MEDIA COVERAGE 2019
Metro (1.5m) 5th July 2019
The Times (401k) 7th July 2019
Daily Mirror (500k) 5th July 2019
The Times (417k) 8th March 2019
Uncut August 2019
Jazzwise July 2019
Jazzwise July 2019
The Sunday Times (708k) 26th May 2019
Evening Standard (865k) March 8th 2019
OK! magazine (150k) April 10th 2019
The i newspaper July 4th 2019
The Telegraph 2nd July 2019
BBC Radio 6Music 3rd May 2019
Love Supreme Jazz Festival plug at 2hrs in
BBC Radio 4 26th May 2019
Judi Jackson session starts at 26 mins 50 secs (Love Supreme Jazz Festival plug from 33mins 45 secs in)
BBC Radio 6Music 11th June 2019
Sampa The Great’s performance at Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was plugged at 16 minutes in.
BBC Radio 2 22nd June 2019
Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was plugged at 1hr 27m 25s and 1hr 32m 30s.
BBC Radio 6Music 11th June 2019
Sampa The Great’s performance at Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was plugged at 17 minutes 51 seconds in.
BBC Radio 1Xtra 22nd January 2019
Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 and Lauryn Hill plug at 1:39:45.
BBC Radio 6 Music 28th January 2019
Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 and Lauryn Hill plug on Mary Anne Hobbs 6Music show at 36:00.
BBC Radio 2 9th April 2019
Jamie Cullum mentioned Laura Mvula and Kamaal Williams co-headlining Love Supreme At The Roundhouse on Saturday 13th April – 00:11:43
BBC 1Xtra - Ace June 30th 2019
Ace discusses his plans to visit the Love Supreme Jazz Festiva this weekend
BBC Radio 3 27th June 2019
Theon Cross’ performance at Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was plugged at 1:10:50.
BBC Radio London 16th June 2019
Jumoké Fashola interviewed Theon Cross ahead of his performance at Love Supreme Festival 2019 – 2:48:15
BBC Radio 3 6th July 2019
Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was plugged at 13:53 seconds in.
Jazz FM 15th June 2019
Madeline Peyroux was interviewed on Nigel Williams’ Jazz FM Breakfast show, where her performance at Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 was discussed.
BBC Radio London – Robert Elms March 20th 2019
ITV1 – The Sara Cox Show May 4th 2019
BBC South East Today June 10th 2019
Jamie Cullum is interviewed on BBC South East ahead of his show at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival in Glynde
Blues & Soul Issue 1040 – January 2019
Jazzwise January 2019
Jazzwise February 2019
Brighton Argus (10k) 29th June 2019
Latest Brighton 24th June 2019
Viva Magazine June 2019
The Brighton Argus (14k) November 21st 2018
Brightons Finest December 2018
Brighton Argus January 23rd 2019
The Brighton Argus April 26th 2019
Portsmouth News June 28th 2019
Kent Messenger June 30th 2019
The Brighton Argus June 28th 2019
Eastbourne Herald May 20th 2019
Sussex Express May 20th 2019
Brighton Argus 6th July 2019
Sussex Express July 1st 2019
Brighton Argus July 10th 2019
Morning Star 11th July 2019
Jazzwise 8th July 2019
The Voice 15th July 2019
Brighton & Hove News 11th July 2019
BBC Sussex 7th March 2019
Allison Ferns interviewed Barney Dufton ahead of Love Supreme Festival 2019. 3 hours 38 minutes 10 seconds onwards.
Heart 22nd January 2019
The 405 22nd January 2018
Crack 22nd January 2019
Timeout London 14th February 2019
Echoes 7th March 2019
Clash 7th March 2019
Jazzwise 7th March 2019
Jazzis 15th March 2019
BBC Music 22nd January 2019
Evening Standard 22nd January 2019
I am Hip Hop 22nd January 2019
NME 22nd January 2019
The 405 22nd January 2019
Jazzwise 4th July 2019
Echoes November 2018
Jazz Journal November 2018
London Jazz News 21st November 2018
Jazzwise 12th December 2018
Clash 12th December 2018
Echoes 12th December 2018
eFestivals 12th December 2018
Udiscovermusic 12th December 2018
Stereoboard 22nd January 2018
Festicket 22nd January 2018
Music Talkers 22nd January 2019
Toxin Magazine 22nd January 2019
Ultimate Festival Guide 22nd January 2019
Flavourmag 23rd January 2019
Festival Kidz 6th February 2019
Bandcamp 12th February 2019
Theon Cross interview with Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 mentioned, 48:00 minutes.
London Jazz News 7th March 2019
B&S 7th March 2019
eFestivals 7th March 2019
Stereoboard 7th March 2019
Udiscovermusic 7th March 2019
Festicket 2nd January 2019
Music-News 8th March 2019
Red Bull 13th March 2019
Buzz Radio 18th March 2019
Barney Dufton was interviewed on Buzz Radio, discussing Love Supreme Festival 2019.
Festicket 21st January 2019
Stereoboard.com 22nd January 2019
Jazz FM 22nd January 2019
UDiscoverMusic 8th April 2019
Sheer Luxe 11th April 2019
More Radio News 25th April 2019
More Radio announced full line up for Love Supreme 2019
Everything Is Noise 14th May 2019
Jazz FM 7th June 2019
Music News 15th June 2019
What Tom Writes 18th June 2019
The Edge 13th June 2019
The Edge 22nd June 2019
Stylus Vinyl June 2019
Rhythm Passport 2nd July 2019
Entertainment Music 8th July 2019
Belfast Telegraph 8th July 2019
London Jazz News 9th July 2019
London Jazz News 8th July 2019
Brighton Argus 8th July 2019
Sussex Express 22nd January 2019
Brighton and Hove Independent 21st November 2018
Sussex Express 12th December 2018
Brighton & Hove Independent 22nd January 2018
Eastbourne Herald 22nd January 2019
Brightons Finest 22nd January 2019
The Brighton Magazine 22nd January 2019
Brighton & Hove News 23rd January 2019
Absolute Magazine 1st February 2019
Sussex Express 7th March 2019
Chichester Observer 7th March 2019
Brighton & Hove News 7th March 2019
West Sussex Gazette 7th March 2019
The Argus 22nd January 2019
Sussex Jazz Magazine 25th April 2019
The Brighton Source 5th June 2019
Kent Online 13th June 2019
Absolute Magazine 18th June 2019
Irish News 8th July 2019
Sussex Jazz Magazine July 2019
Sussex Jazz Magazine July 2019
Love Supreme Festival Guide 1
SJM July 2019
Sussex Jazz Magazine May 2019
Tell us a bit about the trio that you’re bringing to the UK for Love Supreme Festival. It’s actually a new configuration. Yasushi Nakamura on bass, I’ve played with him a number of times and people who have seen us in Europe know us. He’s not new but the drummer, for this tour, is Clarence Penn. He’s an absolutely amazing drummer, composer, arranger. He’s originally from Detroit, Michigan and he’s played with so many different people throughout the years, so he’s no stranger to Europe and the tour life. He’s worked with Ellis Marsalis, Diana Krall, Cyrus Chestnut to name just a few. He’s a wonderful musician and I’m really excited having him play my music and to be touring with him.
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Exactly, exactly. It’s all vocabulary. It’s all a language, so there’s going to be some similarities. There’s going to be some of the lines or rhythms or certain things that we’ve heard throughout jazz’s history, that’s just because of how the language has developed. And that’s ok. That’s what I tell my students. It is okay to regurgitate at one point because you have to learn the language, you have to learn how to speak and greet people in order to have a conversation. So in order to do that you have to learn the language. In the learning process, learn the language, learn the way to greet each musician, to greet the music. And then once you learn how to do that, then you can develop how you want to greet the music in your own way. So I think it takes both. In terms of your own playing. How do you manage to express who you are, through the music? I just get up there and play! I express myself the way anybody does. You just start talking. You just start playing from the heart, and playing from the soul. As long as it’s honest, that’s the best policy. How does someone get to be as good as you? I don’t think it’s how to get as good as me. I think it’s how do you express yourself. I’m a very expressive person on stage. I’ve been doing it for so long. The real answer is just practice. Do practice, but also be yourself. I don’t think that anyone is better than anyone else, I think it’s just how you 22
SJM July 2019
In terms of the music, will it be new material, or from your last two albums? It’ll be a mixture. I’m currently writing some new music. I’m trying to go into the studio in the fall, so I’m just coming up with some more material, and then hopefully by the European tour we’ll start to play some of that, test it out and see what people think, along with music from my last few records. Wherever the music leads us, really. You’ve toured Europe quite a bit in the past few years. Have you found any differences between American audiences and European ones? American audiences have a different appreciation for the music. It’s music that they’re sort of familiar with, because it’s American music, and the
way that I play it, it’s from American roots, so a lot of things are familiar to American audiences. But European audiences absolutely love it, because it’s fairly new. It’s old but new, it’s a different experience, it’s fun. It’s fun all around. I don’t really think there’s a major difference for me. My thing is that if you love music then you enjoy yourself, you just have a good time. And no matter where we play, we’re always having a good time. I don’t know if you read Downbeat’s recent interview with Branford Marsalis. He talks about a lot of improvisers regurgitating. As an improviser, how do you break away from doing that? I haven’t seen that interview but, you know, it’s like learning words. The more languages you speak, the more different ways in which you can express yourself. The more music you know, the more you get away from playing the same old licks and vocabulary, because now you’ve developed vocabulary. I believe that’s what Branford is saying, which is something that I’m always striving to do. I’m always listening to so many different things, to broaden my vocabulary, broaden my language in music, so that way, when I do improvise and play, it’s coming from so many different sources. But also it’s coming from sources that I’ve experienced so it’s all, ultimately, me. What Branford said reminded me of something that Chick Corea said, “Only play what you hear, if you don’t hear it, don’t play it”. SJM July 2019
express yourself, and the vibrations between people. I resonate with certain people, and then certain people I don’t resonate with, which is okay. I think that’s true with everybody, whether you’re a musician or not. Every person in the world has certain frequencies that we resonate with, and some things that we really, really feel, and some things that we really don’t. I’m just lucky enough that people feel my frequency…and I practice. Tell us a bit about how the future is lining up, in terms of what you’ve got planned. I’m doing a lot of touring, a lot of producing this year. A lot of different records for people. I’m doing a lot of writing. I write music for all different types of artists, so I’m doing a lot of different collaborations this year,