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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Hard-swinging Sunday session and DJ Sets complete Jazzwise’s 25th Anniversary Festival at Ronnie Scott’s

Gregory Porter to hit Sunday headline spot with more top names added to Love Supreme Jazz Fest line-up

Editors’ Note

Major Albert Ayler archive live set for RSD release

Band on the Wall reopens after major refit with a busy spring programme

Art Failure

The Verdict Jazz Club reopens for 10th Anniversary

Michael Janisch

Trish Clowes returns with A View with a Room on Greenleaf Music

Cleveland Watkiss opens The Great Jamaican Songbook

85 YEARS AGO-Coleman Hawkins

BRILLIANT • Our intrepid European jazz explorer Martin Longley delves into the storied history one of Germany’s top jazz spots, The Loft in Cologne Photograph: Gerhard Richter (Günter ‘Baby’ Sommer & the Lucaciu brothers at The Loft, 10 January 2022)

David Fraser: 25/11/1951 – 09/02/2022

Charting the Jazz Message/April 2022

Chasin' the Byrd, Diggin' the Duke! • So, what did you do during the pandemic, dad? The Guardian’s chief pop/rock critic, Alexis Petridis, decided to use the time afforded by lockdown to take a deep dive into jazz after being introduced to the music by the late John Cumming during the 2008 London Jazz Festival. Here he writes about his 'year of magical listening'

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PLAYING THROUGH THE CHANGES • As Jazzwise celebrates its 25th anniversary Stuart Nicholson assesses the turbulent backdrop – both in the music industry, and the wider world – above and beyond which the magazine has documented jazz’s unstoppable evolution

EUROPEAN FESTIVAL GUIDE 2022

Blessed indeed is the peaceful placemaker • Joy Ellis’ newly-released album Peaceful Place is the first purely instrumental work from the talented pianist composer-singer. And, as Tony Benjamin finds out, it’s the one she’s been waiting to make her entire career

Back to the start • Ten years on from its release, trumpeter Marquis Hill is revisiting his debut album. Selwyn Harris discovers that this is no mere exercise in nostalgia

AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY • As Jazzwise celebrates its 25th anniversary, legendary British saxophonist Courtney Pine looks back on a career packed with countless musical and personal milestones, which – as he tells Stuart Nicholson – includes revisiting his chart-topping 1986 debut album Journey to the Urge Within for a special appearance at Ronnie Scott’s…

Claire vision • Fortunately for her army of fans, singer Claire Martin’s stellar career was not held back by Covid. In fact, it’s been going from strength to strength – with a new album in the can, Peter Quinn wants to know more

THE JOY RIDER • As a founding member of Grammy Award-winning groove-crew Snarky Puppy, keyboardist Bill Laurance has come a long way from his Hackney birthplace. Set to embark on a dizzying schedule of live dates, new projects and recordings, he tells John Fordham that all that he does is driven by joy

MULTIVERSE Mindset • Alto saxophonist, bandleader, musical thinker, composer… Cassie Kinoshi is a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist whose work with outfits such as her Mercury Prize nominated band seed., and collaborative groups KOKOROKO and Nérija,...