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

Tyreek McDole, Olivia Cuttill and more added to EFG London Jazz Fest 2026 line-up

Alan Barnes, Xhosa Cole and Alina Bzhezhinska scoot up to Scarborough Jazz Fest 2026

Tomorrow’s Warriors announces landmark summer season for 35th

Coltrane centenary celebrations include Ascension reissue and UK live celebrations

Editor’s Note

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

JOEY ALEXANDER TAKES 5 • The pianist selects the albums he can’t live without…

James Blood Ulmer: 08/021940 – 03/06/2026

70 YEARS AGO… SHELLY MANNE

Abdullah Ibrahim: 09/10/1934 – 15/06/2026

Charting the Jazz Message/August 2026

Cool For Catford… • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH burrows deep down into his memories of the days when a London Borough Council swung into the realms of jazz festival promotion and brought Art Blakey and Buddy Rich to hordes of rapturously receptive ratepayers.

Alfred Lion • In the first in a new series Brian Priestley tells the story of Alfred Lion – the German émigré who founded Blue Note Records and, alongside a handful of key collaborators, created the quintessential sound of small-group jazz

From Las Vegas to Köln • Selwyn Harris spoke to renowned British director Mike Figgis about his newly restored jazz-scored classic Leaving Las Vegas, and takes in the big screen tale of how Keith Jarrett’s totemic solo piano Köln Concert came into being…

Highland Magus • Nick Hasted spoke to pianist Marco Cafolla about the life-changing impact of Miles Davis’s Live-Evil, his unlikely bond with its spoken-word luminary Conrad Roberts, and the spiritual quest behind Mama Terra’s new album, Inner Space.

On The Paris-London Beat • Explosive young drumming talent Ananda Brandão is making waves on her new stomping ground of London, bringing her mix of French and Brazilian influences into her exciting new project, which as she explains to Eddie Myer, spans complex modern jazz and electronica with white-hot improvisation

Orchestrating Change • Four-time Grammy winning composer Maria Schneider’s new EP, American Crow: A Narrative in Notes and Frames, is a potent musical response to the toxicity of public debate, polarisation and what she terms “curated rage.” Drawing on jazz’s core principle of close listening and collaboration, she spoke to Stuart Nicholson about why she advocates for dialogue over discord

blues for sonny • In this exclusive, previously unpublished interview, Michael Jackson shares his deeply personal recollections of Sonny Rollins, drawn from decades of friendship and a final, poignant conversation with the jazz giant just months before his passing

ORGANICALLY GROWN •  Deirdre Cartwright has had a remarkable career, from her early days bringing deft guitar solos to unsuspecting viewers on BBC’s Rockschool, to her membership of key UK bands such as the Guest Stars and Alison Rayner Quintet. For her latest album, ORGANIK she returns with a stripped-back Organ Trio sound – which, as she tells Tom Spargo, is a love letter to the interplay between rock energy and jazz harmony

POSITIVELY VIBING • With a deep debt to Milt Jackson and a lifetime of eclectic...