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

News • Stanley Clarke, Georgia Cécile, Kit Downes' Deadeye and Laura Jurd TDE Tribute for Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2023 headliners

Julian Lage hits the road for UK mini-tour and new EP, The Layers

FREE: Scottish Jazz CD with April’s issue of Jazzwise

Cécile McLorin Salvant returns with new album Mélusine

Editor’s Note

Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Dave Okumu and more release Miles Davisinspired London Brew LP

Emma Rawicz, Chris Potter, Darius Brubeck and Courtney Pine march in for Ronnie Scott’s nights

Rollin’ 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: Chris Welch pops into his local store, Rollin’ Records of West Wickham, Kent

Hülsmann/Gunnlaugs and Shaw/Carroll to meet up for 2023 Steinway 2-Piano Festival

Jasmine Myra seeks new Horizons on tour

Tristan Banks TAKES 5 • The drummer selects the albums he can’t live without

Lakecia Benjamin and Jazz Jamaican booked for Jazz Café

Parlato & Loueke’s Lean In among Edition new releases

70 YEARS AGO – Dave Brubeck

Go West! Sonny Rollins gets a Crafty super deluxe re-release

Elemental, my dear buyer: New Evans, Baker and Stitt LPs get April Record Store Day outings

JazzFM partners with Brick Lane Jazz Festival

BRILLIANT • This month: Hanging at the backstage bar at Fairfield Hall in Croydon and photographing Otis Spann in the early 1960s.

Charting the Jazz Message/March 2023

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

Obituaries

She Gets Carter… • Paris-born, London-based vocalist/bassist Amy Gadiaga has been mentored by Tomorrow’s Warriors, is studying at Trinity Laban and is starting to make waves in her adopted homeland with her intimate style. Peter Jones gets the sweet and lowdown

Give the drummer some! • Brit sticksman and Nigel Price’s drummer, Joel Barford, is winning friends and plaudits with his irresistible swingdriven rhythms. Peter Vacher spoke to him

HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE • Jazz musicians covering The Beatles is nothing new; but with his latest album Your Mother Should Know, pianist Brad Mehldau has created perhaps the finest set of jazz interpretations of the Fab Four’s songs yet released. Selwyn Harris met him

Gael forces • The huge contribution Scottish musicians have made to the richness of UK jazz over the years has long been underestimated. It is only now, believes Stuart Nicholson, that this historical wrong is being righted as a new generation of players, bandleaders, composers and educators take their deserved place in the spotlight

Everything comes to she who waits… • Pianist and composer Rebecca Nash has found that patience has its virtues, now that her career’s taking off. Tony Benjamin wants to know more about the waiting gain…

MUSIC IN THE ROUND • Pianist Bobo Stenson has been working with ECM label founder Manfred Eicher for more than half a century. As his latest album for the label, Sphere, is released, Jazzwise’s Alyn Shipton caught up with the Swede to talk about his new record and a long, illustrious career

TURNING POINT • Drum maven and composer Terri Lyne Carrington tells Brian Glasser how Roy Haynes’...