Rising jazz artists: who to look out for in 2020
It’s that time again when we ask our crack team of writers, assorted taste-makers and trend-spotters to gaze into their crystal balls and divine the names set to shine in the year ahead
It’s that time again when we ask our crack team of writers, assorted taste-makers and trend-spotters to gaze into their crystal balls and divine the names set to shine in the year ahead
The UK’s new jazz scene has had another barnstorming year with the likes of Cassie Kinoshi’s SEED Ensemble receiving a Mercury Prize nomination and all-star seven piece Nérija making waves with their appearance on Later… with Jools Holland, and with...
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the December 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring Chick Corea, Jan Garbarek, Krokofant, Bill Bruford, e.s.t and Charles Lloyd
The ultimate guide to the year's best new jazz albums as voted for by Jazzwise's peerless panel of reviewers – including the complete original Jazzwise reviews
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the November 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring John Coltrane, Yazz Ahmed, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lee Morgan, Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano
A completely unique pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk was born 102 years ago, in October 1917.
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the October 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring O’Higgins & Luft, Matana Roberts, Rebecca Nash/Atlas, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Enrico Rava
From the wild, small-group jazz of Jelly Roll Morton and Bud Freeman to the birth of big bands and the arrival of Duke Ellington
Hard bop emerged in the 1950s, spearheaded by the likes of Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins, who between them made some outstanding albums that still resonate loudly today
The urge to move away from the over-familiar chord progressions of bop led Charles Mingus and Miles Davis to develop new approaches to harmonic movement, and the recording of some of the greatest albums in the history of music
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