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.

Dave Okumu, Take Five talents and venue upgrades for EFG London Jazz Festival shows

Mick, Rahman and Edis are among names for this year’s Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music

Colectiva and Eliane Correa give Brighton Jazz Fest a Latin edge

Editor’s Note

Utter Oblivion! Auger’s entire Express back catalogue to be released on CD and LP

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

FUTURE MOVERS • Highlighting serious talent now bubbling under the radar…

BACK IN THE DAY…

Kyle Eastwood TAKES 5 • The bassist and composer says of these choices: “It’s almost impossible to pick just five albums out of a long list of favourites, but here goes. I've tried to pick a little sample of some of my favourite styles of music.”

Elaine Delmar and Liane Carroll booked for Piano Smithfield’s LJF gigs

65 YEARS AGO – Art Blakey

COOK’S FERRY INN, EDMONTON • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH takes the ferry ‘cross the river Lea to find traces of the once-thriving North London jazz venue where fans and celebrities flocked in the 1940s and 1950s to see the young kings of Glam Trad

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2023

Musical YOUTH • The Royal Academy of Music’s Junior Jazz Course has been a crucial jazz entry point for countless young musicians. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Mike Flynn speaks to the course leaders Nick Smart and Gareth Lockrane

An eclectic storm • Young Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov is a master synthesist, making cross-cultural musical connections and winning admirers across the globe. Selwyn Harris spoke to this singular talent

Voyage of redisdcovery • Flautist and saxophonist Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne has gone back to the late 1960s/early 70s and giants like Wayne Shorter and Clifford Jordan for inspiration on his latest album. It’s a brave decision, one which Jo Frost applauds

HEART STRINGS • Brazilian composer Ivan Lins is back with a new and sumptuous symphonic album. Stuart Nicholson finds out more about this profoundly political artist whose career was forged in the turmoil of Brazil’s military dictatorship

DIGGIN’ THE LIGHT FANTASTIC • Mancunian trumpeter Matthew Halsall has always had a Zen-like approach to his music, with its hidden depths bubbling beneath the calm surface – a style that’s also become the hallmark of his successful Gondwana label too. Back with An Ever Changing View, his most lustrous album to date, and a headline show at the Royal Albert Hall, Nick Hasted spoke to this multi-faceted auteur to find out more

SISTERHOOD OF SOUND • Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick have formed a unique musical partnership over the past eight years, operating as a duo on the ‘free but with parameters’ principle. Impressed by the results, Andy Robson wants to know more

ACCENT ON AFRICA • Singer-composer Somi Kakoma won pludits for her 2022 album Zenzile, a magnificently rich and heartfelt homage to Africa’s First Lady of Song, Miriam Makeba. Kevin Whitlock speaks to her about this remarkable tribute to an extraordinary woman

AN AUDIENCE WITH BETTER CARTER the ‘lost interview’ • Thirty-five years ago, a young, up-and-coming writer and jazz pianist named Alex Webb managed to grab an interview with the great singer Betty Carter while she was playing a series of gigs at Ronnie Scott’s. An...