Introducing the 2023 EFG London Jazz Festival
This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival brings a huge range of global stars to the capital. Alyn Shipton spoke to its director Pelin Opcin to get the low down on the event’s panoramic vision of jazz today
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Wayne Shorter’s final interview: “Through struggle and chaos, we find the elements for survival”
Late last year, renowned writer-photographer Michael Jackson spoke to Wayne Shorter at length, resulting in one of the great saxophonist’s last-ever interviews
Canadian Jazz Collective: analogue aces come up trumps!
The Canadian Jazz Collective have been delighting audiences across Europe and their homeland with their sizzling live shows and a splendid debut album. Kevin Whitlock speaks to the three principals
Zoe Rahman interview: “I wanted to do music for a large ensemble, just to show my music in a different light”
With the release of Colour Of Sound, her most expansive album to date, Zoe Rahman tells Kevin Le Gendre about how the music was forged from the whole spectrum of human experience. Photography by Ilze Kitshoff
Marcus Miller interview: “It was incredible to travel with Miles, and see the effect he had on people all around the world”
The bassist extraordinaire speaks to Stuart Nicholson about making music with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr, Frank Sinatra and countless others
Life-changing recordings: Mica Millar chooses ‘Steve Wonder’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2’
Mica Millar, one of the UK’s most acclaimed new vocalists, tells Brian Glasser how a Stevie Wonder compilation given to her as a child helped her become a singer
Ten years of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival: “It’s a meeting of different tribes”
Ahead of the 10th Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Nick Hasted speaks to its founder Ciro Romano to discover the secret of the event’s success
Stanley Clarke interview: “What you wanna retire for? Think of all the jazz musicians that have come before me that played until the last note”
A towering figure in the bass world since he burst onto the global jazz scene in 1970s as a founding member of Return To Forever and with his classic solo album School Days, Stanley Clarke is now back with a new band of Young Turks, N 4EVER
Mette Henriette: Taking Off
Saxophonist Mette Henriette is one of the most intriguing artists on the ECM roster, a musician of ambition and vision