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

Kurt Elling steps out with new label and WDR live album

Arts Council England announces £25,000 support for jazzahead! and ‘Breakthrough Act’ at Jazz FM Awards

Editor’s Note

APPJAG Review offers ‘Actionable Roadmap’ for the future of jazz in the UK

HOT BOX – NEW RELEASES LANDING IN THE JAZZWISE INBOX LIKE ASTRONAUTS IN A DRAGON CAPSULE!

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

JEREMY PELT TAKES 5

Yazz Ahmed and Rawicz/Simcock opt for 30th Manchester Jazz Fest

70 YEARS AGO… HERBIE NICHOLS

Samara Joy, Ezra Collective, Tigran Hamasyan, Branford Marsalis and others sign up for North Sea Jazz 2025 bill

New Regency Orchestra and Ochoa fire up La Linea’s 25th

Camilla George, Jay Phelps and Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band booked for Leeds Jazz Fest '25

Charting the Jazz Message/May 2025

Bill Ashton: 06/12/1936 – 08/03 2025

Tony Kinsey: 10/10/1927 – 9/02/2025

Ronald Atkins 01/06/1936 – 19/03/2025

GRASSROOTS REVIVAL! • Peter Jones salutes the indefatigable enthusiasm of local promoter Jenny Green, who’s built a successful monthly programme of gigs at the Apron Cafe Bar at the Chequer Mead Theatre in East Grinstead

Julian Joseph, Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason and Curtis Stigers lead the inaugural Rainham Piano Festival

A passion for the Parabola • This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival sees some forward-looking moves taking place in the Parabola Arts Centre’s line-up, Ammar Kalia spoke to its new programmer Alex Carr to find out more

Quiet rise of UK jazz’s Renaissance woman • Ursula Harrison won last year’s BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year, bringing this Welsh native’s talents to wider public attention. Victoria Kingham discovers how the bassist’s blending of genres and extensive studies shape her forward-thinking music

Lord of the strings • Stuart Nicholson looks back at the career of that most underrated of jazz guitar masters, Tal Farlow, who often preferred fishing to soaking up the limelight

FREE TO THE CORE • Brooklyn-based saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has been forging a reputation for working across multiple projects with a fearsome intensity, be it his rock-fueled group The Messthetics, his Jesup Wagon band or his Red Lily Quintet. The tenorist’s latest trio outing, Apple Cores, distills all of these into an electro-acoustic melting pot. He tells Kevin Le Gendre its inspiration sprung from, of all things, the pages of a music magazine…

Keep on keeping on! • Now celebrating a quarter century as an independent artist and impresario, singer Georgia Mancio releases her tenth album A Story Left Untold. Peter Quinn discovers the unusual story behind the new record and finds out how Mancio manages to keep juggling so many varied interests

DUB AGAINST DYSTOPIA • As a member of Ezra Collective, Joe Armon-Jones has won the Mercury Music Prize, played Wembley Arena – and won a Brit Award. Alongside this his solo career is blossoming as well, with a two-part new album, All The Quiet, and a headline slot at Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Ammar Kalia talks to the keyboard wizard about dub and the spectre of a future without music

THE MAN WITH THE HORN • Freddie Hubbard was often buffeted...