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

Family Events and Freestages complete the Cheltenham Jazz Fest 2023 programme • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

Zara McFarlane, Tony Kofi, Nigel Price and Norma Winstone aim to get Swanage swinging

All-star Wayne Shorter tribute leads EFG London Jazz Festival 2023 headliners

Scots saxophonist Bancroft launches Myriad Streams music platform – and a new album

Editor’s Note

Union Music • Each month we profile a local record shop… This month, we hear from our friends and monthly chart contributors Union Music in Lewes

Kandace Springs, Artemis, Branford Marsalis line up for 2023’s EFG London Jazz Festival Summer Series… and Herbie!

Lacey, Birchall and Korwar are booked for this May’s Jazz Stroud festival

Binker Golding TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the five albums he can’t live without

Bristol Jazz Festival bounces back for 10th anniversary

65 YEARS AGO – Stan Tracey

Mica Millar and Alina Bzhezhinska make moves at Manchester Jazz Fest 2023

Maria Schneider, Pat Metheny and many more confirmed for July’s North Sea Jazz Festival

Leeds Jazz Festival returns for its second multi-venue edition

FUTURE MOVERS • Highlighting serious talent now bubbling under the radar….

THE BULL’S HEAD, BARNES, SW13 • In another look at the famous Thames-side pub and jazz venue, former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH recalls wild nights when the drink flowed while Dick Morrissey and Phil Seamen blew up a storm

Charting the Jazz Message/May 2023

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

Tony Coe: 29/11/1934 – 16/03/2023

Uncovering A new Under Milk Wood • The Stan Tracey Quartet’s Under Milk Wood gets a sparkling new vinyl reissue in May. Jon Newey dusts off the release history of this landmark British jazz album

Way of the West • Tony Dudley-Evans looks back (and forwards) at his time as the Cheltenham Jazz Festival’s adventurous artistic programmer prior to his final bow this year.

Seismic Drift • Saxophonist Mette Henriette is one of the most intriguing artists on the ECM roster, a musician of ambition and vision. Nick Hasted hears about her new album

Bristol’s Bigfoot • South West-based piano trio Yetii blend current jazz influences with the rock sounds of Radiohead and Carole King – Stuart Nicholson thinks they could be on to something big

BASS ON TOP • A towering figure in the bass world since he burst onto the global jazz scene in 1970s as a founding member of Return To Forever and with his classic solo album School Days, Stanley Clarke is now back with a new band of Young Turks, N 4EVER. He spoke to Kevin Le Gendre about his extraordinary career and his profuse passion for playing prior to his Cheltenham Jazz Festival headline show

RAISING the RUTH • Bassist, singer, bandleader, composer… Ruth Goller is a onewoman musical powerhouse. Ahead of a highly-anticipated appearance at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival with her thrilling band Skylla on 28 April, Tony Benjamin caught up with her

ESPEN’S PROGRESS • Norwegian pianist Espen Eriksen has always thought in the long term, a strategist rather than a tactician. It’s an approach that is paying dividends, commercially as well as artistically, as Stuart Nicholson discovers ahead of the Trio’s...