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Jazzwise
Joshua Redman Super-Band, Rob Luft and China Moses added to EFG London Jazz Fest
Go west! Kinch, Cherise and Millar head for Ealing
Rahman, Rawicz and Crosby line up for Brecon Jazz Fest 40
Editor’s Note
Brit-Jazz 45s series unites new bands with old tunes for new 7” vinyl singles
Aussie upstarts Brekky Boy to fly in for debut UK live dates
Matana Roberts announces new LP Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden… and UK concerts
BACK IN THE DAY…
FUTURE MOVERS • Highlighting serious talent now bubbling under the radar….
Polly Gibbons TAKES 5 • The vocalist selects the five albums she can’t live without
Freestone and Mick return with Make One Little Room An Everywhere
70 YEARS AGO – Bud Powell
Verve to release Nina Simone’s 1966 Newport live recording for the first time on CD and LP
Randy Brecker and top UK names for Scarborough 20th anniversary Jazz Festival
NEWS IN ● BRIEF
Swinging to Swiss Time • Selwyn Harris looks at an enthralling new documentary mini-series on the legendary line-ups of the storied Montreux Jazz Festival
Charting the Jazz Message/August 2023
Blue Note teams up with Third Man Records for Detroit-themed LP series
International Anthem to release Jaimie Branch’s final album in August
Max Roach’s classic 1968 Members… LP gets wider issue
HARRIS PIANO JAZZ BAR • MARTIN LONGLEY visits the enigmatically-named Harris Piano Jazz Bar, an oasis of jazz in Kraków, Poland
Peter Brötzmann: 06/3/1941 – 22/6/2023
Astrud Gilberto: 29/3/1940 – 5/6/2023
Turn up the quiet • Eddie Myer talks to Tom Ollendorff, a rising star whose modest demeanor disguises fearsome talent and ambition
Groover and shaker • Bassist, impresario, activist… Marianne Windham is a woman of many, many talents. Peter Vacher hears her story
MUSIC IN COLOUR • With a string of awards and critically-acclaimed albums to her name, pianist Zoe Rahman has earned a place at the forefront of the UK jazz scene. With the release of Colour Of Sound, her most expansive album to date, she tells Kevin Le Gendre about how the music was forged from the whole spectrum of human experience
OPENING the GATEWAY • The news that a lost recording of two of jazz’s giants from 1961 is the stuff that music lovers dream of – especially when those titans are John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. And these revelatory recordings of two friends in full flight reveal a fascinating side to their playing and personalities, as Stuart Nicholson explains.
KEEP ON MOVIN’ • Adopt, adapt, evolve and most of all, don’t stand still – sage advice from London-based trumpeter Jay Phelps to young musicians. Jane Cornwell is all ears
CALL COBBS AND HIS USP (A UNIQUE KEYBOARD JOURNEY) • Harpsichord in jazz? What a crazy idea, said people when Albert Ayler recorded with this eighteenth-century instrument. But whose idea was it? And who was Ayler's influential Harlem friend? VAL WILMER has the answers – and the photographs
“It’s the commitment to the moment, and the spirit, the energy, the passion…” • American drummer Mark Guiliana tells Brian Glasser about how an encounter with a classic Coltrane album set him on the path to jazz glory
Albums: New Releases • The...