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

Marcus Miller, Candi Staton, Thundercat, and Immanuel Wilkins for Love Supreme Jazz Festival 10th Anniversary Edition • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

Brad Mehldau plays The Beatles on new solo piano album 'Your Mother Should Know'

Georgia Cécile joins SNJO for This Is A Communion tour

Previously unissued Graham Collier live set gets vinyl and CD release

Editor’s Note

Soweto Kinch and the LSO to perform White Juju at Printworks, London

Høiby, Rahman and Kayser line up for World Heart Beat Academy’s inaugural jazz season at Embassy Gardens

Sound Records • Each month we profile a local record shop that’s deeply connected with its customers and is well-stocked with vinyl gems old and new… this month: Sound Records of Stroud in Gloucestershire

Laurance and League release duo set Where You Wish You Were

Immanuel Wilkins TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the five albums he can’t live without

Yeoh and Bzhezhinska celebrate International Women’s Day at London's Brasserie Zedel

Cathy Jordan joins Clarvis & Noble for Freight Train album and tour

100 YEARS AGO – Bessie Smith

Tristan Banks Quartet among Ubuntu Music's 2023 releases

Tommy Blaize & NYJO present The Music of Ray Charles

Tessa Souter lined up for intimate London dates

Dynamic duo Law and Hitchcock hit the road…

BRILLIANT CORNERS • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH fondly remembers sailing down the Thames on board a crazy jazz boat, repelling boarders with crates of beer and raving with the Beatniks cheering on George Melly, ‘the King of Camp Trad’…

Charting the Jazz Message/February 2023

NEWS IN • BRIEF

David Ornette Cherry 13/04/1958 – 21/11/2022

Whiplash director Damien Chazelle returns with jazz-inspired, 1920s LA epic Babylon

Precious GEMS • One of the reissue highlights of 2022 was the release of Emerald City Nights, a pair of newly-unearthed 1960s trio recordings from Ahmad Jamal. STUART NICHOLSON puts these gems into the context of the pianist’s glittering career

National Jazz Archive appoints Mark Kass as new Board Chair

Allison's Wonderland • Drawing its influence from French classical music as much as it does the jazz vocal greats, Allison Wheeler’s debut album Winterspring marks the arrival of an intriguing new talent. Peter Quinn meets the US-born, Czech-based singer and composer

Memes Maketh The Man • Guitar ace Tom Ford has long been in demand as a session sideman, but now uses meme-based humour to cut through the online noise, Hugh Morris charts his journey

Forged from Fire • Having won plaudits for her 2020 album, Pursuance: The Coltranes, NYC native Lakecia Benjamin signalled a bold new chapter in her solo career. Now with her Terri Lyne Carrington-produced follow-up Phoenix, which follows the altoist’s recovery from a car crash last year and personal losses during the pandemic, she spoke to Kevin Le Gendre about the life events that have shaped her music

UNDER VIRTUAL SKIES • Guitarist Ant Law and saxophonist Alex Hitchcock overcame the obstacles imposed by Covid lockdowns to connect with each other musically and a starry cast of A-list jazz names – and the results...