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Jazzwise

Oct 01 2021
Magazine

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

News • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

John Coltrane A Love Supreme Live in Seattle 1965 set for October release

Jazz FM Award Nominations Announced

Editor’s Note

A previously unissued 1961 Blakey Tokyo live date released on LP & CD

Zoe Gilby, Alan Barnes and Dave O’Higgins swing to Scarborough festival

Ashley Henry and Soothsayers booked for new Woolwich Works jazz nights

Cherise, Liane Carroll, Julian Siegal and Jackson Mathod launch the Brighton Jazz Festival

Back in the Day: Brighton’s Chinese Jazz Club, 1960

Art Failure • Album sleeves they’d rather forget…

Benjamin Croft TAKES 5 • The keyboardist and composer chooses the quintet of albums he can’t live without

Davies, Edis and Shaw line up for inaugural Leyburn Jazz Festival

Nikki Iles hits the road… again!

Jazzmeia Horn, Tigran Hamasyan and many more for Enjoy Jazz

70 YEARS AGO – Shorty Rogers

Black String and Nguyên Lê booked for K-Music 2021

Nu Civilisation Orchestra tour What’s Going On

Peter Ind: 20/07/1928–20/08/2021

BRILLIANT • It was quite a climb, but worth the effort, when drummer John Stevens and fellow pioneers of the British New Wave were commanding the lofty heights of London’s legendary Little Theatre Club, which we revisit here. Revered saxophonist TREVOR WATTS regales CHRIS WELCH with more memories of life at the top when Chick Corea and Don Cherry hit town

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2021

The Gentleman of Rhythm calls time

Just for the krekht… • The story of Jewish and Yiddisher jazz in the UK is one of the great untold tales in the history of the music. Selwyn Harris investigates…

Music straight from the harp • Award-winning harpist-composer Brandee Younger is about to make her major label debut with the stunning Somewhere Different, released this month on Impulse! Peter Quinn talks to her about building upon the legacy laid by her heroines Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby

Let’s all return to bass… • Upcoming bass player-bandleader Ferg Ireland has just started doing proper gigs again after 18 months of livestreamed events. He tells Eddie Myer about the importance of interaction with an audience, as well as what’s up next

LITTLE GIANT Big Apple • Sixty years ago this September, saxophonist Tubby Hayes made history as the first English jazz soloist to officially perform in an American club. Hayes expert and biographer Simon Spillett tells the story of this one-man jazz invasion

Heavyweight champion • This September marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Miles Davis, yet the iconic trumpeter still casts a long shadow over the entire jazz world. It’s also 50 years since the release of Live-Evil, Davis’ genre-smashing live recording, made at yet another transitional point in his ever-evolving career. Stuart Nicholson examines his ongoing influence and the reasons why his magnetic pull remains so strong today

FUTURE THINKING • One of the UK’s most gifted and adventurous pianist/composers, Robert Mitchell reached his 50th birthday earlier this year and as part of the celebrations, he opens up to Kevin Le Gendre about his new True Think band; and on drawing on poetry, politics and a sense of unity to respond...


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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

News • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

John Coltrane A Love Supreme Live in Seattle 1965 set for October release

Jazz FM Award Nominations Announced

Editor’s Note

A previously unissued 1961 Blakey Tokyo live date released on LP & CD

Zoe Gilby, Alan Barnes and Dave O’Higgins swing to Scarborough festival

Ashley Henry and Soothsayers booked for new Woolwich Works jazz nights

Cherise, Liane Carroll, Julian Siegal and Jackson Mathod launch the Brighton Jazz Festival

Back in the Day: Brighton’s Chinese Jazz Club, 1960

Art Failure • Album sleeves they’d rather forget…

Benjamin Croft TAKES 5 • The keyboardist and composer chooses the quintet of albums he can’t live without

Davies, Edis and Shaw line up for inaugural Leyburn Jazz Festival

Nikki Iles hits the road… again!

Jazzmeia Horn, Tigran Hamasyan and many more for Enjoy Jazz

70 YEARS AGO – Shorty Rogers

Black String and Nguyên Lê booked for K-Music 2021

Nu Civilisation Orchestra tour What’s Going On

Peter Ind: 20/07/1928–20/08/2021

BRILLIANT • It was quite a climb, but worth the effort, when drummer John Stevens and fellow pioneers of the British New Wave were commanding the lofty heights of London’s legendary Little Theatre Club, which we revisit here. Revered saxophonist TREVOR WATTS regales CHRIS WELCH with more memories of life at the top when Chick Corea and Don Cherry hit town

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2021

The Gentleman of Rhythm calls time

Just for the krekht… • The story of Jewish and Yiddisher jazz in the UK is one of the great untold tales in the history of the music. Selwyn Harris investigates…

Music straight from the harp • Award-winning harpist-composer Brandee Younger is about to make her major label debut with the stunning Somewhere Different, released this month on Impulse! Peter Quinn talks to her about building upon the legacy laid by her heroines Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby

Let’s all return to bass… • Upcoming bass player-bandleader Ferg Ireland has just started doing proper gigs again after 18 months of livestreamed events. He tells Eddie Myer about the importance of interaction with an audience, as well as what’s up next

LITTLE GIANT Big Apple • Sixty years ago this September, saxophonist Tubby Hayes made history as the first English jazz soloist to officially perform in an American club. Hayes expert and biographer Simon Spillett tells the story of this one-man jazz invasion

Heavyweight champion • This September marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Miles Davis, yet the iconic trumpeter still casts a long shadow over the entire jazz world. It’s also 50 years since the release of Live-Evil, Davis’ genre-smashing live recording, made at yet another transitional point in his ever-evolving career. Stuart Nicholson examines his ongoing influence and the reasons why his magnetic pull remains so strong today

FUTURE THINKING • One of the UK’s most gifted and adventurous pianist/composers, Robert Mitchell reached his 50th birthday earlier this year and as part of the celebrations, he opens up to Kevin Le Gendre about his new True Think band; and on drawing on poetry, politics and a sense of unity to respond...


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