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 • Charles Lloyd Ocean Trio, Hiromi and Neset’s Geyser for EFG London Jazz Festival

New Pat Metheny album Dream Box to be released in June

McCreadie and Cole readied for Glasgow Jazz Festival

Jazzwise contributor Val Wilmer celebrates anniversaries at Bishopsgate Institute and Victoria and Albert Museum

Editor’s Note

UK saxophonist Emma Rawicz signs to ACT Music for new LP, Chroma

Klang Tone Records • This month, we hear from Sean Roe who runs Klang Tone Records in Stroud, Gloucestershire

South African classics by Malombo Jazz Makers to get vinyl reissues

Kandace Springs TAKES 5 • The singer chooses the five albums she can’t live without

Steam Down are up for the inaugural Intermission Fest

75 YEARS AGO – Modern Jazz Quartet

SNJO drums up the 'World of the Gods' show

Zoe Rahman and Tim Garland albums to be released on ECN Music

Ian Shaw, Clare Teal and Alex Bone go to Guiting

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

MERRY MONARCH, LONDON • VAL WILMER recalls the Merry Monarch, a North London hostelry with a splendid house band which gave a young Fela Kuti his first chance to play jazz. Photo from the Val Wilmer collection

Charting the Jazz Message/June 2023

NEWS IN BRIEF

Matthew Halsall rolls up for Royal Albert Hall, new LP and UK tour

Garcia and Nu Civilisation Orchestra perform Getz’s Focus at Southbank

Duncan Eagles back with new album Narrations

Swinging to a new groove – Swanage Jazz Festival 2023 • Peter Vacher gets the lowdown on this increasingly diverse southwest jazz fest, which returns this July for its 32nd edition

Skidmore: No greater love

BACK IN THE DAY…

Ahmad Jamal: 02/07/1930 – 16/04/2023

Piano’s new Sultan of swing • Pianist Sultan Stevenson is winning friends and influencing people with his debut Faithful One, a personal affirmation of his deeply-held religious beliefs. Peter Jones meets a gifted musician and composer with heavenly prospects – and a great hat collection

Snazzy stuff! • Newly-released third album Ruins Everything marks a new direction for irrepressible Bristol septet Snazzback. Tony Benjamin meets up with the collective to chart the new path

WANT MORE? YOU GOT IT! • It’s seven years since David Bowie’s dark swansong Blackstar was released – not just coinciding with the iconic singer’s sudden death, but unleashing the power of jazz saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his band on the wider world. Back with I Want More, his most explosive solo album to date, McCaslin speaks to Selwyn Harris about the lust for life fuelling the record

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE… ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVE

From Bogotá with love • Mestizo is a unique 'cross-fertilisation' jazz collective straddling the Colombian capital Bogotá and the UK. As their self-titled debut album is released, Jane Cornwell catches up with some of the principals behind this intriguing project

Half a Ton of TUBBY • As both biographer and keeper of the reedsman’s virtuosic flame, British tenorist Simon Spillett is the modern-day apostle of the late, great Tubby Hayes. As the half-century of the Brit jazz legend’s death looms, Peter Vacher spoke to...