Jazzwise

Jazzwise, launched in 1997, is the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly magazine, also available online.
20 articles
List of articles in the library
Miles Davis, Tony Williams: Tony Williams: Tribute to Tony
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, April 1997
Tony Williams' sudden death in February has deprived us of one of our foremost drummers. Jon Newey pays tribute to a musical master ...
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 ...
Little Feat: Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, January 2001
FOLLOW A CURVED PATH from Steely Dan to the Meters and at a point midway through the arc you'll stumble into the big tracks of ...
Alphonso Johnson: The Alphonso Johnson Collection (Connoisseur)
Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2001
BASSIST Alphonso Johnson always stood in the huge shadows of Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke back when jazz-rock groups strode the planet in the mid ...
Albert Ayler: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, October 2003
Albert Ayler (tf/ts); Mary Marta Parks (v/ss); Call Cobbs (p); Steve Tlntwetss (b); A Pen Biairman (d). Rec. 25 and 27 July 1970 ...
Report by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2005
Jazz gets a life on the ocean waves. ...
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia: Spirit of The Dead
Retrospective by Ken Hunt, Jazzwise, August 2005
Ken Hunt looks back at the life, music and jazz influences of Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead who died 10 years ago this month ...
Soft Machine: Graham Bennett: Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous (SAF Publishing)
Book Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2006
HOT ON THE HEELS of Sony's recent two CD anthology, also titled Out-Bloody- Rageous, Robert Wyatt's Mojo Lifetime Award and a growing reappraisal of its ...
Jeff Beck: Ronnie Scott’s, London
Live Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, 28 November 2007
LOOKING BARELY a day older than his classic mid-1970s album covers — all scarecrow black hair, Red Indian necklace, sleeveless T-shirt and toned biceps — ...
Jeff Beck: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2008
LOOKING BARELY a day older than his classic mid-1970s album covers — all scarecrow black hair, Red Indian necklace, sleeveless T-shirt and toned biceps — ...
Book Review by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2008
FOR A BOOK that takes a very protracted look at the role played by rock music and its, mostly, over-paid and over-pampered stars in the ...
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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