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Welcome to Echoes!

We are the UK’s foremost monthly magazine covering soul, jazz, reggae, R&B and hip-hop.
What’s more, we’ve been here since January 1976 – a whole half century of informed and opinionated black music journalism

Our print platform remains our flagship enterprise – you can buy it in most good newsagents or right here on this site and have it delivered direct to your door – but we also publish a fine online, flippy version for those who need instant digital access.

Do join us for the most expert and opinionated coverage of black music old and new you can find anywhere.

Chris Wells [Editor]

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    Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba Thursday 20 March 2014, Union Chapel, 19:30 Tickets £22 barbican.org.uk. Grammy Award nominated ngoni...

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    Billed as the ‘Giants of Funk Soul Boogie & Jazz’ the already intriguing coming together of Glenn Jones, Steve...

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  • Sweet Ambrosius

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  • If You Knew Zara

    Gifted young jazz vocalist and songwriter Zara McFarlane will drop her second album, titled If You Knew Her, on...

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  • May Days

    Chris Wells talks to Texan jazz and soul artist Tatiana ‘Lady May’ Mayfield, whose second album is one of...

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