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

Samara Joy, Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves Coltrane Celebration for EFG London Jazz Festival 2026

Jazz FM Awards 2026 Winners Announced

Cheltenham Jazz Festival unveils extensive Freestage Programme

Editor’s Note

Public Voting Opens for 2026 Parliamentary Jazz Awards

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

EDDIE GRIPPER TAKES 5 • The pianist and composer selects the albums he can’t live without

Courtney Pine, Darius Brubeck and Laura Jurd, for Buxton International Festival 2026 Programme

60 YEARS AGO… THAD JONES/MEL LEWIS

One Jazz to broadcast 48-hour Miles Davis centenary tribute

Mega British jazz orchestra for Jazz At Messums in Wiltshire on 2 May

The Brighton Festival celebrates Mingus’s The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady

Gilmore announces 2026 festival that brings together classical and jazz piano stars

Charting the Jazz Message/May 2026 • The Jazzwise Chart

Mike Westbrook: 21/03/1936 – 11/04/2026

JAZZIN’ TIME AT MELODY MAKER • Former Melody Maker scribe Chris Welch relives his memories of those happy days when legendary jazz men as well as pop and rock stars popped into the music paper’s editorial office in search of tea, snacks and hopefully an in-depth interview. But what did Ornette Coleman make of corned beef sandwiches? Now read on…

WILD WEST NIGHTS • Three decades on, Cheltenham Jazz Festival continues to grow, evolving to reach a wider audience while celebrating jazz in all its forms. Tony Benjamin spoke to programmers Ian George and Alex Carr about balancing creativity and commerciality – and their plans for marking 30 years of getting it right…

From Death Metal To Django • A chance meeting with gypsy jazz guitar legend Gary Potter was to change budding metalhead six-stringer Will Barnes’ music forever. Peter Jones discovers how this unconventional career path has now led to his impressive nature-inspired album Outside The Light

Jazz With A Capital K • As the return of K-pop stars BTS makes headlines around the world, a prodigiously talented young band, SM Jazz Trio, are taking the music into a new realm of jazz sophistication. Adam Davidson caught up with band in their native Seoul to find out more

APPETITE FOR DECONSTRUCTION • When Miles Davis and his Second Great Quintet took the stage at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel in December 1965, no one realised they were witnessing some of the finest work of the trumpeter’s career. Stuart Nicholson explains why these landmark sessions deconstructed jazz standards with a freedom and creativity that remain breathtaking today and looks at where Miles turned next

Symphony in Blue • Trumpeter and arranger Guy Barker is transforming Miles Davis’s iconic album Kind of Blue into a symphonic spectacular for Cheltenham Jazz Festival, celebrating what would have been the jazz legend’s 100th birthday. Alyn Shipton joins Guy behind the scenes to explore how this mostly improvised masterpiece is reborn as sweeping, cinematic music

Much Ado, About Kind of Blue • Trumpeter Jay Phelps and actor Benjamin Akintuyosi have brought the story of how Miles Davis created Kind of Blue to the...