EDDIE TAYLOR: 12/02/1929 – 20/12/2022
- Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Peter Vacher pays tribute to the veteran drummer who was hailed by ‘Humph’s best-ever drummer’, who has died aged 93
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ALAN BATES: 26/08/1925 – 30/01/2023
- Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Brian Priestley remembers the influential and important record producer and label boss Alan Bates who has died
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lakecia Benjamin and Samara Joy for Jazz Café Nights
- Thursday, February 2, 2023
Camden’s Jazz Café has a busy spring schedule of diverse bookings, spanning vocalists, electro-jazz and widely hailed instrumentalists
Julian Siegel takes Tales from the Jacquard on tour
- Friday, January 27, 2023
BBC Jazz Award winning saxophonist embarks on a major UK tour in February 2023 with the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra celebrating his acclaimed album Tales from the Jacquard (Whirlwind Recordings)
Ben Castle and the Blah Street Band release ‘Cut Loose – A Lesson in Jazz’, featuring Matt Berry – watch the official video
- Friday, January 27, 2023
What is jazz? Renowned saxophonist Ben Castle and the inimitable Matt Berry try to answer this eternal question with a tongue-in-cheek and danceably, swinging big band jazz track
Cécile McLorin Salvant returns with new album Mélusine
- Thursday, January 26, 2023
The multi-Grammy Award winning singer and double Jazzwise Album of The Year Critics Poll winner, Cécile McLorin Salvant is set to follow the huge critical acclaim of 2022’s Ghost Song with her new album, Mélusine, released on 24 March via Nonesuch
Watch: interview with director Damien Chazelle about his new jazz-inspired film, Babylon
- Monday, January 23, 2023
In an exclusive extract of an up-coming feature interview, Jazzwise writer Selwyn Harris spoke to Babylon film director Damien Chazelle
David Crosby: 14/8/1941 – 18/1/2023
- Friday, January 20, 2023
One of the most inspired, enigmatic and outspoken singer songwriters of the past half-century, David Crosby, who existed at the deep intersection of folk, jazz and rock, has died age 81 on Wednesday 18 January
Introducing the February 2023 issue of Jazzwise, featuring Lakecia Benjamin
- Thursday, January 19, 2023
The February issue includes revealing interviews Lakecia Benjamin, Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock, Tim Garland and Jason Rebello, and Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Dave Okumu and more release Miles Davis-inspired London Brew LP
- Thursday, January 19, 2023
A new album inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and performed by a collective of UK jazz luminaries, under the name London Brew, will be released on 31 March