Jazzwise

Welcome to the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly. Jazzwise has been at the heart of the global jazz scene since the magazine’s launch in 1997, changing the way jazz publications look and think for the last two decades, with a stunning editorial and design package that reaches out worldwide to both the new jazz audience and established fans – qualities that have led to it winning Jazz Publication of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards and the Jazz FM Awards.

Jazzwise

News • Andy Sheppard Trio, Goldie’s ‘Dare To Dream’, Gerald Clayton Trio and Giannouli/Molvær Duo added to EFG London Jazz Festival 2026

New Gen Jazz and Bands & Voices complete Love Supreme 2026 line-up

Leszek Możdżer and Wojtek Mazolewski for Polish Jazz Festival

Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyshawn Sorey & Pat Thomas, and Ben LaMar Gay line up for 'Project a Black Planet' at the Barbican

Editor’s Note

INCOMING! • – SCORCHING NEW RELEASES LEGGING IT INTO THE JAZZWISE INBOX…

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS

NATALIE WILLIAMS TAKES 5 • The singer and songwriter selects the albums she can't live without

Atlanticus mark 10 years with live album and summer UK tour

65 YEARS AGO… STAN GETZ

Geoffrey Smith: 23/08/1943 – 02/04/2026

Brighton Jazz Co-op looks forward from its 40th anniversary

Renell Shaw Premieres Windrush Suite at Kings Place with All-Star Line-up

Charting the Jazz Message/July 2026

Sonny Rollins: 09/09/1930 – 25/05/2026

PizzaExpress Live Jazz Club celebrates its 50th anniversary with a bang!

Alfa Mist, corto.alto and Secret Night Gang lead jazz presence at WOMAD 2026

Galliano and Banger Factory showcase for Ealing Jazz Fest line-up

Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club launches ‘The Jazz Ladder’ incubator for emerging musicians

THE BALTIC HOUSE THAT JAZZ BUILT… • This month Martin Longley reports back from a burgeoning jazz outpost in northern Europe – the M/Darbnīca (House Of Jazz), in Riga, Latvia – where he finds out how this small venue is already attracting big names

French Vibes, Global Vision • French-born vibraphonist Simon Moullier, now based in New York, has just released his superb sixth album Ceiba. He talks to Peter Jones about simplifying his music, his drumming past, and the mentors who shaped him

Dream Weaver • Guitarist Julien Durand’s band Dreamscapes have forged a distinctive sound that blends post-rock fusion, jazz and Brazilian experimental pop. As his new album Tales of a Wanderer is released, he tells Eddie Myer why he’s turning his back on streaming services, embracing improvisation – and learning to stay up past 3am with a Brazilian legend

STILL CHASING THE URGE WITHIN • As he prepares to headline the Love Supreme Jazz Festival this summer, saxophonist Courtney Pine reflects on four decades of reshaping British jazz – from gatecrashing Ronnie Scott’s as a teenager to fusing reggae, hip-hop and “dark matter” frequencies that move audiences. Jane Cornwell spoke to the multi-reed master about the importance of community music and his enduring onward journey

FAITH AND Freedom • Boundary-pushing collective Empirical return alongside the other two Empiricists on a Zoom video call. with their seventh album, Like Lambs: to the Slaughter, with the core trio of Nathaniel Facey, Tom Farmer and Shane Forbes joined by pianist Ivo Neame and guitarist David Preston. They tell Selwyn Harris how their intense, quasi-biblical suite explores the concepts of independent thought versus blind obedience and their collective faith in music

Eddie Tan Tan, His Trumpet, And Joy From Jamaica • Val Wilmer celebrates the life of Jamaican trumpeter Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton, Caribbean musicians in 1950s Britain, and their strategies for...