Jazzwise

Welcome to the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly. Jazzwise has been at the heart of the global jazz scene since the magazine’s launch in 1997, changing the way jazz publications look and think for the last two decades, with a stunning editorial and design package that reaches out worldwide to both the new jazz audience and established fans – qualities that have led to it winning Jazz Publication of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards and the Jazz FM Awards.

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Shear Brass celebrate the hard swinging legacy of Sir George Shearing

Ian Shaw gets soulful with Soho-inspired new album Greek Street Friday

Editor’s Note

Winners announced for the 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Awards

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

Jo Harrop and Immy Churchill aim to get Piano Smithfield swinging

Rosie Frater-Taylor TAKES 5 • The singer/guitarist selects the five albums she can’t live without…

Deluxe anthologised Impulse! vinyl box set for autumn release

50 YEARS AGO

New Jazz Central Festival to combine mentoring with live performances

Dankworth, Kofi and Edis to light up Leyburn Jazz Festival

NEWS IN • BRIEF

Mo Foster: 22/12/1944 – 03/07/2023

Barry Martyn: 23/02/1941 – 17/07/2023

Tony Bennett: 03/08/1926 - 21/07/2023

Peggy’s Skylight celebrates fifth anniversary

Charting the Jazz Message/September 2023

A LIFE-CHANGING JAZZ ENCOUNTER IN LONDON • How Lester Young’s brother, a random kindness, and a bullet hole in a window changed a young woman’s life at the ATV Studios in North London. VAL WILMER tells the story and supplies the pictures

As good as her word… • Poet and recording artist Aja Monet is making waves far outside the ‘spoken word circuit’, winning over lovers of progressive jazz with her improvised narratives around themes of resistance and love. Jane Cornwell is all ears…

Liebe Grüße aus Berlin! • Acclaimed saxophonist Joshua Jaswon has followed in several other British jazz musicians' footsteps and decamped to Berlin, where his career is flourishing. Alyn Shipton gets the lowdown

MR GONE, NOT FORGOTTEN • Wayne Shorter stands among the true giants of jazz – as bandleader player, composer, collaborator and founding member of Weather Report, he shaped the music and all those he worked with. This autumn sees a star-studded concert of his symphonic music at the EFG London Jazz Festival, planned as part of his 90th birthday celebrations; sadly his death in March means that he will never see it. But late last year, renowned writer-photographer Michael Jackson spoke to Shorter at length, resulting in one of the great saxophonist’s last ever interviews, which we present exclusively here

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON ON THE SYMPHONIC MUSIC OF WAYNE SHORTER

TURNING POINT • Swiss-Albanian singer/composer Elina Duni tells Brian Glasser about the 1960s Sheila Jordan album that kick started her own journey into jazz

CHROMA ZONAL MANOEUVRES • Although still just 21 years of age, Emma Rawicz’s strikingly mature playing has seen her acquire a serious following, as well as a major label deal with Germany’s ACT Music. As Chroma, her first album for the imprint is released, Andy Robson speaks to the saxophonist about how she’s channelling multicolored sounds and experiences into her thrillingly progressive music

ANALOGUE ACES COME UP TRUMPS! • A gloriously co-operative venture, the Canadian Jazz Collective have been delighting audiences across Europe and their homeland with their sizzling live shows and a splendid debut album. Kevin Whitlock speaks to the three principals

LET POLAND BE POLAND! • Jazz was once banned in Poland but...