DownBeat—which calls itself the world’s oldest jazz magazine—turns 75 this year. And the big anniversary has stirred memories at DownBeat’s main office in Elmhurst, a place where photos of jazz greats line the walls, where mail crates overflow with constantly arriving CDs and where a phone call could be anyone from Tony Bennett to Diana Krall.

The venerable jazz publication celebrates the three-quarter-century mark with the publication of “DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews. A 75th Anniversary Anthology,” due in October.

Pretty awesome article. Working on pulling this book together has been my life for the past month. It was pretty awesome to hear some of these stories and to have 70+ years of American music history at my fingertips when I was still working in the office.