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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Georgia Cécile, Fergus McCreadie and Gondwana Records night for Brighton Dome

Jacob Collier, The Roots, Daniel Casimir Big Band and more added to Love Supreme line-up

Unreleased Ella Fitzgerald 1967 concert to be released this month

Editor’s Note

HOT BOX – SCORCHING NEW RELEASES FROM THE JAZZWISE INBOX

BACK IN THE DAY… • Busy Bill blows into London

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

JIM MULLEN TAKES 5 • The Scottish guitar legend shares the albums he can’t live without

Cohen, Sco, Stigers, Elias and Neset booked for March madness at Ronnie Scott’s

85 YEARS AGO – DUKE ELLINGTON

Diverse Jazzahead! programme seeks to ‘Transcend All Borders’ plus UK jazz showcase added to club nights

Mack Avenue partners with Strata-East ahead of Candid merger

Garland, Delmar and Kavuma get Watford Jazz Junction jumping

Charting the Jazz Message/March 2025

Martin Hummel: 02/02/1955 – 10/01/2025

Héloïse Werner gets wayward at the Wigmore

JOYOUS ENCOUNTERS • This month our US-based scribe Michael Jackson travels to Maureen’s Jazz Cellar in Nyack, New York to soak up the atmosphere and celebrate Judi Silvano’s birthday alongside her husband Joe Lovano…

What the Ek? • Musicians have been increasingly dancing to Spotify’s tune, with major labels focusing on streaming numbers (and followers) as the ultimate measure of success. Yet, as Stuart Nicholson explains, the platform has been gaming the rules and faking some of its most streamed artists…

I SHOULD KOKO…! JAZZ FM AWARDS HEAD TO NEW VENUE • Mike Flynn catches up with Jazz FM Content Director Nick Pitts to find out more about the return of the station’s prestigious Awards on 24 April, and some exciting changes to its Saturday night schedule

Traditionally Modern • Peter Vacher speaks to Hungarian pianist Matyas Gayer, whose deft mixing of contemporary and ‘trad’ strands of jazz is gaining him attention and plaudits

Let that bass kick! • The buzz is building about Geordie jazzers KNATS – a quintet fueled by rhythm section buddies Stan Woodward and King David Ike Elechi. Channeling 1970s fusion with a drum 'n' bass twist, the bassist and drummer, together with trumpeter Ferg Kilsby, speak to Eddie Myer about jazz-punk energy and their debut album on Gearbox

Get Carter! • Ron Carter’s bass playing has soundtracked almost 70 years of jazz history, from Miles Davis’ totemic ESP and Plugged Nickel albums, being the low-end bedrock of the CTI label to perfecting his bass tone with Rudy Van Gelder – as the go-to bassist his discography encompasses more than 2,200 recording sessions. Stuart Nicholson spoke to the bass legend about his extraordinary career and his new LP with the talented Arbenz twins

Hold on to Paradise • While Yazz Ahmed has won plaudits for her work as a musician and composer, the breadth of her achievements over the past 15 years has perhaps obscured the personal story behind her music. Ammar Kalia speaks to the British-Bahrani trumpeter/composer to discover how her new album, A Paradise In The Hold, puts her family roots back at the heart of the narrative, and reveals the new riches added to her sound

BEAUTY AMOUNG RUINS • One of the most...