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

Shabaka/Camilla George for 20 Years of Take Five, Mulatu Astatke and more added to EFG London Jazz Fest line-up

Emma Rawicz Jazz Orchestra, Oscar Peterson @ 100 and Simon Spillett’s Tubby Hayes Big Band announced for Scarborough Jazz Fest 2025

The Exu, Maddy Coombs, Tomorrow’s Warriors among those booked for Lancaster Jazz Fest

Editor’s Note

Brand New Heavies, Mark Kavuma, and the Hot 8 Brass Band heat up Ealing 25 lineup

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

Chet gets New Land box set treatment

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

COLIN STEELE TAKES 5 • The Scottish trumpeter selects the albums he can’t live without

Discus hits 200, not out!

105 YEARS AGO… MAMIE SMITH

Soweto Kinch swings into Sunderland for a 'Round Midnight BBC Prom

Jay Phelps blows up Edinburgh Fringe with MILES theatre show

David Mrakpor and Rod Youngs lead names for High Tide 2025 fest in Twickenham

Charting the Jazz Message/August 2025

Louis Moholo-Moholo: 10/03/40 – 13/06/2025

Dill Katz: 12/01/1946 – 13/06/2025

REVISITING THE BOP SHOP! • Simon Spillett tells the story of Ronnie Scott’s now-forgotten 1960s Soho music store (Photos courtesy Simon Spillett)

Raphael ‘Ray’ Blue: 17/08/1950 – 21/05/2025

“We are all there to have the artist’s back” • Robert Horsfall is a vastly experienced music lawyer and head of specialist law firm, Sound Advice, whose clients include Snarky Puppy and GoGo Penguin among many others. Mike Flynn speaks to the legal eagle on how to navigate the legalities of music making today

A bout de Souffle(s) • Naïssam Jalal’s latest album Souffles has been winning new admirers for the French-Syrian flautist. She talks to long-time fan Gail Tasker to take a journey into her musical and personal roots

Surrender your senses • With an acclaimed debut album and some stellar live shows under his belt, American singer Tyreek McDole looks to be 2025’s breakout jazz star. Ahead of McDole’s Ronnie Scott’s debut in late July, Peter Quinn finds that there’s real substance behind the hype

Wild AT HEART • Kurt Elling has been on a roll for the last half-decade, with a Grammy for 2024’s Secrets Are The Best Stories, and acclaim for his SuperBlue and Wildflowers albums. Things are about to go up a gear with the third instalment of the Wildflowers project, an EFG London Jazz Festival show with the Yellowjackets and a swinging new album with the WDR Big Band. Peter Quinn caught up with the vocalist to find out more about this whirlwind of creativity

HARP OF GOLD • Brandee Younger is one of a new, younger generation of female jazz harpists, building on the legacy of Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. With her latest album Gadabout Season winning critical and audience plaudits, Jane Cornwell thinks it’s time for this genre-bending musician to take the spotlight….

SONGS FOR A TAYLOR • Pianist Mike Taylor’s legacy is etched in the lore of the Golden Age of British Jazz, the size of his talent matched only by the mystery surrounding his death at the age of 30, when he was found drowned in Leigh Creek, Southend. As his two epochal albums are reissued on vinyl, Stuart Nicholson opens up the case files of this tragic...