Features

Women In Jazz: The Artists You Need To Know

• Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Jazzwise has gathered together interviews with some of trailblazing artists we’ve featured in the magazine in recent years including Maria Schneider, Nubya Garcia, Liane Carroll, Terri Lyne Carrington and many more. Every one of these musicians has something unique to say through their music and are part of Jazzwise’s new Women In Jazz homepage that will continue to be updated and expanded as more features are published in the coming months and years

Courtney Pine Ep29: Original sounds from Jazz Is Dead and inspirational Northern Lights from Norway

• Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Courtney Pine chooses tracks from Samara Joy, Wasafiri and Oscar Peterson for his Global podcast (a Jazzwise Media Partner)

Editor's Choice: March 2023 | The best new jazz albums

• Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Introducing new albums from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Joe Chambers, Eliane Elias, Mette Henriette and more

Courtney Pine Ep28 Bitesize Edition: Brand new Headhunters, Swiss grooves and Vinnie the Cow!

• Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Courtney Pine selects some essential new jazz tracks in this short, bite-sized edition of his Global jazz podcast (a Jazzwise Media Partner)

Courtney Pine Ep27: Mercury prize nominated Synth and Sax, a beautiful new album produced by Terri-Lyne Carrington and some all star world-folk grooves!

• Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Courtney Pine selects some essential new jazz tracks from Steve Turre, Robert Mitchell & True Think, Colectiva, The Comet Is Coming for his Global podcast (a Jazzwise Media Partner)

Why Albert Ayler's creative spirit still comes roaring out of the speakers more than 50 years after his untimely death

• Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Albert Ayler was a progenitor of free and spiritual jazz, an innovator whose influence on the music is profound. Stuart Nicholson assesses his career and the complex personality that shaped his singular sound

Courtney Pine Ep26: Cuban maestros, UK Jazz Royalty & James Taylor sings Leonard Cohen

• Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Courtney Pine selects some essential new jazz tracks from Ted Kooshian, Leon Dorsey & Mike Clark, Neil Swainson, Jared Schonig and Butcher Brown for his Global podcast (a Jazzwise Media Partner)

Camilla George interview: “You have to find hope in adversity, because if you don’t, you can’t learn anything, and we don’t grow”

• Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Camilla George opens up about the harsh realities touring today and the dark histories behind her joyous-sounding new album

Henry Threadgill interview: “Yes, I do want to change… I don’t see any reason to go backwards”

• Wednesday, January 11, 2023

American composer, saxophonist and flautist Henry Threadgill is a true giant of post-war jazz, marrying poetry and writing with music to create a unique vision; and as a founding member of Chicago’s AACM he’s been in the vanguard of progressive music for the past six decades

Billie Holiday: the highs and lows of Lady Day

• Monday, January 2, 2023

Billie Holiday left an extraordinary legacy and made an indelible impression on the cultural landscape. Yet the raw emotional pull of her music was the result of a desperately chaotic lifestyle that the singer seemed unable to control. Stuart Nicholson details the highs and lows of Lady Day's life