As possibly the biggest instrumental band on the planet right now, Snarky Puppy blazed a trail for many of today’s outward looking, forward-thinking jazz musicians. Yet, in spite of their game-changing approach to richly detailed groove music, the critics are still taking aim. Ahead of their UK tour this November, Nick Hasted asked their outspoken bassist and bandleader, Michael League, why it can be tough at the top
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the October 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring O’Higgins & Luft, Matana Roberts, Rebecca Nash/Atlas, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Enrico Rava
From the wild, small-group jazz of Jelly Roll Morton and Bud Freeman to the birth of big bands and the arrival of Duke Ellington
John Sharpe unveils the story behind bassist Barry Guy's Picasso-inspired jazz suite
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the September 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring Anat Cohen, Michael Janisch, Nérija, Stan Getz and Bennie Maupin
Peter Vacher reviews Mark Stryker’s insightful book on the history of the Detroit music scene
The reputation of Tubby Hayes as one of the world’s top tenor saxophonists of the 1950s and 1960s is set to be fully restored with the welcome release of Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969. Stuart Nicholson navigates a recording originally envisaged as a new beginning for Hayes, which was committed to tape following one of the most turbulent periods in the musician’s life
Brian Priestley delves between the notes of Bob Crosby’s ‘South Rampart Street Parade’ (1937)
The saxophonist chooses the five albums that are indispensable
London’s burgeoning new breed of genre-blind, rhythmically direct jazz musicians has been attracting youthful, multi-cultural audiences not seen in the UK for a generation, pioneering a radical and overdue shift in perception.
