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.

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Elaine Delmar, Hejira and Simon Spillett headline Swanage Jazz Festival 2025

BBC Proms bounce back with the Samara Joy Octet and Miho Hazama-conducted orchestra, Anoushka Shankar and more

Editor’s Note

Andy Sheppard Quartet looks to past and future for UK tour

INCOMING! – EXCITING NEW RELEASES HOT-FOOTING IT INTO THE JAZZWISE INBOX…

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

SHEZ RAJA TAKES 5 • The bass guitarist and bandleader selects the quintet of albums he can’t live without

Julian Lage and Polish Jazz Focus booked for Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Fest 2025

60 YEARS AGO… WES MONTGOMERY

OBITUARY

Zawadzki up for inaugural Tapestry at Southampton’s Westquay festival

Nic Meier, Full Circle Quartet and more lined up for 2025’s Petersfield Jazz & Blues Festival

Charting the Jazz Message/June 2025

Jazz from England fires up Jazzahead! 2025 • Mike Flynn and Christoph Giese report back from a busy time in Bremen

LITTLE GIANT, BIG TOP • The story of the short-lived Tubb’s Place, saxophonist Tubby Hayes’ forgotten fling with jazz club promotion. Simon Spillett tells all

“Most people don’t know what problem they need solving… until they start talking to someone who really listens” • In the first of a series of columns on how to navigate a career in jazz today, Mike Flynn speaks to music career coach Jennie Cashman about how she’s helping overwhelmed jazz musicians achieve a better work-life balance and refocus their priorities

The Happy Wanderer • Up-and-coming trumpeter Jackson Mathod is a busy bee, flitting between diverse projects and styles with admirable energy. Peter Jones attempts to find out what motivates him

Bigger is better! • Big bands aren’t exactly in vogue right now, and can be difficult to maintain in uncertain economic times such as ours. So why did up-and-coming saxophonist Tom Smith choose an 18-piece ensemble for his new album? Tom Spargo finds out….

WHERE DO WE BELONG? •  Branford Marsalis has pulled a surprise move with his first album for the Blue Note label, with a fulsome salute to Keith Jarrett’s much-loved European Quartet with Jan Garbarek, and that group’s 1974 album, Belonging. Stuart Nicholson finds the American tenorist in garrulous mood as he explains why he felt the time was right to explore a decidedly Euro-centric take on jazz

A piece of the (inter)action! • Having just celebrated her fiftieth birthday, the renowned clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen is showing no signs of slowing down. Added to a frantic gigging and recording schedule, there’s the latest album Interaction, released earlier in the year to huge acclaim. She tells Alyn Shipton that music-making is, for her, very much a family affair

The infinite bliss • Oxford-based pianist Pat Thomas has built an international reputation for his ability to deep dive into free improvisation. As he releases an extraordinary new album, The Bliss of Bliss, Daniel Spicer speaks to the keyboardist about his ceaseless search for new sounds

DIZZY REECE: Blowing in from Jamaica • Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece fought racism and rejection in postwar England to become a star on the Blue Note label. Val Wilmer describes...