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4-14 News Tomorrow’s Warrior’s Jazz Café takeover… Parliamentary Jazz Awards nominees... trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf Takes Five… 16 Grassroots Future? Rosie Hanley looks at the current challenges and opportunities for live jazz 18 Taking Off Mongolian jazz singer Enji is the one to watch this month 19 Return Flight We celebrate the legacy of harp heroine Dorothy Ashby 38-55 Reviews The month's essential new, reissue and archival albums assessed – plus an album interview with saxophonist Nubya Garcia about her new album Odyssey 51 Subscriptions Get the best print and digital deals here 56 Audiophile The 30 best-sounding jazz albums ever… part three! 57 The Player Saxophonist Fabia Mantwill 58 Instrument Reviews 60-61 Live Reviews 62-64 Gig Guide Nationwide live listings 66 Letters Have your say…

20 Alice Coltrane In the ‘Year Of Alice’ we look at the life and influence of this most spiritual of jazz icons

24 The Sisterhood

Speaks Up Leading female figures from different sides of the jazz industry share their experiences and thoughts on what still needs to be done for more gender parity – and why

28 Alice Zawadzki

The singer and violinist talks about the chemistry behind her new trio album with pianist Fred Thomas and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado as they make their debut on ECM

32 Black British Bloodlines Val Wilmer tells the story of East End jazz singer Maxine Daniels

36 Cyrille

Aimée The jazz singer (pictured left) reveals why Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is her

Turning Point

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