Jazzwise

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.

The June issue of Jazzwise features an exclusive and outspoken cover feature interview with US sax star Branford Marsalis talking about his storming debut album for Blue Note, Belonging. The album features his Quartet who rework the classic 1974 Keith Jarrett album of the same name – the original featuring Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’ with Jan Garbarek – with inspired performances from Marsalis and his band. 

 

Also inside are in-depth interviews with US clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen, UK improv piano maestro Pat Thomas, top American pianist Gerald Clayton plus an exclusive feature from acclaimed jazz writer Val Wilmer on legendary Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece who signed to Blue Note in the 1950s and even impressed Miles Davis! And top US guitarist Mary Halvorson also reveals her life changing ‘Turning Point’ album is a cult classic by Robert Wyatt.

 

All this plus Taking Off features on trumpeter Jackson Mathod and saxophonist Tom Smith; saxophonist Josephine Davies talking about her life in music in The Player; bassist Shez Raja chooses the albums he can’t live without in Takes Five, plus all the essential new, reissue and archival albums assessed and rated in the UK’s biggest jazz reviews section.