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

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Shabaka announces new solo album, Of The Earth and London launch concert

Pat Metheny returns with new album and Summer Series 2026 UK shows

Upstairs at Ronnie’s opens with wide-ranging programme

Editor’s Note

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

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

DAVE DOUGLAS TAKES 5 • The trumpeter and label boss explains why he ‘can’t live without’ these albums…

North Sea Jazz Festival marks 50th anniversary with blockbuster line-up

75 YEARS AGO… CHARLIE PARKER

Ralph Towner: 01/03/1940 – 18/01/2026

A Window into Britain’s Musical Heritage

Charting the Jazz Message/March 2026

STOMPIN’ AT THE CARE HOME • Former Melody Maker scribe Chris Welch explores the heartening story of how Jazz Hot & Cool has brought new life to the world of care homes, where residents would sooner listen to Herbie Hancock than Vera Lynn’s greatest hits for their entertainment. He talks to musicians happy to jam for seniors and recalls his own drumming experience – discovering stern critics as well as fans amidst the groovy older generation

Max heart and soul • Making waves with her pure tone, singer Ni Maxine has already scooped a Jazz FM Breakthrough award, while her debut EP reveals the depth of her sound and vision. Victoria Kingham discovers this newcomer’s unconventional path into jazz

Deep Musical Therapy • Hannah Horton is on a mission to bring the baritone sax to the forefront of the jazz scene. Ahead of her new album Stories on the Wind, Tom Spargo discovers more about her unique approach

STILL HOT AT 100 • A century ago, a trumpeter by the name of Louis Armstrong and his bands the Hot Five and Hot Seven revolutionised jazz, incorporating space for soloists, inventing a lexicon of dazzling phrases and popularising wordless vocal scatting. And significantly, as Alyn Shipton details, Armstrong almost singlehandedly shifted jazz into the realms of high art

Why we love Louis…

SAPPHIRES AND BLUE NOTES, RED BEANS AND RICE • Val Wilmer provides hitherto unknown cameos of Louis Armstrong in 1930s Britain

THE ROARING TWENTIES • One hundred years ago, jazz was an integral part of an era of post-World War One cultural change, soundtracking young people’s desire to reject the past and live life in the moment. Stuart Nicholson time-travels back to this seismic period when art, politics, consumerism and dancing collided, and ‘The Jazz Age’ was born

BORN IN 1926

TURNING POINT • Harpist Julie Campiche’s musical life was changed by Changeless, a lesser-known Keith Jarrett live album. Brian Glasser finds out more

Into Mezzo • Grammy-winning Tim Garland has dedicated his new album to the sound of the ultra-rare mezzo soprano saxophone. He speaks to Stuart Nicholson about how this hybrid instrument – and the brilliance of his piano partner Geoffrey Keezer – has forged a singular sonic experience

MANIFESTING MILES • As one of the most adventurous contemporary trumpeters, Theo Croker is set, in Miles Davis’ centenary year, to salute the spirit of the Dark Prince at the Southbank X Montreux collaboration...