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Jazz In The Round and New Gen Jazz stages complete Love Supreme 10th birthday line-up • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

Spillett’s Tubby Hayes Big Band album to be the first release on Mr PC Records

Norah Jones and Makaya McCraven added to EFG London Jazz Fest

Lost live Coltrane and Dolphy recordings to be issued on Impulse!

Editor’s Note

Analogue October Records • This month we hear from Craig Crane who runs Analogue October Records, Chichester a shop that’s about to become a vinyl label too…

McCalla/Nash and Kofi/Rowe booked for 606 Club’s Jazz on the Lawn

Ellington: From Stride to Strings plus Ethan Iverson commission premiere lined up for The Grange Festival

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

Duncan Eagles TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the five albums he can’t live without…

Mehldau goes poetic for The Folly of Desire – and Largo gets 20th anniversary double-vinyl reissue

75 YEARS AGO – Thelonious Monk

Watts gets the retrospective treatment

Boxed Blossoms: Dearie’s anthologised

Blow me! Joshua Redman signs to Blue Note Records

NEWS ● IN BRIEF

Obituary

Charting the Jazz Message/July 2023

BACK IN THE DAY…

Jazz Jamaica All Stars lead the 75th Windrush Day celebration at RFH

THE BROMLEY COURT HOTEL • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH recalls hot and sweaty jazz nights at the Italianate hotel on Bromley Hill in the 1960s with help from Peter Malkin who ran a club there as a youngster, booking star names from Tubby Hayes to Ronnie Scott

A decade of supreme LOVE • Ahead of the 10th Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Nick Hasted speaks to its founder Ciro Romano to discover the secret of the event’s success

New Found Horizons • Jasmine Myra was in the process of establishing her career and making her debut album when the world stopped because of Covid. That album has finally been released and Myra couldn’t be happier, as Nick Hasted discovers

Viva Colectiva! • The all-female Latin jazz group Colectiva have been wowing festival crowds with their rhythmically-charged sound. Founder/leader Viva Msimang spoke to Peter Jones to explain their origin story and musical principles

IT’S MILLER TIME! • Few jazz musicians have had a career so successful – as both instrumentalist and producer – as Marcus Miller. Ahead of his headline appearance at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the bassist extraordinaire spoke to Stuart Nicholson about making music with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr, Frank Sinatra and countless others

MARCUS MILLER: SOLO HIGHLIGHTS

Church of sound (and art) • US altoist Immanuel Wilkins’ second album The 7th Hand topped many a jazz fan’s favourites list at the end of 2022. Kevin Le Gendre speaks to this most thoughtful of musicians, whose mission is to unite all expressive arts – visual and musical – into a single creative community

THIS IS NOT AMERICA • 1960s and 70s are seen as a golden age for British and European jazz – and, as Stuart Nicholson argues, while many leading musicians equalled the prowess of their US counterparts, others saw it as an opportunity to forge a distinctive sound based on local culture

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