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

Final countdown to the EFG London Jazz Festival begins…

Unreleased 1975 concert from UK jazz pioneer Collier gets vinyl and CD outing

Get your FREE Jazzland 25th anniversary compilation CD with the next issue of Jazzwise!

Late Night Jazz Returns to the Elgar Room at RAH

Editor’s Note

WIN a GruvGear Cymbal case and the Snare case!

Jazz Fest Berlin links with New York, Sao Paulo and Cairo for a novel multi-platform event

BACK IN THE DAY: Five Bob Fireworks

Art Failure • Album sleeves they’d rather forget…

TAKES 5 • “I consider these a solid ‘bunch of fives’ knocking out a whole heap of my other favourites from the personal record box. Looking back, I think all five were significant steps along my own personal musical journey. Here they are in no particular order…”

Ari Hoenig Trio is among the musical highlights at JazzLeeds’ autumn season

65 YEARS AGO Horace Silver

Chelsea Carmichael releases debut The River Doesn’t Like Strangers

WorldService Project and Roller Trio rock out on autumn tour

Anthony Wood: 07/06/1948 – 15/09/2021

Trevor Watts flies into the Eternal Triangle for new trio

Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis: 21/04/1941 – 23/09/2021

George Wein: 03/10/1925 – 13/09/2021

Dr Lonnie Smith: 03/07/1942 – 28/09/2021

NEW HIGH QUALITY JAZZ FROM GEARBOX RECORDS

Charting the Jazz Message/November 2021

BRILLIANT CORNERS • It was drummers’ heaven! VAL WILMER recalls the legendary Professional Percussion Center at 832 Eight Avenue in New York City. Photo and advert by Val Wilmer from her personal archive

This one’s got legs… • Daniel Spicer looks back at the late Keith Tippett’s innovative Centipede, a vast ensemble of even vaster ambition whose extraordinary double album Septober Energy was released half a century ago this month

LONDON CALLING • As excitement builds ahead of its live return, Alyn Shipton speaks to LJF director Pelin Opcin about this year’s event

Compose me a rainbow • The ability to ‘see music in colour’ or ‘see colour in sound’ has a long history among performers and composers. Hugh Morris meets young saxophonist Emma Rawicz, the latest in a distinguished line of jazz synaesthetes

Groove runners in bloom • Bristol-based improv duo Run Logan Run have just released a new album and with collaborations and gigs planned, are raring to go. Tony Benjamin spoke to them

THIS IS NOT AMERICA? • Yazz Ahmed is not only one of the leading lights of the new generation of UK jazz stars, she is also an important figure in a more global jazz movement – one that looks not just to the USA for its inspiration, but to other countries, indigenous musics and other personal stories. Ahead of a major appearance at November’s EFG London Jazz Festival, Stuart Nicholson spoke to the British-Bahraini trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer

THE ART & CRAFT OF SONG • Two of the most critically acclaimed musicians from these shores, singer Cleveland Watkiss and pianist Django Bates, are about to collaborate, performing a duo concert as part of this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival. Kevin Le Gendre discovers how this meeting came about, and the strands that link these venerable musicians

YOUNG KING COLE • Since winning the 2018 BBC...