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.

Jazzwise

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Valle and Correa for London Latin Jazz Fest 10th anniversary edition

National Jazz Archive launches first Jazz Hub with Gary Crosby Sextet concert in October

Editor’s Note

December Jazzwise Duke Ellington lington Special!

Mancio and Broadbent mark 10th anniversary with UK Tour

Nigel Price Organ Trio go back to basics for new album and epic tour

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

Val Wilmer photographs for new book and solo, Barbican and Tate exhibitions

Émile Parisien TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the albums he can’t live without

Logan Kane lays it down for Floor Plans with David Binney and Mark Turner

60 Years Ago – John Coltrane

HOT CLUB GENT & BAR LUME • Our resident globetrotter MARTIN LONGLEY visits a pair of venues in the city of Gent in Belgium

John Marshall: 28/08/1941 – 16/09/2023

NEWS IN • BRIEF

Doncaster Jazz Alumni to release 50 Years anniversary LP

Charting the Jazz Message/November 2023

WHEN THE WORLD COMES TO TOWN… • This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival brings a huge range of global stars to the capital. It also includes several large ensemble works and some bona fide jazz legends – Alyn Shipton spoke to its director Pelin Opcin to get the low down on the event’s panoramic vision of jazz today

NEW RELEASES FROM RUNE GRAMMOFON

Tucker’s up! • Aussie trio Brekky Boy are making waves with their off-kilter take on jazz. Ahead of their EFG London Jazz Festival debut Jane Cornwell chats to pianist Taylor Davis about the band’s humour-laden electro jazz-rock sound

Moving ahead by staying home • Pianist Eddie Gripper is touring his recent album Home, a critically-acclaimed debut that’s garnered comparisons with the greats. Peter Jones dogs his steps through the West Country and beyond

SONIC BOOM • Japanese piano sensation Hiromi, is the kind of innately gifted musician who comes along but once in a generation. Mentored by Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal, the one-time teenage prodigy has now become a master in her own right. Back with her Sonicwonder band and their thrilling debut recording, she speaks to Stuart Nicholson about her career and her upcoming EFG London Jazz Festival headline appearance

THIS IS WHERE I AM • Joshua Redman, one of contemporary jazz’s first-rank instrumentalists, has just released where are we, his first album featuring a vocalist, Gabrielle Cavassa. He tells Selwyn Harris about this new development in his stellar career that also marks his debut on the Blue Note label

RED SEA GOLD • Guitarist Rob Luft tells Peter Jones about his Arabic adventures during the pandemic and how they informed his latest album Dahab Days

BOPPING WITH REMNANTS OF THE RAJ • VAL WILMER tells the story of how former ragtimer Ellis Jackson took black music to Pakistan, met Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, and provides photographs from her historic collection

“For women to have that strength and power and still be seen as beautiful, soft and ‘feminine’, can be difficult. But Nina managed it!” • US singer Judi Jackson tells Brian Glasser about the 1964 Nina Simone LP that changed her life when she bought it as...