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

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Harrop, Sheppard and the Westbrooks head to Blackheath Halls this autumn

Nominations for 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards announced

Editor’s Note

Randy Brecker, Allexa Nava and Poppy Daniels all booked for Brighton Jazz Festival 2025

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

ERIC ALEXANDER TAKES 5 • The saxophonist selects the albums he can’t live without

Wild West! Larry Stabbins’ jazznoir supergroup heads up the second Westport Sound Festival

65 YEARS AGO… CANNONBALL ADDERLEY

Miles of Iles – Hamburg Highs with the NDR Bigband

McCreadie hits the Outer Hebrides and Hollywood for Spike Lee score

Emma Smith to join the London Concertante’s Ella and Friends tour

Charting the Jazz Message/October 2025

Sheila Jordan: 18/11/1928 – 11/08/2025

Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi to light up Leyburn Jazz Festival 2025

SNJO explore the music of Weather Report for new tour

FIRST AID FOR EAST COAST SCOTTISH JAZZ BUFFS • Hospitalfield is an arts centre in an historic house in Arbroath on Scotland’s east coast. Alan Steadman, who started up a jazz club there, tells all…

It’s On! Nigel Price announces 'UK Grassroots Tour' 2025

Tabor, Ballamy and Warren Reform Quercus booked for UK dates

Jazz Promotion Network 2025 Conference heads to Cardiff

Alexandra Ridout brings her New York Quartet to the UK

Best laid plan… • One of the UK’s most exciting young trumpeters, Olivia Cuttill is woman with a long-term strategy (as well as a sense of style)… Victoria Kingham meets her to find out more

Feel free to improvise • Kevin Whitlock looks back at the life and career of pioneering guitarist Derek Bailey, who played with everyone from Shirley Bassey and David Sylvian to Evan Parker and Anthony Braxton – and changed the course of British music

THE CREATOR HAD a master plan • Three years after his death aged 81, the soulful sound of Pharoah Sanders continues to reverberate from the beyond. Riches from his six-decade career are still emerging – not least a timely reissue of his Strata-East debut, Izipho Zam (My Gifts), and a newlyunearthed 1975 live recording, Love Is Here. Daniel Spicer explores how Sanders’ giant leaps – from 1950s bebop to working with UK electronic musician Floating Points – are all part of his singular sonic vision

Godlike! Five essential Pharoah albums

Reflections ON OBSESSION • Jazz wasn’t Brigitte Beraha’s first love, but it will certainly be her last. As her latest album Teasing Reflections is released, Andy Robson hears about her journey from classical piano and pop to the acme of jazz singing

Rite Here Rite Now • It’s been a frantic decade for trumpeter Laura Jurd with motherhood and six albums under her belt. Returning again, regenergised and with a new album Rites & Revelations, she speaks to Selwyn Harris about its ‘folk-grunge’ sound

(BACK TO) DIZZY AND ART • When Chuck Mangione died in July aged 84, his huge 1977 jazz-funk hit ‘Feels So Good’ ensured his passing garnered headlines across the globe. Yet this virtuoso trumpeter and flugelhornist was no mere one-hit wonder. Mentored by...