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

News

Duke’s ‘The Queen’s Suite’ for Platinum Jubilee show

No sleep till Hammersmith: Pat Metheny Side-Eye for sole UK date

Editor’s Note

Time for one more? Jazz stars align for John Cumming celebration at Barbican among busy summer jazz nights

Blue Note Records launches its new Blue Note Africa imprint with Nduduzo Makhathini’s latest ‘In the Spirit of Ntu’

Art Failure

Atlanticus quartet debut album and tour dates

Emma Rawicz TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the five albums she can’t live without

Byron Wallen curates inaugural Coronet Theatre Jazz Festival

Don Ellis’ Hindustani Jazz Sextet heads new series of archival and unreleased live albums

65 YEARS AGO

BRILLIANT • Jazzwise revisits the shrines and personalities that pepper the history of music. THIS MONTH: LEONARD FEATHER, JOE DARENSBOURG AND ME, BY PETER VACHER. Photos from the Peter Vacher Collection

Charting the Jazz Message/June 2022

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

Charnett Moffett: 10/6/1967 – 11/4/2022

LOW DOWN’S A JAZZ MOVIE HIGH • Pianist Joe Albany is one of jazz’s lesserknown figures, yet he has been the subject of a biopic, 2013’s Low Down. Despite Albany’s relative obscurity, both the movie and its subject are worthy of wider exposure, argues SELWYN HARRIS

Afro Blue Beats • London duo Blue Lab Beats have been making waves online. Now, with a freshly-signed contract with Blue Note in the bag, it’s time for them to go the full tsunami, says Hugh Morris

Luma-naissance • Inspired by David Bowie’s dark jazz-influenced swansong Blackstar and the New York scene from which it grew, keyboardist Emily Francis’ new trio album Luma is a thing of rare beauty. She spoke to Nick Hasted about its birth

SMOKE ON THE WATER • Despite turning 80 in January, John McLaughlin shows no sign of slowing down - with the release of the superb Montreux Years box set and ahead of four UK concerts, he opens up to Stuart Nicholson about his many fiery performances at the legendary festival

ROOTS & REBIRTH: JAZZ FROM THE RAINBOW NATION • South Africa’s contribution to jazz remains one of the music’s great untold stories. As the Blue Note Africa imprint is launched this month, Stuart Nicholson looks at the birth of the country’s jazz scene and its greatest innovator, the late saxophonist, Kippie Moeketsi

MAKER’S MARC • Under his nom de plume Ben Marc, composer-bassist Neil Charles is causing quite a stir with new album Glass Effect. Kevin Le Gendre meets a categorybusting musician and producer whose time has arrived

Show Me The Horizon • Saxophonist-composer Trish Clowes has always sought to connect her music with the wider world. And with her new album A View With A Room, she’s succeeded brilliantly, believes Andy Robson…

TURNING POINT • US jazz saxophonist Mark Turner tells Brian Glasser how when he first heard Joe Henderson’s 1966 masterpiece, Inner Urge, aged 16, it changed everything for him

Trish Clowes

Albums: New Releases • The UK’s most definitive review section – Jazz and beyond

Album Interview

Emily Francis Trio

Mary Halvorson

CD Shortcuts: New Releases

John Coltrane

Albums: Reissues/Archive

Norah Jones

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