Echoes Magazine

Echoes, which began as Black Echoes, is a monthly publication focused on soul, jazz, R&B, hip hop, and reggae music. It started as a weekly newspaper in 1976 and later rebranded to Echoes. In 2000, it transitioned from a weekly format to a monthly magazine.

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APRIL 2025 ISSUE

2 weeks ago | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the April 2025 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… Remarkably last year marked the 20th anniversary of West London girl Estelle’s debut album The 18th Day, a release that saw the young rapper/singer dubbed the UK’s answer to Lauryn Hill and earnt her a MOBO Best Newcomer gong to boot.
FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE

2 months ago | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the February 2025 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… Contrary to belief in some quarters, changes in personnel within music groups aren’t actually an unusual thing. In fact, line-ups that don’t change over time are the anomaly. In the end, ambitions, priorities and perspectives can become misaligned, and people want different things out of life.
NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE

Dec 13, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the November 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… When last we spoke with Amy Steele – in 2018 – she was working on a debut EP that wasn’t quite complete and in the end never came out. Yes, as ever, you can thank COVID for that: by the time she’d approached finishing it, the world had closed down and everything changed.
OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE

Nov 14, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the October 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… The creative tension between small groups and big bands has been a defining feature of jazz. Each format has its advantages and disadvantages, and many artists move liberally between the two. So it is with Samara Joy, the 24-year-old singer who has already bagged Grammys in her short career and headlines at concert halls the world over.
SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE

Oct 17, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the September 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… When percussionist Sola Akingbola was put forward to join Jamiroquai back in 1994, he played a tape of his rhythm mastery to Jay Kay that made the cat in the hat think about tricks on his mind. “He was like, ‘How many people are on there?’ He thought that it sounded like four people,” Akingbola says with a smile.
AUGUST 2024 ISSUE

Aug 8, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the August 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… Some of you might not know it but Jake Isaac is about to release the fourth album of his career.
JULY 2024 ISSUE - Echoes Magazine

Jul 11, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

History is a delicious paradox in hip-hop. New quickly becomes old, but what happened in the blessed back in the day never seems to go away. The question is what the now-and-then references might mean to present and past. So, when Common drops the following rhymes on Dreamin’, the opening track on The Auditorium Vol.1, his collaboration with Pete Rock, those of a certain age may crack the broadest of smiles in recognition while those of another pull the blankest of blank stares in indifference.
JUNE 2024 ISSUE - Echoes Magazine

Jun 6, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

When Jordan Rakei was 11 years old, he was gifted a keyboard from a neighbour. After spending months on end mucking around on it, he set himself the goal of learning how to play properly. It was once he got hold of a Stevie Wonder song sheet that his determination truly made a solid bond with his ambition and he didn’t look back.
APRIL 2024 ISSUE

Apr 11, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the April 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… The Cadogan Hall locates just off London’s Sloane Square and on a Friday evening, midway through March, Lizz Wright is in total command thereof. Behind and a little to the left of her sits Marvin Sewell, his bluesy slide guitar and air of effortless calm ever at her beck and call.
FEBRUARY 2024 ISSUE

Feb 15, 2024 | echoesmagazine.co.uk | Chris Wells

A sneaky peek of just some of what is in the February 2024 issue – OUT NOW!Click to buy this issue and read more… The story of Carol Hatchett, the real-life singer, dancer and performer behind Bella Brown, the persona at the focal point of funky soul band Bella Brown & The Jealous Lovers, is one of dreams allied to determination.