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

Manu Katché, Jazz in the Round, Next Gen Jazz and others complete Love Supreme 2024 line-up

Neil Cowley Trio return with new album Entity

Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding to release Brazilian jazz album with all-star line-up

Editor’s Note

New online global jazz radio platform One Jazz launched by broadcasters Chris Philips and Jez Nelson

Glasgow and Edinburgh Jazz Festival line-ups get Scotland swinging

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS • HIGHLIGHTING SERIOUS TALENT BUBBLING UNDER THE RADAR….

JACQUI DANKWORTH TAKES 5

Maria Schneider and Oslo Jazz Ensemble bring Data Lords to the Barbican in ‘25

65 YEARS AGO – John Dankworth

David Sanborn: 30/07/1945 – 12/05/2024

Palle Danielsson: 15/10/1946 – 18/05/24

Charting the Jazz Message/July 2024

GETTIN’ DOWN ON THE FARM • This month EDDIE MYER travels to Northern Ireland’s top jazz outpost – Magy’s Farm in County Down – to find out about a thriving ‘agricultural’ jazz hot-spot that’s attracting international names

“FOR THE FANS”– LIFTING THE LID ON 'LOUIS IN LONDON' • With the news that Louis Armstrong’s final BBC concerts are to get an official release, Alyn Shipton time-travels back to the summer of 1968 when the legendary trumpeter’s All Stars appeared on the telly – after the cricket!

Northern Lights Are Shining • Winning over concert audiences with their groove-heavy improv, and gathering plaudits for their debut EP, Boreal Sun are looking to warm things up in these cold, dark times. Jane Cornwell spoke to its founders Matt Roberts and Liselotte Östbloom

Real Earth Songs • With a penchant for meditative jazztronica, field recordings and folk songs, Laura Misch operates in the spaces between easy definitions. Gail Tasker caught up with the saxophonist and singer as she returns with an all-acoustic new album, Sample The Earth

Billy’s Full Spectrum Dominance • Remarkably, Billy Cobham turned 80 in May but – with a busy year of touring including a headline spot at this month’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival – you wouldn’t know it. Ahead of all that, he opens up to Stuart Nicholson in an exclusive interview, covering his early life in military bands, tours with Horace Silver, getting fired from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and his classic jazz-rock album Spectrum

Billy Cobham: The 'lost' 1980 interview • Back in March 1980, nine years after his unforgettable debut with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham was still riding high. Jon Newey, then working for music weekly Sounds, managed to grab a rare interview with the drummer, which was published in the paper’s 10 May edition. It’s reprinted here (with a new introduction) for the first time in 44 years, and provides a fascinating snapshot of Cobham’s career and ambitions at the time

MAN ON A (MUSICAL) WIRE • One of the most exciting player-improvisors of his generation, James Brandon Lewis skilfully negotiates the divide between the populist mainstream and the avant-garde. Kevin Le Gendre meets him ahead of his headline appearance at this month’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival

Coming at life from a very different angle • On her new album, Life Is Funny That Way, singer Fay Victor is on a mission to put the music of maverick 1950s pianist Herbie Nichols into the...