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

In Paradise as Ahmed announces new album

Theo Croker’s DREAM MANIFEST and Wynton Marsalis with J@LCO booked for Barbican shows

Nubya Garcia and Corinne Bailey Rae with Ronnie’s Big Band added to Cheltenham 2025 line-up

Editor’s Note

Laurance & League announce duo shows and remixed Snarky Puppy 4-LP We Like It Here set

BACK IN THE DAY…

Neil Cowley Trio hit the road for UK Entity tour dates

FUTURE MOVERS

ALISON RAYNER TAKES 5 • The bassist and bandleader shares the albums she can’t live without

Leon Foster Thomas, Xhosa Cole and Rob Luft for Academy Jazz Fest, plus Kenny Wheeler celebration for RAM festival

75 YEARS AGO – STAN KENTON’S BIGGEST BAND

Kenny Wheeler’s Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores to be released on Greenleaf Music

Ambrose Akinmusire releases new album honey from a winter stone

Bristol Beacon’s new Education Suite named in honour of Keith Tippett

Martial Solal: 23/08/1927 – 12/12/2024

Roy Haynes: 13/3/1925 – 12/11/2024

Zakir Hussain: 09/03/1951 – 16/12/2024

Lou Donaldson: 01/11/1926 — 09/11/2024

Charting the Jazz Message/February 2025

BOPPING AND BEER WITH BERRY IN BRIXTON • How Jamaican George Berry became a pioneering Brixton landlord and how saxophonist Ralph Moore won his spurs. The indefatigable Val Wilmer explains

Low-End Connections • Already an in-demand player across a range of projects, bassist Myra Brownbridge has just released her debut album as a leader, The Voyage Out. Eddie Myer speaks to her about the journey so far

The Swingin’ Shooting Star • Stuart Nicholson shines a light on the brief but brilliant career of pianist-composer Reginald Foresythe, who took the jazz world by storm, only to fade into obscurity

Golden Hour • As the 50th anniversary of Keith Jarrett’s iconic solo improvised album The Köln Concert comes around on 24 January, Stuart Nicholson tells the story of the less-than-favourable conditions that surrounded its creation. ECM label boss Manfred Eicher and Jarrett himself also reflect on this 66-minute spontaneous composition that has sold more than four million copies

THE SOUND OF JOY • Vocal sensation Samara Joy’s rise since her debut album in 2021 has been meteoric, with three Grammy Awards under her belt; and a Jazzwise Album of the Year for her 2024 long-player, Portrait. Peter Quinn spoke to the Bronx-based singer and reflects on the personal stories behind her cool exterior and immaculate vocal sheen

The Queen of the strings • Stuart Nicholson remembers pioneering guitar maestra Emily Remler, whose early death robbed jazz of one of its brightest prospects

FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE • Saxophonist Xhosa Cole has a knack for making old songs sound new. He speaks to Thomas Rees about his latest album, celebrating that great free radical Thelonious Monk, bohemian ‘boat life’, bold choices and why we should all be on the dancefloor…

“It’s like [Danilo’s] taking a moment at the edge of the water to check out what the surf is doing… waiting for the right moment and then diving in” • Acclaimed pianist Aaron Parks tells Brian Glasser that it’s fellow keyboardist Danilo Pérez’s 2003 album …Till Then that changed his musical life

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