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

Coltrane landmarks, A Love Supreme and The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, set for upscale vinyl re-releases on Impulse! Records

Możdżer and Jopek among the stars at inaugural London Polish Jazz Festival

K-Music Festival 2025 brings the best in contemporary Korean sounds to UK

Editor’s Note

One more night! Love Supreme Jazz Festival announces expansion plans for 2026

Tomorrow’s Warriors to celebrate 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance at Southbank Centre

INCOMING!– SCORCHING NEW RELEASES LEGGING IT INTO THE JAZZWISE INBOX…

BACK IN THE DAY… • The Real Birth of Madchester – in 1960!

FUTURE MOVERS

JOE STILGOE TAKES 5 • The singer and pianist selects the albums he can’t live without…

Emma Rawicz’s INKYRA and Mark Kavuma kick off Jazz Connections at Brighton Dome’s Studio Theatre

65 YEARS AGO… MAX ROACH

Dame Cleo Laine: 28/10/1927 – 24/07/2025

Gower Power: The Swansea International Jazz Festival’s back!

Wolverhampton Arts Centre announces autumn jazz line-up

Charting the Jazz Message/September 2025

They love him madly • Two leading lights of the UK jazz scene have put together a unique homage to Duke Ellington. Kevin Whitlock takes a trip to the seaside to find out more

BOHO JAZZ ON THE FULHAM ROAD • Remembering the Cafe Des Artistes, situated at 266a Fulham Road SW10.

Poppy Daniels, KNATS and Billy Marrows lined up to play for the RAH Elgar Room’s autumn Late Night Jazz series

Melody, je t’adore! • Scots pianist Fraser Urquhart loves the great show tunes from Broadway’s golden era, but presents them in a strikingly modern and fresh way. Peter Vacher approves

The Motor City magician • Detroit-born prodigy Terry Pollard was not just an astonishing pianist (and vibes player), but a pioneering female jazz musician – who famously inspired bandleader Terry Gibbs to hire her for his band. Stuart Nicholson trumpets her talents

We STILL insist! • Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and vocalist Christie Dashiell are winning plaudits for their recharged and reframed version of Max Roach’s seminal 1960 album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, to mirror the division and conflict of today’s turbulent world. Stuart Nicholson speaks to both musicians to get the inside story

BOLDER Brass • From rising sideman working the London clubs to leading his band on the storied stage of New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, it’s been quite the journey for Theon Cross. Nick Hasted meets the tuba meister to find out where he came from, where he’s been and where he’s heading

Trails Of The Unexpected • Fred Hersch has had a remarkable career – not just thanks to his illustrious collaborations with Esperanza Spalding, Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler among many others, but also for surviving a coma, before becoming a celebrated ECM-signed solo artist. Ahead of the pianist’s 70th birthday in October, and a celebratory concert at London’s Wigmore Hall in September, Alyn Shipton spoke to the piano master to find out more

FLOWERS FROM THE APOCALYPSE • With a musical partnership forged over three decades, saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp are explorers of the outer limits of sound, taking their improvisations to extraordinary levels of intensity. To coincide with the...