Over the last ten years Jazzwise has become the biggest-selling jazz magazine in Britain. In fact, it now outsells all the other UK jazz magazines put together. With agenda-setting news and comment, a comprehensive gig guide, in-depth features, exclusive interviews and over 100 CDs, books and DVDs reviewed in each issue it offers an excellent companion for music students with ambitions to perfect their instrument.

Jazzwise magazine’s October issue is a special 300th edition celebrating women in jazz past and present with iconic jazz harpist Alice Coltrane on the cover, plus an in-depth feature on her life and legacy inside. Also in the issue are features on leading female musicians including interviews with Terri Lyne Carrington, Nubya Garcia, Alice Zawadzki, Georgia Mancio and Cyrille Aimée plus renowned jazz writer Val Wilmer tells the remarkable story of East End jazz singer Maxine Daniels, an early pioneer of black British jazz. 

This special issue also includes an interview with leading German saxophonist Fabia Mantwill about her way into jazz in The Player; top French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf selects the albums he can’t live without in Takes Five; fast rising Mongolian jazz singer Enji is the Taking Off name to watch out for this month and there’s a look at the extraordinary life and music of jazz harp innovator Dorothy Ashby.

All this plus the UK’s most extensive jazz album reviews section, news and gig guide.