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

Ron Carter, Angel Bat Dawid, Kurt Elling and Threadgill/Braxton double bill announced for EFG London Jazz Festival

New Miles Davis Bootleg Series 1983-85 triple album to be released

Editor’s Note

Parliamentary Jazz Award Winners 2022 announced

Alina Bzhezhinska makes her BBE label debut with Reflections album

B:JazzFest and Jazzlines Summer School bounce back in Brum

Cedar Walton Trio • Ironclad – Live At Yoshi’s Monarch Records

Matt Ridley TAKES 5 • The double bassist selects five of his favourite albums

Binker & Moses, Camilla George and JTQ booked for Ealing Jazz Festival

Yazz Ahmed, Theon Cross and more for Blue Note Re:imagined II

70 YEARS AGO Gerry Mulligan

BRILLIANT CORNERS • Jazzwise revisits the shrines and personalities that pepper the history of music. This month the Roskam, Brussels, Belgium is where MARTIN LONGLEY finds free jazz nirvana

Chelsea Carmichael and Emma Johnson line-up for Lancaster Jazz Festival

Charting the Jazz Message/August 2022

NEWS IN • BRIEF

Grachan Moncur III • (3/6/1937 – 3/6/2022)

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Formerly Christian Scott) for KOKO

EJN Beyond Europe Showcase • KEVIN LE GENDRE heads to Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina to witness unity and an explosion of creativity from the former Yugoslavian country

Live Wayne Shorter album set for release on Candid Records

Henry Franklin goes deep for Jazz Is Dead debut

DARK TALES OF SWEDISH SWING • SELWYN HARRIS examines a much-heralded 1976 documentary-style Swedish drama that gets to the heart of the matter of the jazz life

It’s a vision thing… • Drummer, composer and leader of the Vision Ahead band, Jonathan Barber won universal plaudits earlier this year with his debut album. Stuart Nicholson speaks to a young man with an eye very much on the future

First principles • Thirtysomething guitarist James Kitchman has been getting great notices for his Ubuntu debut album First Quartet. He explains all to Tony Benjamin

Beneath The Bass Line • Bassist Charles Mingus shook up the jazz world like few others, his maverick genius for composition matched by an imposing presence. As his extraordinary life and music is celebrated in his centenary year, Kevin Le Gendre assesses his legacy and speaks to contemporary bass stars Christian McBride and Boris Kozlov about his influence

Stronger Together • The rise of London eight-piece Kokoroko is indicative of the brave new jazz scene – success via tens of millions of streams and a viral video hit has seen this West African highlife and Afrobeat-fuelled jazz collective go on to play live shows at home and abroad and prime them as an unlikely UK supergroup. As their long-delayed debut album, Could We Be More, is released, Jane Cornwell spoke to trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Gray and percussionist Onome Edgeworth, to uncover the earthy roots of this band’s transcendent sound

BEBOP NIGHTS WHERE THE BUDDLEIA BLOOMED • The Sunset was a pioneering club on Soho’s Carnaby Street, founded by forward-thinking Jamaican Gus Leslie and providing the capital’s music lovers with the best in black sounds and jazz a full decade and more before the arrival of Swinging London. Val Wilmer digs into the memory banks to tell the...