Jazzwise

Jazzwise, launched in 1997, is the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly magazine, also available online.
11 articles
One nation underground: ESP Disk
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, March 2000
What record company these days would dare print "the Artists Alone Decide What You Will Hear" on their album sleeves. Well ESP Disk did in ...
Charlie Watts: The Beat Goes On: Charlie Watts and the Great Jazz Drummers
Interview by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, July 2000
Rolling Stone Charlie Watts is not a typical jazz drummer. His previous solo albums have touched on the legacy of Charlie Parker and his new ...
Interview by Chris Ingham, Jazzwise, December 2000
WAITING FOR Walter Becker and Donald Fagen AKA Steely Dan in their publicists New York office, I spot two mouth-wateringly opulent 24 CD sets of ...
Report by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2005
Jazz gets a life on the ocean waves. ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Jazzwise, 23 January 2014
MANCHESTER's GoGo Penguin prove, among other things, what a rhythmic gift the drum 'n' bass dance scene, which began in the 1990s, has been to ...
Ginger Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019)
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, December 2019
Pressed rolls and warthog: The life and times of Ginger Baker ...
David Crosby: Long Time Comin'
Interview by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, September 2020
From early 1960s gigs with Terry Callier and having a song covered by Miles Davis to latter-day collaborations with Snarky Puppy and Steely Dan's Donald ...
Retrospective by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, September 2020
Fifty years ago this month Miles Davis played the biggest gig of his career when he brought his groundbreaking Bitches Brew band to the 1970 ...
Baby Face Willett: "Baby Face" Willette: Two Faced To Live, Too Young to Die
Retrospective by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, April 2021
Hammond B3 honcho "Baby Face" Willette kicked off the early 1960s as a promising new Blue Note label signing in the wake of Jimmy Smith's ...
Michael Horovitz OBE (4 April 1935 – 7 July 2021)
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, September 2021
The celebrated British beat poet, writer, artist, 'anglo saxophonist', Michael Horovitz, has died age 86. ...
Charlie Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021)
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, October 2021
The gentleman of rhythm calls time ...
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