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

Dhafer Youssef, James Brandon Lewis, Jacqui Dankworth and more add their lustre to Love Supreme's 2024 line-up

Tim Garland celebrates 20 years of Lighthouse Trio with new double album and live dates tour

Free stages, family events and Hotel Du Vin nights complete Cheltenham line-up

Emma Rawicz Jazz Orchestra, Norma Winstone and Art Themen plus new talent announced for Swanage Jazz Festival 2024

Chaka Khan’s Meltdown brings Nu Civilisation, Speakers Corner and Balimaya Project and more to London's Southbank Centre

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

THEO CROKER TAKES 5 • The trumpeter selects the five albums he can’t live without

John Surman marks 80th with new album and UK live dates

75 YEARS AGO – Lennie Tristano

Bouncing down to jazzed-up Brick Lane • Peter Jones goes behind the scenes of East London’s burgeoning new-talent focused jazz weekender

Skylla, Joe Armon-Jones and Tomorrow’s Warriors Take Over for Jazz Stroud Fest

Charting the Jazz Message/May 2024

NEWS IN BRIEF

SSBB: Reinventing the big band with visuals, interactivity and crowdfunding

CHELTENHAM JAZZ CLUB HITS 40 • TONY BENJAMIN visits the storied volunteer-run West of England venue as it enters its fifth decade

A Rite of Spring • Ahead of this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Alyn Shipton caught up with returning festival director Ian George and discovers the event’s breadth and depth has produced another punchy programme

Music For Astral Travellers • Saxophonist/clarinettist Robe Cope is on a journey to merge traditional musical storytelling with his avant-garde influences. Tom Spargo jumps on board and goes along for the ride

Shared Spaces • New electronica-jazz trio, Un.procedure, whose lineup includes Cassie Kinoshi, are set to play this month’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Gail Tasker connects the dots of their untypical creative process ahead of their newlycommissioned improv-heavy festival premiere

The REAWAKENING OF Dee Dee • A 'Grand Dame' of vocal jazz, Dee Dee Bridgewater has had a four-decade career spanning music and theatre in Europe and America. Ahead of her headline Cheltenham Jazz Festival appearance, Stuart Nicholson spoke to her and discovers her civil rights spirit and musical mojo are back with a vengeance

CHELTENHAM’S FEMALE FRONTLINE

“You have to keep the audience engaged” • Once a rising star, now an elder statesman, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Courtney Pine turns 60 this year. Far from resting on his laurels, he’s out touring again with a headline show at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and his playing is hitting new highs. Ammar Kalia caught up with the saxophonist to look back at his extraordinary career and discovers his thirst for musical and spiritual knowledge remains undimmed

The Perfect Partnership • A generation-spanning hookup between revered jazz vocalist, Norma Winstone, and her prodigiously gifted musical partner, pianist Kit Downes, are set to unite for a debut Cheltenham collaboration, which will also be released as a new album, Outpost of Dreams, on ECM in July. Alyn Shipton spoke to the dynamic duo

TURNING POINT • Snarky Puppy bassist and bandleader Michael League tells Brian Glasser how alt-pop group XTC’s album Apple Venus Volume 1...