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Jazzwise is a British monthly magazine focused on jazz, launched in 1997. [1] The magazine covers a range of jazz sub-genres and provides news coverage, a national gig guide, a jazz-on-film page, feature articles, and a review section that evaluates new musical releases, DVDs , books, and live performances.
Jazzwise Education ran the Jazzwise Summer School nearly every year from 1984 to 2011. The course was originally located at Goldsmiths' College, but moved to Richmond in 1995. The Director of the Jazzwise Summer School was the noted US jazz educator Jamey Aebersold, and the teaching faculty included around twenty prominent US and UK jazz ...
Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music.He is deputy editor of Echoes magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including Jazzwise, MusicWeek, Vibrations, The Independent On Sunday and The Guardian, and is a contributor to such radio programmes as BBC Radio 3's J to Z and BBC Radio 4's Front Row. [1]
Stuart Nicholson of Jazzwise stated that the musicians' "combined power captures the spirit of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, with McLaughlin making the hairs on the back of your neck well and truly stand to attention. Comparisons between then and now miss the point, it's clear McLaughlin wanted to exit the international touring circuit ...
Phronesis is a jazz trio, formed in 2005 by Danish bass player Jasper Høiby.The piano trio is completed by British pianist Ivo Neame and Swedish drummer Anton Eger.Phronesis have been described by Jazzwise magazine as "the most exciting and imaginative piano trio since e.s.t. - Esbjörn Svensson Trio". [1]
In a review for Jazzwise, Edwin Pouncey wrote that, on the album, "the hard-edged urban blast of 1960s modern jazz is replaced with a more meditational organic music groove where the assembled players become sonically entwined. Here vocal chant and percussion are utilised to form densely patterned layers of undulating rhythm."
Croker was born July 18, 1985, in Leesburg, Florida, and is the second son of William Henry Croker, a civil rights activist, high school principal, and farmer, and Alicia Cheatham, a guidance counselor, and daughter of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Doc Cheatham.
Brian Priestley of Jazzwise wrote: "The excitement of the performance communicates to the audience (and vice versa), while the intensity of the mostly long tracks ensures that you don’t notice the length." [5] Mike Jurkovic of All About Jazz noted: "McBride needs no further introduction save to say he has heightened fun into an art form. His ...