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

Reeves, Høiby, Makhathini, Rawicz and BBC Young Jazz Musician final added to EFG LJF

John Surman announces final live shows

Harpist Nala Sinephro returns with Endlessness LP and Barbican date

Previously unreleased Gerry Mulligan 1959 Stockholm live set to be issued as premium vinyl LP in UK by New Land

Editor’s Note

First Brubeck Living Legacy Prize awarded to Dutch Saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk

Jazz Central Mentoring Festival returns to Brum’s 1000 Trades

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

JIHYE LEE TAKES 5 • The composer selects the albums she can’t live without

Kurt Elling steps out for live dates with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

70 YEARS AGO – JJ Johnson

Charlotte Keeffe gears up recordings, gigs and more

Monty Alexander and Camilla George head to Rye Jazz & Blues Fest

Looking for funding? Applications are now open for music grants from $500,000 new AmplifyWorld platform's Artist Fund

Charting the Jazz Message/September 2024

LOUNGIN’ AROUND • Peter Jones takes a trip down Brick Lane in East London to visit Ninety One Living Room, one of the capital’s most adventurous venues

John Mayall OBE: 29/11/1933-22/7/2024

Irène Schweizer: 02/06/1941 – 16/07/2024

A NEW SONIC DAWN • Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær’s 1998 album Khmer came like a bolt out of the blue when it was first released, with its intense mix of heavy dub electronica, spacious melodies and crunching ethno-music textures. It was like nothing ECM had released before, and ushered in a new dawn for electronic jazz. The album is set to be celebrated as part of this month’s 20th anniversary PUNKT festival in Kristiansand, Norway, and Molvær is also artistic director of the Jazz Juniors festival in Krakow, Poland in late September, Mike Flynn spoke to him about this landmark album

Kenny Wheeler’s Lost Scores recorded by Royal Academy and Frost School of Music students at Abbey Road Studios for 2025 release

The future’s bright… • Dutch-born, London-resident saxophonist Kasper Rietkerk tells Selwyn Harris why moving from a small town to the big city, and embracing the London jazz scene and its musicians has been crucial to his development as a player and composer

Standing on the shoulders of giants • Despite her youth, saxophonist Sarah Hanahan has a knowledge of, and deep respect for, the jazz titans who’ve preceded her. As her debut album is released, Andrey Henkin meets a player with real promise

A LUST FOR LIFE • As the veteran saxophonist John Surman announces his retirement from touring (but not recording or composing) on the eve of his 80th birthday and the release of a new album, Words Unspoken, Stuart Nicholson meets up with the great man and discovers a musician with an undimmed zest for living, and for the processes of creation

THE BIG BAND IN BALANCE • Jane Cornwell meets Daniel Casimir, the thirty-something London bassist and bandleader who with his new album Balance is reinventing the big band sound and format with his multi-racial and uniquely eclectic ensemble

A Sense of Belonging • This October sees the 50th anniversary of one of Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek’s most influential ECM...