Jazzwise
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April 1997
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Over the last ten years Jazzwise has become the biggest-selling jazz magazine in Britain. In fact it now outsells all the other UK jazz magazines put together. With agenda-setting news and comment, a comprehensive gig guide, in-depth features, exclusive interviews and over 100 CDs, books and DVDs reviewed in each issue it’s become widely acknowledged as the monthly music bible for serious music fans.
Regular features include the latest news in the jazz world; CD, book and DVD reviews; a guide to the best gigs and concerts around the country and your letters to the editor.
Latest issue
The November issue of Jazzwise is on sale now and it’s an EFG London Jazz Festival special. Cover stars Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves discuss their stunning tribute to John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman's revered 1963 vocal album, ahead of their headline performance on the closing weekend of the festival.
Other headliners featured this issue include acclaimed alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch selects the albums he can't live without in Takes Five (ahead of his show with the LSO at the Barbican); top US pianist Gerald Clayton reveals the album that changed his musical life in Turning Point (ahead of his show at Cadogan Hall); and renowned Norwegian keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft talks about his life in music in The Player, (ahead of his headline show at the Jazz Café with his all-star trio RYMDEN). There's also an in-depth preview of the must-see shows across the programme, plus highlights from the hundreds of club gigs across the capital during festival week.
Also in the issue are three helpings of Brit jazz greatness: jazz-rock giants Soft Machine discuss their rich and raucous history as the band's current line-up (including guitar icon John Etheridge) mark the group’s 60th anniversary; tenor sax titan Alan Skidmore talks about his life as one of the UK's foremost sax players and his early breakthrough at the Montreux Jazz Festival; and Val Wilmer revisits the heady days of the late 1950s and the fascinating but ill-fated career of a talented drummer named Donald Brown, who worked with Chet Baker, Bud Powell and Alice Coltrane before his career was cut tragically short.
All this, plus an Album Interview with guitar/vocal star George Benson on his swinging tribute to Nat King Cole, a Taking Off on rising clarinet virtuoso Ewan Bleach, and the UK's biggest jazz reviews section, gig guide, live reviews and jazz news.
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- First Issue: April 1997
- Latest Issue: November 2026
- Issue Count: 322
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2052-9775