Jazzwise

Over the last ten years Jazzwise has become the biggest-selling jazz magazine in Britain. In fact it now outsells all the other UK jazz magazines put together. With agenda-setting news and comment, a comprehensive gig guide, in-depth features, exclusive interviews and over 100 CDs, books and DVDs reviewed in each issue it’s become widely acknowledged as the monthly music bible for serious music fans.

Regular features include the latest news in the jazz world; CD, book and DVD reviews; a guide to the best gigs and concerts around the country and your letters to the editor.

The November issue of Jazzwise is an EFG London Jazz Festivalspecial issue and includes an exclusive cover feature with jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny. He plays two nights at the start of the festival performing songs from his new solo album MoonDial. 

 

Other headliners interviewed in the issue include renowned pianist Neil Cowley, rising Greek piano prodigy Tania Giannouli and trumpeter Mark Kavuma reveals the album that changed his musical life in Turning Point. There’s an interview with festival programmer Pelin Opcin who selects some programme highlights from the staggering 350-plus gigs, and there’s also a peak into the newly refurbished Ronnie Scott’s as it gears up for its festival week.

 

Also in the issue is a special extended archival feature on baritone sax boss Gerry Mulligan, a superstar of the US West Coast jazz scene who worked with both Chet Baker and Dave Brubeck – there’s also a frank and fascinating Lost Interview with Mulligan himself by writer Roy Carr. And Mercury-nominated multi-instrumentalist Liam Shortall, a.k.a. corto.alto, selects the albums he can’t live without in Takes Five – and Blue Note-signed alto-sax ace Immanuel Wilkinstalks about his latest release, Blues Blood.