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

Joshua Redman Super-Band, Rob Luft and China Moses added to EFG London Jazz Fest

Go west! Kinch, Cherise and Millar head for Ealing

Rahman, Rawicz and Crosby line up for Brecon Jazz Fest 40

Editor’s Note

Brit-Jazz 45s series unites new bands with old tunes for new 7” vinyl singles

Aussie upstarts Brekky Boy to fly in for debut UK live dates

Matana Roberts announces new LP Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden… and UK concerts

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

Polly Gibbons TAKES 5 • The vocalist selects the five albums she can’t live without

Freestone and Mick return with Make One Little Room An Everywhere

70 YEARS AGO – Bud Powell

Verve to release Nina Simone’s 1966 Newport live recording for the first time on CD and LP

Randy Brecker and top UK names for Scarborough 20th anniversary Jazz Festival

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

Swinging to Swiss Time • Selwyn Harris looks at an enthralling new documentary mini-series on the legendary line-ups of the storied Montreux Jazz Festival

Charting the Jazz Message/August 2023

Blue Note teams up with Third Man Records for Detroit-themed LP series

International Anthem to release Jaimie Branch’s final album in August

Max Roach’s classic 1968 Members… LP gets wider issue

HARRIS PIANO JAZZ BAR • MARTIN LONGLEY visits the enigmatically-named Harris Piano Jazz Bar, an oasis of jazz in Kraków, Poland

Peter Brötzmann: 06/3/1941 – 22/6/2023

Astrud Gilberto: 29/3/1940 – 5/6/2023

Turn up the quiet • Eddie Myer talks to Tom Ollendorff, a rising star whose modest demeanor disguises fearsome talent and ambition

Groover and shaker • Bassist, impresario, activist… Marianne Windham is a woman of many, many talents. Peter Vacher hears her story

MUSIC IN COLOUR • With a string of awards and critically-acclaimed albums to her name, pianist Zoe Rahman has earned a place at the forefront of the UK jazz scene. With the release of Colour Of Sound, her most expansive album to date, she tells Kevin Le Gendre about how the music was forged from the whole spectrum of human experience

OPENING the GATEWAY • The news that a lost recording of two of jazz’s giants from 1961 is the stuff that music lovers dream of – especially when those titans are John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. And these revelatory recordings of two friends in full flight reveal a fascinating side to their playing and personalities, as Stuart Nicholson explains.

KEEP ON MOVIN’ • Adopt, adapt, evolve and most of all, don’t stand still – sage advice from London-based trumpeter Jay Phelps to young musicians. Jane Cornwell is all ears

CALL COBBS AND HIS USP (A UNIQUE KEYBOARD JOURNEY) • Harpsichord in jazz? What a crazy idea, said people when Albert Ayler recorded with this eighteenth-century instrument. But whose idea was it? And who was Ayler's influential Harlem friend? VAL WILMER has the answers – and the photographs

“It’s the commitment to the moment, and the spirit, the energy, the passion…” • American drummer Mark Guiliana tells Brian Glasser about how an encounter with a classic Coltrane album set him on the path to jazz glory

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