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

Pat Metheny, Robert Glasper, Cassie Kinoshi and Veronica Swift booked for 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival programme

London Afrobeat Collective and Allysha Joy help Ealing Jazz Fest hit 30 in style

Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund celebrate 30 years of e.s.t. with live album

Editor’s Note

Chick Corea and Béla Fleck’s final Duo recordings to be released on new album Remembrance

Pete Oxley launches ‘Look, Scan, Listen’ distribution service

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

TINEKE POSTMA TAKES 5

World Heart Beat heats up with Julian Joseph premiere and much more

55 YEARS AGO – Les McCann

Taking the late Trane… • This April saw BBC Radio 3 launch a new nightly weekday show, 'Round Midnight, hosted by renowned UK saxophonist and broadcaster Soweto Kinch. With the show already hitting its stride, Mike Flynn spoke to the presenter about the possibilities of this new nationwide jazz programme

Charting the Jazz Message/June 2024

THE SPIN: KEEPING OXFORD’S JAZZ WHEELS TURNING • PETER JONES finds the club founded 25 years ago by Pete Oxley in the rudest of health

Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath: 31/5/1935 – 3/4/2024

Casey Benjamin: 10/10/1978 – 31/3/2024

Michael Cuscuna: 20/09/1948 – 20/4/2024

NEWS IN BRIEF

PICTURES PERFECT • From hyperactive anime to an in-depth ECM documentary, Selwyn Harris harvests a bumper crop of new jazz-related movie and streaming releases

A double vision… • Singer and saxophonist Emily Masser may still be studying at the Guildhall but she’s already a stand out talent fusing two disciplines into a singular style. Alyn Shipton spoke to her about her fast-developing skills as both instrumentalist and singer

Making 'real world' connections • With appearances at Love Supreme and Jazz re:freshed this summer, twenty-something saxophonist Maddy Coombs is on the rise. Eddie Myer discovers her life offline among a diverse and inspirational peer community

POTTER’S WHEEL SPINS FULL CIRCLE • Having explored synth-fuelled fusion with his Circuits trio, sax heavyweight Chris Potter now returns to his small group jazz roots with an all-star band for his latest album, Eagle’s Point. Selwyn Harris spoke to the multi-reed maestro about how this all-acoustic revival not only kicks against today’s dominance of digital, but also the fallibilities of AI

Voyaging into the unknown • Saxophonist Tim Garland and his top-flight Lighthouse Trio, with Gwilym Simcock and Asaf Sirkis, celebrate 20 years together with an ambitious double album including the Britten Sinfonia and violin star Thomas Gould. The multi-reedist tells Stuart Nicholson that its title, Moment of Departure, simultaneously nods to its improvisation-spiked compositions as well as the hopes and fears of migration

Still Waters Run Deep • Saxophonist Jasmine Myra is back with an expansive second album, Rising, ushering in a new creative phase which sees her building in confidence as a bandleader and composer. Nick Hasted spoke to the altoist about her highly personal take on 21st Century spiritual jazz

FREEDOM AMONG THE STARS • A century ago an extraordinary singular human by the name of Marshall Allen was beamed to this planet. He was to go on to become a member of iconic Afro-futurist...