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Jazzwise

Jazzwise, launched in 1997, is the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly magazine, also available online.

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Steely Dan and Jazz

Interview by Chris Ingham, Jazzwise, December 2000

WAITING FOR Walter Becker and Donald Fagen AKA Steely Dan in their publicist’s New York office, I spot two mouth-wateringly opulent 24 CD sets of ...

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 ...

GoGo Penguin: v2.0

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 ...

All at sea: Jazz Party at Sea

Report by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2005

Jazz gets a life on the ocean waves. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miles Davis: Miles Ahead

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Doggett: There's a Riot Going On – Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of 1960s Counter-Culture

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Jazz on film: Play Misty for Me

Retrospective by John L. Walters, Jazzwise, July 2001

Jazz DJs don't always get in the hot water Dave Garver lands in during Play Misty For Me, says John L. Walters. ...

Jazz At The Movies: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Special Feature by John L. Walters, Jazzwise, November 2001

JAZZ IS CRUCIAL to Sweet Smell of Success, the extraordinary and intense film drama made by British director Alexander MacKendrick in 1957.  ...

Collective inspiration

Report by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, February 2003

Jon Newey reports from New York on a celebration of 25 years of New York’s legendary jazz drum and bass school, the Collective, and its ...

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