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

Brian Jackson, Colectiva, Mama Terra and more complete packed Love Supreme Jazz Fest 2025 programme • For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com

Bill Frisell, Hermeto Pascoal, Michael Wollny Trio and Marius Neset with London Sinfonietta announced for EFG London Jazz Festival

Editor’s Note

Strange, Høiby and Astral Cinema announced for Sounds of Denmark 2025 at PizzaExpress Soho and Turner Sims

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

LAKECIA BENJAMIN TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the albums she can’t live without…

Rare Mike Taylor albums, Pendulum and Trio, set for vinyl release as part of British Jazz Explosion series

70 YEARS AGO… COUNT BASIE

Way Out West Big Band salute life and music of Tony Kinsey

Mark Kavuma and Georgia Cécile for inaugural De Beauvoir Jazz Festival

Lillian Boutté: 06/08/1949 — 23/05/25

Al (Aloysius Tyrone) Foster: 18/01/1943 – 28/05/2025

Brian Kellock: 28/12/1962 – 27/05/2025

Charting the Jazz Message/July 2025

DANISH JAZZ SPOT BRINGS HOME THE BACON • Peter Jones visits the Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen’s equivalent to Ronnie Scott’s and a favourite stop off for touring musicians from abroad

“Don’t compromise your integrity to compete with an AI-assisted lounge pianist…” • In the next part of our series on the dos and don’ts of making and releasing music today, Eddie Myer – bassist, Jazzwise contributor and Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Studies at BIMM in Brighton – answers some of the burning questions about the daunting digital music universe

Do you C what she did? • Pianist and composer Claire Cope’s gifts for musical storytelling and marshalling a big band are gaining attention and plaudits from jazz lovers, particularly with Every Journey, her latest album with her group Ensemble C. Andy Robson finds out more

The Showstopper! • A singer’s singer like no other, Betty Carter could do it all – and her live masterpiece The Audience With Betty Carter made it into Jazzwise’s book 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World at No.65. Stuart Nicholson explains why we all need to remember the extraordinary voice of ‘Betty BeBop’

SHE’LL PUT A SPELL ON you… • As the 60th anniversary of Nina Simone’s seismic album I Put A Spell On You swings around this year, Kevin Le Gendre assesses the importance of her legacy and speaks to contemporary kindred spirit and jazz vocalist, China Moses about how Simone’s songbook continues to resonate powerfully today

A WARRIOR’S JOURNEY • Brit-jazz bass boss and Tomorrow’s Warriors co-founder Gary Crosby OBE turned 70 this year, but shows no sign of slowing down. He speaks to Thomas Rees about his lifelong fight for art, the secret to TW’s incredible success – and the brush with death that changed everything

Beyond Bluegrass • First emerging as part of the New Grass Revival and his Grammy-winning group The Flecktones in the late 1980s, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has traversed the upper echelons of jazz and bluegrass as well as forging a fruitful partnership with the late Chick Corea. Victoria Kingham spoke to him about his thrilling new BEATrio ahead of their...