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

News

K-Music Festival returns with Black String and EFG London Jazz Festival shows

Never-before-issued McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson 1966 live recording set for release on Blue Note in November

Editor’s Note

Keith Jarrett’s At The Deer Head Inn gets companion release for 30th anniversary

Nina Simone celebrated in new Montreux Jazz Festival/Southbank Centre partnership

Lakecia Benjamin, the Sun Ra Arkestra and Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry for 60th Jazzfest Berlin

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

TAKES 5 • Multi-instrumentalist Liam Shortall – AKA corto.alto – selects the albums he can’t live without

Pat Metheny, Lighthouse Trio and Omar + QCBA to play Cambridge Jazz Festival

60 YEARS AGO – Clark Terry

New Remler, Evans and Sun Ra albums released on RSD Black Friday

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

Benny Golson: 25/01/1929 – 21/09/2024

Charting the Jazz Message/November 2024

Martin France: 29/02/64 – 05/09/24

Dan Morgenstern: 24/10/1929 – 07/09/2024

GLOBAL SOUNDS IN THE BIG SMOKE • The EFG London Jazz Festival returns with another 10-day citywide line-up. Ammar Kalia speaks to its programmer Pelin Opcin to get the lowdown on the many highlights

Ronnie’s Return • Having re-opened its doors in September after a summer refurbishment, London’s iconic Ronnie Scott’s looks and sounds even better. Mike Flynn caught up with the club’s manager Fred Nash to find out what’s new…

The Blues Regulator • Stepping out for the first time as a leader with his solo debut, Artie Zaitz combines retro feel with a modern approach to the guitar-meets-Hammond trio. Tom Spargo speaks to the guitarist about how a love of the blues is at the root of his sound

The sun also rises and rises • Mongolian-born pianist and composer Shuteen Erdenebataar is one of the most exciting young talents in jazz. With an acclaimed debut album and a series of thrilling live shows under her belt, there’s still more to come from this supernaturally talented and ambitious musician, as Kevin Whitlock discovers

To infinity and beyond • Guitar icon Pat Metheny has recently unshackled himself from extravagant post-fusion forays to walk the solo performance tight-rope, as heard on his new album, MoonDial. Stuart Nicholson speaks to the master musician about the infinite possibilities of focusing solely on the baritone guitar

BACK WITH A BANG! • Neil Cowley has decided to re-form his famous trio after performing and recording as a solo artist for seven years. Here he tells Andy Robson why, and what he hopes to achieve…

It Takes Two • One of the most hotly-anticipated shows at this year’s EJF London Jazz Festival is a duo piano performance by Swiss legend Nik Bärtsch and Greek maestra Tania Giannouli. Ahead of that concert, Selwyn Harris quizzes Tania about her inspirations and the joys of collaboration

Jeru’s new kind of cool • From teen prodigy to elder statesman, Gerry Mulligan is a curiously underappreciated figure in jazz. Concurrent with the release of a new archival album, Spring In Stockholm: Live At Konserthuset 1959 on New Land, Mulligan biographer Alyn Shipton argues it’s time he was more widely appreciated, while on page 32, we follow up with a...