The UK’s new jazz scene has had another barnstorming year with the likes of Cassie Kinoshi’s SEED Ensemble receiving a Mercury Prize nomination and all-star seven piece Nérija making waves with their appearance on Later… with Jools Holland, and with many bands tearing it up at festivals at home and abroad. With the likes of Steam Down and KOKOROKO set to release albums in 2020, here’s 10 of the best from the last year to get you going…
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the December 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring Chick Corea, Jan Garbarek, Krokofant, Bill Bruford, e.s.t and Charles Lloyd
The ultimate guide to the year's best new jazz albums as voted for by Jazzwise's peerless panel of reviewers – including the complete original Jazzwise reviews
Our pick of the best new releases and reissues reviewed in the November 2019 issue of Jazzwise. Featuring John Coltrane, Yazz Ahmed, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lee Morgan, Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano
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
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
The saxophonist chooses the five albums that are indispensable
The pianist and composer selects his favourite recordings
It's time to divine the divine, as we ask our crack unit of writers and assorted taste-formers to gaze into their crystal balls and reveal the intel on those artists they think are set to sizzle in 2019.
