metheny (R 2013)
B.B. King (R 2014)
Tony Bennett (R 2015)
Phil Woods (R 2016)
Wynton Marsalis (R 2017)

Critics Poll
Coleman Hawkins (C 1961)
Bix Beiderbecke (C 1962)
Jelly Roll Morton (C 1963)
Art Tatum (C 1964)
Earl Hines (C 1965)
Charlie Christian (C 1966)
Bessie Smith (C 1967)
Sidney Bechet (C 1968)
Fats Waller (C 1968)
Pee Wee Russell (C 1969)
Jack Teagarden (C 1969)
Johnny Hodges (C 1970)
Roy Eldridge (C 1971)
Django Reinhardt (C 1971)
Clifford Brown (C 1972)
Fletcher Henderson (C 1973)
Ben Webster (C 1974)
Cecil Taylor (C 1975)
Joe “King” Oliver (C 1976)
Benny Carter (C 1977)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (C 1978)
Lennie Tristano (C 1979)
Max Roach (C 1980)
Bill Evans (C 1981)
Fats Navarro (C 1982)
Albert Ayler (C 1983)
Sun Ra (C 1984)
Zoot Sims (C 1985)
Gil Evans (C 1986)
Johnny Dodds (C 1987)
Thad Jones (C 1987)
Teddy Wilson (C 1987)
Kenny Clarke (C 1988)
Chet Baker (C 1989)
Mary Lou Williams (C 1990)
John Carter (C 1991)
James P. Johnson (C 1992)
Ed Blackwell (C 1993)
Frank Zappa (C 1994)
Julius Hemphill (C 1995)
Artie Shaw (C 1996)
Tony Williams (C 1997)
Elvin Jones (C 1998)
Betty Carter (C 1999)
Lester Bowie (C 2000)
Milt Hinton (C 2001)
John Lewis (C 2002)
Wayne Shorter (C 2003)
Roy Haynes (C 2004)
Steve Lacy (C 2005)
Jackie McLean (C 2006)
Andrew Hill (C 2007)
Joe Zawinul (C 2008)
Hank Jones (C 2009)
Muhal Richard Abrams (C 2010)
Abbey Lincoln (C 2011)
Paul Motian (C 2012)
Charlie Haden (C 2013)
Jim Hall (C 2014)
Lee Konitz (C 2015)
Randy Weston (C 2016)
Don Cherry (C 2017)

Veterans Committee
Jimmy Blanton (V 2008)
Harry Carney (V 2008)
Erroll Garner (V 2008)
Jo Jones (V 2008)
Jimmie Lunceford (V 2008)
Tadd Dameron (V 2009)
Oscar Pettiford (V 2009)
Baby Dodds (V 2010)
Billy Eckstine (V 2010)
Philly Joe Jones (V 2010)
Chick Webb (V 2010)
Paul Chambers (V 2011)
Gene Ammons (V 2012)
Sonny Stitt (V 2012)
Robert Johnson (V 2013)
Bing Crosby (V 2014)
Dinah Washington (V 2014)
Muddy Waters (V 2015)
Hoagy Carmichael (V 2016)
Eubie Blake (V 2017)
George Gershwin (V 2017)
Herbie Nichols (V 2017)