Introducing the June issue of Jazzwise, featuring Branford Marsalis

The June issue of Jazzwise features an exclusive and outspoken cover feature interview with US sax star Branford Marsalis talking about his storming debut album for Blue Note, Belonging. The album features his Quartet who rework the classic 1974 Keith Jarrett album of the same name – the original featuring Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’ with Jan Garbarek – with inspired performances from Marsalis and his band. 

Also inside are in-depth interviews with US clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen, UK improv piano maestro Pat Thomas, top American pianist Gerald Clayton plus an exclusive feature from acclaimed jazz writer Val Wilmer on legendary Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece who signed to Blue Note in the 1950s and even impressed Miles Davis! And leading US guitarist Mary Halvorson also reveals her life changing ‘Turning Point’ album is a cult classic by Robert Wyatt.

All this plus Taking Off features on trumpeter Jackson Mathod and saxophonist Tom Smith; saxophonist Josephine Davies talking about her life in music in The Player; bassist Shez Raja chooses the albums he can’t live without in Takes Five, plus all the essential new, reissue and archival albums assessed and rated in the UK’s biggest jazz reviews section.

All this plus the UK’s biggest album reviews, news and gig guide…

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