The best new jazz albums: March 2022
- Friday, March 4, 2022
The Editor's Choice albums from the March issue of Jazzwise, featuring Melissa Aldana, Binker & Moses, Avishai Cohen, Anna von Hausswolff, Arun Ghosh, Kinetika Bloco and Mattan Klein Quartet
Features
Emma Rawicz: compose me a rainbow
- Thursday, March 3, 2022
The ability to ‘see music in colour’ or ‘see colour in sound’ has a long history among performers and composers. Hugh Morris meets young saxophonist Emma Rawicz, the latest in a distinguished line of jazz synaesthetes
“I sang the whole song in the shower, and then frantically I rushed to find a recording device” | Cécile McLorin Salvant: Mischief and Magic
- Thursday, March 3, 2022
Cécile McLorin Salvant is one of the music’s great communicators. Kevin Le Gendre met her to discuss her album Ghost Song and found the singer in a garrulous but thoughtful mood
‘It’s way more fun for me now, because I play way better now than I used to' | Pat Metheny interview
- Monday, January 31, 2022
Now a true living jazz giant, whose recording and gigging schedule has barely let up, even during the pandemic, legendary guitarist Pat Metheny still finds the time to nurture new young talent – as Stuart Nicholson discovers
The best new jazz albums: February 2022
- Thursday, January 20, 2022
The Editor's Choice albums from the February issue of Jazzwise, featuring Mark Lockheart, Evan Parker, Georgia Cécile, Jane Ira Bloom & Allison Miller
The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2021
- Thursday, November 25, 2021
The votes are in! Featuring outstanding releases from Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Gretchen Parlato, Georgia Mancio, Songs of Kemet, Jaimie Branch and many more...
The Best Jazz Albums of 2021
- Monday, November 22, 2021
Featuring Sons of Kemet, Pat Metheny, Rosie Frater-Taylor, Julian Lage and more, all of these outstanding albums were reviewed in the 2021 issues of Jazzwise and all were selected as Editor's Choice
The best new jazz albums | Editor's Choice: December 2021 / January 2022
- Monday, November 22, 2021
Featuring outstanding new releases from Chick Corea Akoustic Band, Abdullah Ibrahim, Christian McBride and more...
Jack Kerouac and Jazz: “I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday”
- Monday, November 15, 2021
Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' did for literature what Charlie Parker and John Coltrane did for jazz, whipping it up into brave new shapes and forms that challenged the norm and set a generation in motion, writes Keith Shadwick
The Jazzwise Guide to the EFG London Jazz Festival 2021
- Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Interviews with many of the leading artists appearing at this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, including Archie Shepp, Kathrine Windfeld, Avishai Cohen, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more...