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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Cheltenham Jazz Fest back with a bang: Westbrook, Porter, Pascoal, Bartz and beyond for 2022 line-up • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

Anthony Joseph, Jasper Høiby and Marquis Hill all added to bill of Jazzwise 25th Anniversary Festival

Due credit: Courtney Pine goes global with fortnightly jazz podcast

Editor’s Note

Exclusive 15-track Ubuntu Music CD with April’s Jazzwise!

Brazilian titan Hermeto Pascoal to visit UK for farewell tour with NYJO

Mingus Live at Ronnie Scott’s and Ornette double sets get spring releases

BACK IN THE DAY: OK KEN

Art Failure • Album sleeves they’d rather forget…

Ruth Goller TAKES 5 • The bassist and singer selects the five albums she can’t live without

Mehldau jumps back with prog-heavy Jacob’s Ladder

Grand slam: Steinway 2-Piano Fest’s back at Pizza Express!

65 YEARS AGO Sonny Rollins - Way Out West

Top Canadian artists assemble for the 2022 Jazzahead showcase programme in Bremen

Nikki Yeoh joins Guildhall faculty plus Big Band and Jazz Orcheatra concerts

McLaughlin’s Montreux Years 1978-2016 gets debut vinyl (and new CD) release

Eight six-stringers are go for London Two-Guitars Fest

Ruth Goller takes her Skylla out on tour

Charting the Jazz Message/March 2022

WHO’S THAT GIRL?

In Common release star-studded third album on Whirlwind

Fred Van Hove: 19/02/1937 – 13/01/2022

Your MPS – Musik Produktion Schwarzwald – covermount CD

Ripping yarns • On the evidence of her brilliant debut album Friends With Monsters Nishla Smith is a weaver of stories as much as she is a singer-composer. Intrigued, Peter Quinn wants to hear the whole story…

Red sky at Kite… • … leftfield jazzer’s delight! Nick Hasted is blown away by Norwegian group Red Kite’s eclectic influences, sheer power, and most recent album Apophenian Bliss

BACK TO LIFE • South London soul-jazz hero Omar Lye-Fook is a household name, thanks to his timelessly groovy hit ‘There’s Nothing Like This’, yet he’s also been brewing up a hip, jazz-infused alter ego with UK horn heavies Quentin Collins and Brandon Allen for the last decade. Better known as Omar & QCBA they recorded a post-lockdown album last year – the collective's first ever live LP, now released on Ubuntu Music – and as Jane Cornwell discovers, it proved to be a pivotal moment for all of them

Reflected Light • Clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh exploded on to the UK and international jazz scene in the early 2010s and his ‘conceived in Calcutta, bred in Bolton, matured in Manchester’ self-description summed up his myriad cultural references. Kevin Le Gendre spoke to him about his new meditative lockdown-conceived double album, Seclused In Light, which weaves a highly personal tapestry of sounds

Shooting star • A big tarot fan, Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana identifies with the romanticallyinclined Empress card. Hugh Morris, impressed with her latest album 12 Stars, which marks her debut for the Blue Note label, thinks she might be on to something…

ONE IN A VERMILLION • One of the most compelling British pianists to emerge since his mentor, the late great John Taylor, Kit Downes has just released his third album, Vermillion, for Germany’s...