Just because this is The Jazz Issue doesn’t mean we don’t have an issue with jazz. Off Licence Magazine Issue Sixteen is not the chin-scratching issue — it’s the finger-clicking, barrier-breaking one.

Across 106 pages, the independent Brighton-based magazine takes on jazz as a word, a sound, and a spirit — less about counting notes, more about movement, improvisation and community. The issue features two covers, with Venna and Kokoroko fronting each side, meeting in the middle as the magazine flips halfway through.

As Kokoroko put it, this issue celebrates Wonderful Black Music — expansive, joyful and alive. Inside, Offie Mag explores what jazz means now: musically, culturally and socially.

Features include Venna, Kokoroko, Emma-Jean Thackray, Tomorrow’s Warriors, and Allexa Nava, with further contributions from Coco Maria, Haseeb Iqbal, Tina Edwards, and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, alongside photography and words from Offie Mag’s in-house team and a rotating cast of new writers and image-makers.

As ever, Off Licence Magazine blends sharp writing, humour and original design with a documentary eye on underground music and culture — spanning the UK, Cuba, and beyond.