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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Jazzwise’s Val Wilmer cast away on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs

Blue Note Records celebrates 85th anniversary with new releases and an all-star touring Quintet

Editor’s Note

New LPs from Potter/Mehldau/Patitucci/Blade, Mark Lockheart and others star on Edition’s spring schedule

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

Trio HLK TAKES 5

Piano stars align for PizzaExpress’ Steinway 2-Piano Festival and Sounds Of Denmark mini-fest

60 YEARS AGO – Miles Davis

Cassie Kinoshi’s seed. celebrate International Women’s Day with big Barbican show

Next-Gen Scottish jazz stars line up for NU-AGE SOUNDS showcase tour

NEWS IN BRIEF

Charting the Jazz Message/March 2024

YE OLDE NATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVALS • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH remembers his wild days as a raver at the pioneering 1960s National Jazz Festivals at Richmond, when beatniks swigged jugs of cider while Trad and Modern jazz bands battled for supremacy

Chip Wickham and Amy Gadiaga head up Brick Lane Jazz Fest bill

PHILIPPE CARLES: 2/3/1941–14/10/2023

FIGHTING FOR A FEMALE FUTURE • This year’s International Women’s Day (8 March) will see female musicians continue to fight for equality in jazz. Nick Hasted visits Istanbul to discover how the international Jazz Camp for Girls education initiative is getting to the heart of the matter in a country not known for its liberalism

She’s stepping up! • From in-demand session player to a stand-out solo artist, Poppy Daniels mixes up post-bop with funk and fusion. Despite her effortless playing, the trumpeter’s confidence as a bandleader was hard-won, as Gail Tasker discovered when they spoke

There in a harp beat • Maria Christina Harper is one of a new generation of players raising the harp’s profile. Eddie Myer finds out how she’s building on the legacy of Ashby and Coltrane

REACH FOR THE SKY • Now well into his ninth decade, sax legend Charles Lloyd shows no sign of slowing down. With a new double album, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, about to be released, Stuart Nicholson talks to the great man – and his lifetime partner, manager and muse Dorothy Darr – and discovers a musician still brimming with energy and creativity

THE JOY OF SIX…

EMOTIONAL HEAVYWEIGHT • Rosie Frater-Taylor’s audacious blend of gritty jazz harmonies, heart-on-sleeve lyrics and fiery fretwork hits new highs on her new album, Featherweight. Andy Robson spoke to her about channelling her inner guitar hero and the challenges of being both fiercely feminine and emotionally vulnerable

The Wonder Years • Fifteen years into their life as one of the most consistently creative Britjazz bands, Empirical return with the expansive Wonder Is The Beginning – their debut for Whirlwind Recordings. Selwyn Harris spoke to the band’s bassist Tom Farmer about how the album marks the start of a new era for them as bandmates and friends

WORDS UP! • Stacey Kent has something of an affinity with literature. In this interview with the singer and her husband/bandmate Jim Tomlinson, Peter Quinn discovers more about Kent’s new album Summer Me, Winter Me and her friendship and collaboration with the Nobel and Booker Prize-winning...