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Val Wilmer – My Mother, Her Kitchen Table And Jazz

Renowned jazz writer and photographer Val Wilmer takes a look back to a golden time when quiet domesticity gave way to artistic ambitions, a period when her mother's south London home played host to a procession of great musically-minded names, from Charles Mingus and Memphis Slim to Anthony Braxton and Jesse Fuller This is an extract from Jazzwise Issue #227 – to read the full article click here to Subscribe, save money and get a fantastic jazz CD FREE.

Julian Siegel Quartet – Partisan Punk and Swing

Following a fertile 2017 which saw him take his ambitious big-band project out on the road, culminating in a performance at Ronnie Scott's for Jazzwise's 20th Anniversary celebrations, Julian Siegel returns with his propulsive Quartet and their second album, Vista, arguably the saxophonist's most accomplished studio set to date.

John Surman – Enduring Love

Maintaining a delicate balancing act poised between preservation of old relationships and investment in new projects, revered reedsman and composer John Surman remains a potent force for disparate sonic adventure.

Roswell Rudd – Soul Elevation

Despite battling with illlness, master trombonist Roswell Rudd remained passionately committed to making music to the end.

Elliot Galvin – Spy Games

Pianist Elliot Galvin's latest album, The Influencing Machine, finds the pianist focused on the life of an 18th century double-agent who suffered from paranoid delusions about an airborne automated oppressor.

The shape of jazz to come: who to look out for in 2018

Photo: Rohey It’s time to divine the divine, as we ask our crack unit of writers and assorted other taste-formers to gaze into their crystal balls and reveal the intel on those artists they think are set to sizzle in 2018 Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise, Echoes, BBC Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up The young Guadeloupian drummer Arnauld Dolmen is a very exciting prospect.

Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2017

In another turbulent year of head-spinning change, much of it unwelcome, jazz has once again proved itself as resilient and inspirational as ever.

Jazz re:freshed - Engines of Creation

Jazz re:freshed has come a long way from the organisation's humble beginnings at its monthly residency in west London to this year setting the international music scene buzzing with a showcase of emerging UK jazz stars at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

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