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

From a Chelsea basement to a cultural landmark: The 606 Club celebrates 50 years with Jamie Cullum, Gwyneth Herbert, Gwilym Simcock and more

Leyburn Jazz Festival returns for sixth edition

Lizz Wright, Fonseca/Segal Duo and Church Of Sound @ 10 added to EFG London Jazz Festival line-up

Editor’s Note

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s four devotional Ashram Tapes to be released in full for the first time

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

BACK IN THE DAY…

FUTURE MOVERS • HIGHLIGHTING SERIOUS TALENT BUBBLING UNDER THE RADAR….

LESZEK MOŻDŻER TAKES 5 • The pianist selects the albums he can’t live without

Louis Stewart’s Joyce Notes suite to be performed for the first time in 30 years by drummer Conor Guilfoyle’s Sextet

70 YEARS AGO… BEN WEBSTER

Plas John Johnson Jr. : 21/07/1931 – 15/07/2026

Bill Laurance, Fergus McCreadie and Dave Holland for bumper Kings Place jazz programme

Charting the Jazz Message/September 2026

ON BROADWAY: THE SWEET SMELL(S) OF JAZZ • This month Val Wilmer retraces her footsteps to Broadway’s forgotten music hub, where the scent of newly-pressed vinyl, pipe smoke and bourbon still linger in her memories of the men – and the music – who shaped a generation

Keeping The Spirit Of Trane Alive • With John Coltrane’s recorded legacy once more in the spotlight, Selwyn Harris highlights the many opportunities to hear Trane’s works performed live in the coming months by a wide variety of top-level bandleaders and ensembles

London Wanderlust • Trumpeter Audrey Powne has made the leap from her native Australia to New York and now London, and is making plenty of waves along the way as both in-demand side person and burgeoning solo artist. With her debut album Bodies of Water now on release, she tells Peter Jones about the highs and lows of her journey so far

Fever Pitch • With her debut album Hayfever and a major UK tour on the horizon, saxophonist Mali Sheard tells Alice Hill about the life-changing power of jazz education, finding her own voice, and the excitement of stepping away from the conservatoire and into the spotlight

Love, Devotion, Surrender – The Many Sides Of John Coltrane • As saxophonist John Coltrane’s centenary arrives on 23 September, the pull and power of his recorded legacy and his immense influence on the very fabric of jazz continues to cast long shadows today. In this exclusive feature, Stuart Nicholson examines how Trane moved from a form of lightning-fast, near quantum harmonic theory, to spiritual modal forms, to attempting to play the unplayable in the last stage of his short but dazzling career, which was cut short in 1967 aged 40

Night Trane To Newcastle all energy, visually compelling and loud. Unsurprisingly • In a career that burned twice as bright but only half as long, John Coltrane made just one excursion to the British Isles, in 1961. Brian Priestley offers a first-hand account of this seismic visit and his memorable night in Newcastle

Stand up and be counted! • With a new album by his band Civil Disobedience, New York bassist David Ambrosio draws on the spirit of 1960s radicalism while investigating little-known tunes from the more progressive and adventurous end of the 1960s Blue Note canon. Daniel...