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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.

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New Julia Hülsmann Quartet and Keith Jarrett albums for bumper ECM summer-autumn release crop

Newly-discovered Esbjörn Svensson solo piano album to be released this autumn on ACT Music

Editor’s Note

Gary Crosby, Tony Kofi and NYJO to top second Brighton Jazz Festival

Sounds of Denmark, John Etheridge residency and more for refurbished PizzaExpress Jazz Club nights

Claire Martin for Piano Smithfield’s Jazz Greats Series

Art Failure

Ronnie Foster TAKES 5

Andrew McCormack Trio and O’Higgins/Luft among Ubuntu new releases

70 YEARS AGO Oscar Peterson

BRILLIANT CORNERS • Former Melody Maker scribe CHRIS WELCH remembers one of the London’s secret jazz haunts, the Lilliput Hall pub in Bermondsey, where drummer Teddy Pope lived the life – not just on the stage but above the bar…

Charting the Jazz Message/September 2022

NEWS IN ● BRIEF

The Printmakers, Trio HLK and others to play Manc’s Stoller Hall

Kofi kicks it with NYJO for Monk at Town Hall tour

Nicole Mitchell, Alexander Hawkins, Orphy Robinson, Skylla booked for Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music

Frisell, Jones and Porter line up for Blue Note Leonard Cohen tribute

Barbara Thompson (27/07 1944 – 09/072022)

Michael Henderson 07/07/51 - 19/07/22

The One: Roni • Twenty-one-year-old Israeli drum sensation Roni Kaspi is fast becoming the rising star in her field. Fresh from her stellar performance on bassist Avishai Cohen’s new trio album, Selwyn Harris speaks to a drummer with a dazzlingly bright future

Shadows and Light • Keyboardist Jemma Freese’s burgeoning career was almost stopped in its tracks two years ago when she was stuck down by illness. But she’s bounced back and has just released a splendid debut album. Nick Hasted spoke to her

MILES The Second Coming • While the debate over the merits of Miles Davis’ ‘electric’ period of the late 1960s and early 70s is now largely settled, his work in the last decade of his life remains controversial. The release of a new multi-disc set covering the 1982-85 era allows us to reassess the trumpeter’s output during this time, says Stuart Nicholson

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK • Snarky Puppy are about to burst out of hibernation with an epic new ‘live-in-the-studio’ album, Empire Central, and are currently on a world tour that culminates in a headline mega-show at London’s Wembley Arena. Hugh Morris spoke to the band’s founding bassist/bandleader Michael League to discuss how he’s taking large scale instrumental music to new heights

A Little Respect • Recognised as one of the most promising singers of her generation, Emma Smith has forged an impressive reputation as a first-call vocalist for jazz and pop royalty. Now set to release her latest solo album, Meshuga Baby, she tells Peter Quinn how the album honours her Jewish heritage and how she’s had to deal with the misogyny that’s still rife in the jazz world

BASS AT THE HELM • Octogenarian bass hero Henry 'Skipper' Franklin has played with luminaries such as Hugh Masekela, Freddie Hubbard and Archie Shepp, and now he’s releasing a jazz-funk suite for the Jazz Is Dead label. Kevin Le Gendre spoke to the bassist about his...