Fiery saxophonist David Murray has previously drawn on the bewitching and poignant prose of authors such as Ishmael Reed and Amiri Baraka in his music, but on his latest album, Blues For Memo, he's collaborated with hip-priest rapper-cum-poet Saul Williams.
With the release of his Still Waters band's Can't Believe, Won't Believe, trumpeter Henry Lowther continues to mine an organically seamless and melodic mix of written and freer elements.
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.
In 2010, Hugh Masekela, the great South African musician and an inspiration in the cultural and political struggle against apartheid, spoke candidly to Jazzwise's Marcus O'Dair about his continued to fight against the exploitation of the poor and the danger big business posed to the future of the planet.
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.
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.
Despite battling with illlness, master trombonist Roswell Rudd remained passionately committed to making music to the end.
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.
Pianist Gwilym Simcock talks about the album that changed his life, 'My Song' by Keith Jarrett.
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.
