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

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PizzaExpress Live packs in festival 50

Mark Kavuma goes big for Banger Factory Records launch

Jazz FM Awards Nominees announced

Marsden Jazz Festival to mark its 30th year against the odds

Editor’s Note

Brotherhood of Breath return for London dates and workshops

Laura Jurd jumps back in Friendly manner

Jean Toussaint salutes his Sisters, Brothers and Others on UK tour

Art Failure

Tommy Crane TAKES 5 • The US drummer selects the five albums he can’t live without

Jazz re:freshed Weekly bounces to Brick Lane

Pine/Rahman and Makhathini turn out for Turner Sims autumn line-up

70 YEARS AGO – Annie Ross

MILES DAVIS THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED 1982-1985: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 7

BRILLIANT • This month we go off the beaten track and visit the Women’s Press Club, in London WC2.

Sun-Mi Hong drums up for K-Music’s return

NEWS IN BRIEF

Joey DeFrancesco: 10/04/1971 – 25/08/2022

Jaimie Branch 17/06/1983 – 22/08/2022

Creed Taylor: 13/5/1929 - 23/8/2022

Respected discographer and writer Bob Weir dies age 82

A Blue Hallelujah • As Blue Note Records releases the multi-artist tribute Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, Stuart Nicholson examines the jazz side of the legendary singer-songwriter’s legacy

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2022

BILL EVANS’ ‘AUTUMN LEAVES’ • Brian Priestley homes in on the groundbreaking bass work of the late Scott LaFaro on this pivotal Bill Evans track from 1959’s Portrait In Jazz

Murphy’s Lore • Composer-saxophonist Olivia Murphy’s latest album Moonrise is a collection of songs which ventures into a fantastical dreamworld of one night's sleep. Intrigued by the music and the premise, Andy Robson spoke to her to find out more

Floating Point • Oded Tzur is no ordinary saxophonist – having learned his craft from a Hindustani flute master, he’s long taken a different path from his contemporaries. With his second, ECM album Isabela about to make waves, John Fordham spoke to him about his inspirations and ambitions

Straight from the Harp • As a teenage girl in 1980s Ukraine, Alina Bzhezhinska loved nothing more than compiling her favourite music onto cassettes, before she discovered jazz, the sonic riches of the harp and the music of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. For her anticipated second album, Reflections, the harpist has revived this curatorial approach much-and drawn together her own personal universe of sounds. Jane Cornwell tunes in…

A NEW POINT OF ENTRY • German pianist-composer Julia Hülsmann is back, with a brand-new album on ECM called The Next Door. Stuart Nicholson believes it marks the next, elevated, stage of this talented musician’s career…

TRIO FASCINATION • Following a soujourn working solo, pianist-composer Andrew McCormack is returning to the trio format with a brand-new album, Terra Firma. Selwyn Harris meets a musician, back home again in the UK on a firm footing, and moving resolutely forward

SWINGING Between tHe RAINDROPS • Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen always had an ambivalent attitude to jazz. On the one hand,...