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

Jazz in the Round, New Generation Jazz Stage and much more added to 2022’s Love Supreme programme

Shakti are back! The great Indo-jazz supergroup marks 50th anniversary with 2023 tour and brand-new album

Editor’s Note

Charles Lloyd returns with Trio of Trios

The Bad Plus Four: Monder and Speed join King and Reid for new album and tour

Brecon Jazz Fest bounces back in full

Art Failure • Andy Bey

Names for Parliamentary Jazz Awards Announced

Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell TAKES 5 PLUS!! • The vocal/piano duo select the five albums, and one more for luck, that have inspired them the most…

Pharoah Sanders and KOKOROKO added to We Out Here headliners

Partikel power-up with energised 10th anniversary album

80 YEARS AGO Jay McShann

BRILLIANT CORNERS • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH remembers one of the happier haunts of his youth, The King Alfred, a south London alehouse where modern jazz idols Don Rendell, Graham Bond, Joe Harriott and Phil Seamen once reigned… and where local hero Henry Cooper knocked down Cassius Clay – sorta, kinda!

Charting the Jazz Message/July 2022 • The Jazzwise Chart

NEWS IN BRIEF

Arun Ghosh shines with ‘The Canticle of the Sun’ • Tony Benjamin dons his shades to examine the clarinettist’s ambitious new work

Victor Schonfield: 19/12/1940 – 03/05/2022

Bob Blizzard 31/05/1950 - 05/05/2022

Toots 100 – portraits of a harmonica hero • Kevin Le Gendre is bowled over by a photography exhibition of the tootin’ Belgian legend

Scarborough Jazz Fest’s back with Norma Winstone, Dennis Rollins and more

This lady's learning to fly • Soul-jazz diva Lady Blackbird’s 2021 debut album Black Acid Soul won her plaudits and friends all across the world. But, as Jane Cornwell discovers, there’s plenty more to come

I'm a Bebop believer… • Up-and-coming pianist Alex Bryson has been making a name for himself by resolutely following his own path. Peter Vacher met him and discovered a unique talent determined to do things his way

Dreaming in Threes • Free-spirited and firing on all cylinders, Santa Barbara-based master saxophonist Charles Lloyd returns with Trios: Chapel, the first of three spiritual Trio albums, this one featuring guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan. Ahead of its release and his headline performance at this month’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, he spoke to Stuart Nicholson about the deep relationships behind this triptych of works

NATURE BOY • Part of the explosion of new talent coming out of Scotland right now, pianist Fergus McCreadie’s alchemical touch effortlessly connects jazz to folk in his own Trio as well as firing up the keys in bands corto.alto and Strata. He spoke to Hugh Morris about how nature and the openness of the Scottish scene have enabled him to forge his own 'sanctuary of sound'

Georgia on our minds • An acclaimed debut album, high profile gigs… it’s all happening right now for Scottish singer-songwriter Georgia Cécile. Peter Quinn caught up with her

SIX STRINGS TO HER BOW • With a pair of acclaimed new albums in the bag, session and live work booked well into the future, and awards coming in, things are looking good for Mary Halvorson. But there’s no...