As the UK's leading jazz monthly Jazzwise brings you the biggest names while also championing new and emerging talent from the heart of the global jazz scene. As well as in-depth interviews with today’s new and established stars, Jazzwise’s team of award-winning journalists look at key figures in jazz history reappraising their work as both a reminder to the familiar and an invaluable introduction to newcomers to this ever changing music.
Some of the amazing artists who have been featured in recent issues include pianist Gwlym Simcock, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, guitarist John Etheridge, saxophonist Iain Ballamy, drummer Rashied Ali, pianist composer Julian Joseph, pianist Robert Glasper, pianist Keith Tippett, singer Claire Martin, composer and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, saxophonist John Surman, a retrospective on bass genius Charles Mingus, guitarist Martin Taylor, jam band/guitar group Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, exciting UK new wave jazz band Led Bib, a tribute to the saxophone giant Michael Brecker, trumpeter Abram Wilson, top composer/arranger Graham Collier, hot new band Fraud, pianist Keith Jarrett, amazing guitar and piano pairing Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau, composer Colin Towns and brilliant saxophonist Branford Marsalis among many, many others.
Listed on the right are samples of each of our top features from the last year’s worth of magazines – to read them in full subscribe for a year and receive a FREE CD – or order back issues with your favourite artists in.
Daring to be different, singer Christine Tobin is set to delve still deeper into the consciousness of her fans and newcomers alike if the arrival of her brand new album Secret Life of a Girl is anything to go by. An emotional and personal stirring, one step beyond her previous album, the dark Romance and Revolution, Tobin on Secret Life inhabits the world of the young characters in the songs, representing different stages of an untold story, an incipient self awareness and maturity. The album is released at a time when her partner and regular musical colleague, guitarist Phil Robson, releases Six Strings and The Beat, a Bartók-infused strings album flavoured by post-modern jazz and African music alike. Stuart Nicholson talks to the pair about the story behind their albums and their quest to follow the road less travelled while long time fan, Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, describes her reactions to that voice. 
Misunderstood in his own lifetime, but in time elevated to the pantheon of composers that make him as relevant today as he was in the heyday of bebop, the totemic presence and music of Thelonious Monk forms the bedrock of a new monumental work by Jason Moran. The pianist, who tours the UK this month, with an Anglo-US band, has taken Monk’s At Town Hall and reimagined it for the jazz of today. Kevin Le Gendre talks to Moran about how he got inside the mind of the one and only Monk.
When Lizz Wright debuted with Salt five years ago it was clear even then that the jazz world had found a new unique talent even if the album was ostensibly a strongly gospel-rooted affair. By the time of her second album Dreaming Wide Awake, when she was on the cover of Jazzwise for the first time, awash with arresting bottleneck backgrounds and intuitive acoustic and jazz-into-folk settings it was clear that new musical directions were being pursued and that she was becoming a significant jazz singer.