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 Strands, club programme and 'free stage' shows complete EFG London Jazz Festival 30th birthday line-up

Holy Ghost! Major Albert Ayler biography out in November

Phoenix-like, Lakecia Benjamin signs to Whirlwind Recordings

Editor’s Note

Hermeto Pascoal to headline Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

NEWS ● IN BRIEF

Let Spin hit 10 with Thick As Thieves

Elvin Jones Quartet’s legendary 1967 concerts get Blue Note release

Chick Corea • The Leprechaun Polydor

Emma-Jean Thackray TAKES 5 • The trumpeter and producer selects the five albums she can’t live without

Jazzfest Berlin 2022 bounces back to real life post-pandemic

45 YEARS AGO – Keith Jarrett’s My Song

BRILLIANT CORNERS • This month, PETER VACHER shares his very personal memories of the legendary club La Cigale in Paris. Photos from the Peter Vacher Collection

INTAKT RECORDS WWW.INTAKTREC.CH • Distribution Great Britain: Shellshock Distribution / intaktrec.bandcamp.com

Pharoah Sanders: 13/10/40-24/09/2022

Ramsey Lewis: 27/05/1935 – 12/09/2022

Trevor Tomkins: 12/05/1941 – 09/09/2022 • Bassist Dave Green pays tribute to his dear friend and longstanding rhythm section partner

Charting the Jazz Message/November 2022

BEYOND BORDERS • The EFG London Jazz Festival returns this month with a spring in its step to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Alyn Shipton finds its director, Pelin Opcin, anticipating 10 days and nights of exciting, genre-busting music

Conversations with myself • Norwegian pianist Espen Berg is out on the road, promoting his new album. Stuart Nicholson caught up with him and found an artist energised by improvising, alone, in front of audiences now that the Covid-19 pandemic has eased

Township Brotherhood • Jane Cornwell speaks to Siyabonga Mthembu, vocalist and leader of the South African collective The Brother Moves On

THE ART OF SOUND AND VISION • American composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill is a true giant of post-war jazz, marrying poetry and writing with music to create a unique vision; and as a founding member of Chicago’s AACM he’s been in the vanguard of progressive music for the past six decades. Ahead of a major headline show uniting the Chicago and London scenes at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, Kevin Le Gendre spoke to him

CHICAGO X LONDON: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

BREAKING GOOD • Having flipped the concept of the piano trio on its head in the early 2000s, The Bad Plus have weathered the political and personal storms of the last two decades, to re-emerge as an amped-up quartet with guitarist Ben Monder and saxophonist Chris Speed joining founding drummer Dave King and bassist Reid Anderson. Ahead of their EFG London Jazz Festival dates this month with their new formation, Stuart Nicholson got the low-down on the band’s rebirth

OUT SIDE THE BOX • Brit-jazz legend Geoff Eales has seen it all, done it all, heard it all… and this varied set of experiences, believes Andy Robson, has allowed him to take surprising musical turns

SEARCHING FOR HOPE • As one of the most distinctive players on the current London scene, alto saxophonist Camilla George’s music has an earthy directness that hits the heart, head and hips. Ahead of...