Jazzwise Publications Limited
Jazzwise Publications Limited was a UK-based specialist jazz music publisher and education company. It was founded in 1984 as a mail-order company promoting jazz and improvisation through catalogues and short courses and workshops for musicians. Jazzwise had three main areas of interest: Jazzwise Education, which runs an annual Summer School for jazz musicians; Jazzwise Direct, which publishes and sells sheet music, books, software and other music-related items; and Jazzwise, the biggest-selling jazz magazine in Britain. The Jazzwise brand and Jazzwise magazine were acquired in February 2013 by MA Business & Leisure, a division of Mark Allen Group. The Jazzwise Education and Jazzwise Direct brand were retained by the original owner and renamed SendMeMusic. Jazzwise education Jazzwise Education ran the Jazzwise Summer School nearly every year from 1984 to 2011. The course was originally located at Goldsmiths' College, but moved to Richmond in 1995. The Director of the Jazzwise Summer School was the noted US jazz educator Jamey Aebersold, and the teaching faculty included around twenty prominent US and UK jazz educators. Over 1,500 students attended the Jazzwise Summer Schools. These included amateur and professional musicians from the UK and around the world, who played typical jazz instruments such as trumpet,