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

Cherise, Camilla George and Rosie Turton lined up for I AM WARRIOR at Jazz Café, London

Deschanel Gordon booked for Brighton Jazz Fest

Miles In France for Bootleg Series Vol.8

Nominations announced for the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards

Banger Factory show, Veronica Swift for Jazz Voice and others added to EFG London Jazz Festival

Editor’s Note – 300 not out!

Brick Lane Jazz Festival announces new nationwide, year-round live series

Laubrock, Ortiz and The Flame for Newcastle jazz fest nights

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

IBRAHIM MAALOUF TAKES 5 • The trumpeter selects the five albums he can’t live without

Claire Martin releases new album Almost In Your Arms ahead of Ronnie’s date

Mercury-nominated corto.alto for Village Underground and UK dates

80 YEARS AGO – Billie Holiday

Russell Malone: 8/11/1963 – 23/8/2024

Shaun Martin: 23/08/1978 – 03/08/2024

NEWS IN BRIEF

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2024

THE ALBERT, PRINCE OF PUBS • Tony Benjamin remembers The Albert Inn, Bedminster and its music-loving landlord Ian Storrer – both vital to the development of Bristol’s jazz scene

Listening Out For Change • Is it time for UK jazz venues to take a different approach to their audiences? Roseanne Hanley assesses the viability of the live jazz scene in the wider UK cultural context that’s tougher than ever but not without hope

Steppes Ahead • Ammar Khalia meets Enkhjargal Erkhembayar – known mononymously as Enji – the Mongolian jazz singer and composer who’s making waves here in the West

The Queen of Harps • Kevin Whitlock looks at the life and career of Dorothy Ashby, the first great harpist in jazz, whose work is now receiving the consideration it deserves

HARP & SOUL • 2024 has been deemed ‘The year of Alice’ – a 12-month celebration of the life and work of legendary harpist Alice Coltrane. Stuart Nicholson assesses her legacy and influence, while contemporary harp star Brandee Younger offers a personal perspective

Girls Allowed! • How much has the position of women in jazz improved, when compared to our first edition back in 1997? As part of our 300th issue celebrations, Jane Cornwell speaks to five key figures who also happen to be female to try to find out…

BUT STILL MORE TO BE DONE…

The Power of Three! • The multi-talented Alice Zawadzki and her longstanding trio have just made their debut recording – Za Górami, a very personal, European folk-influenced collection – for the iconic ECM label. Selwyn Harris speaks to her

Black British bloodlines and Humph’s favourite singer • Maxine Daniels, big sister of actor and singer Kenny Lynch, was a successful and pioneering vocalist – and member of the Humphrey Lyttelton band – in the 1950s and 60s. She deserves to be better remembered today, argues Val Wilmer in this fascinating study of 20th Century East End London black life

TURNINGPOINT • French vocalist Cyrille Aimée tells Brian Glasser how a Miles Davis classic introduced her to the concept of tonal colour and set her on her musical life journey

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