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

Winners of the 2024 APPJG Parliamentary Jazz Awards revealed

Love Supreme announces soul superstar Maxwell as first 2025 main stage headliner

Cheltenham '25 lines up Jools Holland plus Amadou & Mariam

Xhosa Cole dedicates his new live album to 'the genius of Thelonious Monk'

Jazzahead! 2025 set to ‘Reconnect’ Spain, France and Switzerland as partners countries

Editor’s Note

Brubeck, Cowley and Rawicz lined up for 2025 Liverpool Jazz Fest

BACK IN THE DAY…

Jay Phelps takes Kind of Blue and ‘58 Miles on tour

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

JOSEPHINE DAVIES TAKES 5 • The award-winning saxophonist selects the albums she can’t live without

SEVERAL YEARS AGO…

Simcock goes orchestral for Blue Notes: Ellington and Shorter in Brighton

Soweto Kinch’s Soundtrack to the Apocalypse and Laura Mvula with Nu Civilisation Orchestra to play at Southbank X Montreux event

Elliot Galvin signs to Gearbox Records

The 'Miles Ahead' discographical website lists every Davis and Parker session, ever…!

Quincy Jones: 14/03/1933 – 03/11/2024

DANGER ON THE JAZZ BEAT • Former Melody Maker scribe Chris Welch remembers his early days exploring the London night club jazz scene when parents warned of the dangers of mixing with Beatniks, Bohemians and Teddy Boys. Were they right? Now read on…

Alastair Robertson: 03/03/1941 – 23/10/2024

Jimmy Hastings: (12/05/1938 – 18/03/2024)

Albums of the Year: Critics Poll 2024

The listening project • A prodigiously talented young pianist and composer, Jahari Stampley has been drawing admirers from across the world of jazz, including no less a giant than Herbie Hancock. Jane Cornwell meets him

Born to be Blue • Kevin Whitlock tells the tragic story of Beverly Kenney, the hugely gifted 1950s singer-songwriter who took her own life at the age of just 28

Miles: THE FRENCH CONNECTION • Still reeling from John Coltrane’s departure from his band, the early 1960s saw Miles Davis in transition. With the release of Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8, we get to hear at length the next stage of this sonic evolution. With a new line-up of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams with first George Coleman and then Wayne Shorter, Davis rose phoenix-like from the ashes of ill-health and a creative low, to hit extraordinary new highs. Stuart Nicholson connects the historical dots behind this undersung yet vitally important time for Miles

“The energy is tangible, engulfing you in an ocean of creativity” • Trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on the Miles In France recordings

“He’s really finding his range on the trumpet and stretching to new heights rarely heard on studio recordings” • Trumpeter Jay Phelps on Miles’s boundary pushing playing on Miles In France…

“Tony [Williams] was the shot in the arm that Miles needed – it was clear to Miles that Tony was a serious student of jazz as well as a phenomenal drummer” • Miles In France producer Richard Seidel speaks to Stuart Nicholson about the complex interpersonal relationships that fuelled this period of Miles' music

A Brazilian Awakening • Long mutual admirers,...